How old were you all when you got your first HA's CI?

overthepond said:
My mum knew i was born profoundly deaf on the day i was born, I was the only newborn who slept through the fire alarm, Diagnoised at 9 months with alot of conflicts with the docs! I just had very good eyesight thats why, didn't get Box until i was 2. This was in 1980. My parents had to fight for them. The first box wasn't doing much so they bought the Phonic ear box which was very good but i hated wearing them.

My Parents had hard time trying to get the best for me.
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My parents noticed I had a hearing loss when I was two. But the doctors insisted on doing all sorts of surgery on my ears, and it wasn't until I was nine, and severely deaf, before they would give up and just give me a hearing aid, and even then it took 18 months to get it. That was the NHS in the 1970s.
 
Bottesini said:
I met someone else who had a diagnosis that got changed to "Autistic Behaviors due to hearing loss"

I have kind of wondered if that is not actually the case with me too, even though I didn't get rid of the original diagnosis.
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When my hearing loss was discovered, my diagnosis was changed to "hearing impaired".

Actually the pre school screening, is the one that said that nothing is wrong with me. Just can not hear. School recommended my mom to take me to the audiologist and ENT.

After I got my HAs. I started talking. Took a lot of speech therapy.
 
My friend's mother was told she had behavioural problems, her hearing loss wasnt diagnosed until she was 2.

I think if I was a normal term baby my mum would have noticed a lot sooner but with me being born premature and not being home till I was 3 months and all the problems with my sister, so she started suspecting when I was around 7 months old i guess
 
I was a little over a year old when I got my first set of hearing aids, why did it take so long? My parents noticed something odd with my hearing when I was 4 weeks old. They took me to countless doctors which they (doctors) claimed that I was just "using all my strength in my muscles to turn over, prop my head up, sit up so it was affecting my hearing a tiny bit." Lame huh?

Then, finally got my cochlear implant on my left ear when I was 13 years old. Still have a HA in my right.
 
Interesting stories. Let me add more details to mine.

My parents noticed something was "wrong" with my hearing when I was like 2 months old. I don't understand how they could tell. At 4 months I got my first HA and it took another month before I responded to environmental sounds. Ive upgraded HAs every several years. If we can find any of my old analogs and if they still work, id be curious to see what I hear with it, especially above 1000Hz. With those digitals, I usually can't even hear 1500Hz. It's strange since I hear 1000Hz from across the room, yet 1500Hz is usually inaudible!
 
I used to sleep through anything and anyway. Originially my mother thought i had narcoplesy and also nothing waked me up

Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder (a dyssomnia) characterized by overwhelming drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep. The condition is most characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), in which a person experiences extreme tiredness and possibly falls asleep during inappropriate times, such as at work or school. A narcoleptic will most probably experience disturbed nocturnal sleep, which is often confused with insomnia, and disorder of REM or rapid eye movement sleep.
 
But that was in the past, now there's newborn hearing screening and also more hearing tests.
 
I am not sure exactly how old I was when my mom and the doctors realized I had a hearing loss but it may have been before I was even a year old, but I believe I got bodyworn HAs in both ears when I was 2 years old (1982) and then I switched to BTE HAs in both ears when I was 5 (1985). I put both HAs away for good when I was 10 as I no longer could get any benefit from them and kept losing them. I would ask my mother for more information but unfortunately she passed away in 1990.

I got a CI in my left ear when I was 26 years old in October of 2006. I do not wear a HA in my right ear as it is useless.
 
The newborn nursery physicians kept telling me Adam probably had fluid on his ear from the birth process, and that's why he was 'failing' his newborn testing. But I knew before he had the ABR done he wasn't hearing-- he never flinched when you'd make any noise near his ear... he also never cried when his foster brother did... which if you've ever worked in a daycare or had several kids together at a young age you know, if one cries typically they all cry~~ nope!

What surprised me was, he never 'failed' the newborn test on his right side and he has a loss on that side too... which makes me wonder if that's why there are still kids with later diagnosed deafness~~ if he hadn't totally failed the left side we never would've tested him w/the ABR... so how would we have known he had the loss on the right?? Until he was older... so how many kids are out there that could've been aided EARLIER on if there was some way to detect the moderate losses in the newborn screening???
 
djchur said:
My parents noticed I had a hearing loss when I was two. But the doctors insisted on doing all sorts of surgery on my ears, and it wasn't until I was nine, and severely deaf, before they would give up and just give me a hearing aid, and even then it took 18 months to get it. That was the NHS in the 1970s.
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What do you mean 'in those days'? They haven't changed at all. I want a tactaid 7 from them. It took several months to fix up an apointment. They recomended I have a CI. Wanted to clean the wax out of my ear and then fixed me with an apointment to discuss getting a tactaid 7 with another audiologist. The only reason I'm bothering with them is I can't order directly. I've been told I need to go through an audiolist. I'm worried that by the time they do get round to it the firm that makes them might have gone out of buisness.
 
DeafLissa90 said:
all the problems with my sister, so she started suspecting when I was around 7 months old i guess
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Was that the sister that died? Or does your other sister have problems too? Hope you don't me asking. I'm just curious.
 
I didn't have my first hearing aid until I was 11. My hearing loss was noticed when I was 4 but since it was only minor the audiologists didn't consider hearing aids were neccessary.
 
dreama said:
Was that the sister that died? Or does your other sister have problems too? Hope you don't me asking. I'm just curious.
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yes, my sister was in hospital until she died at 5 months old, me and my sister was discharged from our hospital at around 3 months old
 
DeafLissa90 said:
yes, my sister was in hospital until she died at 5 months old, me and my sister was discharged from our hospital at around 3 months old
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That must have been hard on your mom. What about you and your surving sister? Did you ever feel sad about her loss?
 
Yes, sure, Im always thinkin what she would have been like etc etc. the usual stuff
 
I received my first HA at 15. Hated it though, so I no longer wear it against the wishes of my parents. It was a digital CIC Siemens model from 1999 when the first digital aids were coming out. I have no idea where that HA is now. Lost it in the move from my rent house back to my parents house, just never went back for a replacement model.

However I do notice my hearing is deteriorating. I have a hard time hearing the customers at my job. Sometimes I won't even catch what they say and I'll just smile like a big doofus and tell them to have a nice day, LOL.

But I may go back soon to have an audiogram done.
 
I also received my first pair of hearing aids at age 15.

However, they were recommended for me at age 3 (as well as ear surgery), but for reasons I do not know, my parents' health insurance would not cover the cost.

As far as CIs are concerned, I received my first CI at age 34 and my second at age 35.
 
I received my HA when I was 3ish. I got my CI when I was 47. Both were for my right ear. I don't use my left ear.
 
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