H/A vs. C/I

[jillio]

HA is not help me to hear better. I have a hard to learn speak many times. I can't hear my voice. I has 90% deaf. I have 2 HA. I can hear a sound but not recognize the word in my brain. I am going to get a CI in few years later. I have a frustrate to learn speak and hear. I decide to get CI.

You will still have to train your brain to recognize sounds with a CI. It will not produce immediate understanding, but will require time and effort.

 

[D-neen]

I guess CIs are good for people who value being able to hear speech and HAs for those who dont give a rat's ass. LOL! I am severely profoundly deaf and wear hearing aids and dont understand speech with them but fully understand environmental sounds and because I dont care for understanding speech without lip-reading, CIs are not for me. HAs are working for me.

U GO GIRL! ME TOOO THE SAME !~DANEEN

 

[Pinky]

I can't wait to get marry.

well good luck

I hope the whole process goes quickly and you're approved once you get under your fiance's insurance after you get married.

and congrats on the upcoming wedding.

 

[jag]

sorry, but that's YOUR experiance.Someone else with a simlair loss, could be pretty much "almost hearing" with has. You're assuming that CIs are always better then has. That's not nessarily true. It's a fact that people's experiances with has, are very very indivdual.

Here let me repeat

"If someone really 'wants' to continue to struggle by lip reading and Ha's by all means should be their choice. Beyond that if they choose to go with a CI I wish them the best at getting the coverage they need to pay for it. I will not draw a line for them, no one should have to struggle with the limited experience of HA's if they can get a CI."

I believe this started with you saying something like people should trial different aides to see if they work. Face it if you or anyone else using hearing aides (including myself when I did) did not struggle we wouldn't have to have the mutual gripe sessions that occur here when people who hear normally don't understand that HA's really don't do all they seem to think they do. Whatever 'I' decide for myself should be between me and my drs and the insurance company.

Oh and good luck with your new aides. I hope you really do get whatever it is you want from them.