I Have A Question For People Who Wear Hearing Aids.

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sorry i was one of the off topic-ers! :topic:
Pleas forgive me from trying to deviate from the topic...my bad!:giggle:
 
john57 said:
Don't forget our battery sponsor here at Alldeaf.com you can get a trial package of same size batteries from different makes to see if different manufactures will make any difference in how long the battery lasts. In the past I gotten my batteries from Radio Shack since at the time they had the lowest prices better than supermarkets or even Walmart but I have not brought any batteries from Radio Shack in two years. I get some insurance benefit for my implant batteries and when the implant shuts down I can use those batteries in my hearing aids for a few days.

The trouble with implant batteries is that when the batteries go weak I get a five minute warning before the implant will shut down. The implant is designed to just turn off when the batteries voltage goes bellow a certain level to avoid issue with weak power causing havoc with your head. With one implant I have to deal with three old batteries and three fresh batteries. Sometimes the batteries start flying everywhere when I pull out the batteries out of the cage and I still can not find that one fresh battery that rolled under my car seat!:bowdown: When I go to concerts I will have a spare battery cage with fresh batteries standing by since I do not want to deal with six batteries in the dark with one implant when the batteries go. Still not a big deal with me. :wiggle::wiggle:
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My batteries in my implants will go dead without warning. I always bring spare batteries with me everywhere I go.. I don't like not being able to hear anything.

As for replacing batteries, I've given up explaining why I can't just run to the local drugstore and grab some batteries. Believe me, I would much prefer to do so..

My father wonders why I can't just pick up batteries from the local drug store for the implant. He think just because my audi said so, you can find the cochlear batteries in the drugstore, I should be able pick up my batteries from the local drug store - no matter how many times I remind him of the time we tried to find high power batteries in the drug store. As wonderful as my audi is, she was wrong on this one. Cochlear implants require high power batteries and only 50k of people in the USA have implants vs 28 million HA users. I know of no HA that require high power batteries for them. And he wonders why I can't find batteries for my implant in the local drug store?


They're the same size as my regular hearing aid batteries.. I tried wearing the hearing aid batteries in my implant but it sounded like i was trying to hear stuff while my batteries were going dead.

When I first got my implant, he'd ask me over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over: Do I know where to get new batteries until I felt like screaming at him "I KNOW WHERE TO GET THE @##$ BATTERIES!!!". He didn't think Alldeaf would have reliable info or links to battery sources. :roll:
 
In my humble and often rejected opinion, there's no real intent to troll here. We all get caught up in tangent thoughts.

However, the subject is "I Have A Question For People Who Wear Hearing Aids." The question is "Do you ever reach a point that you feel like you no longer want to wear your hearing aids? If so,tell why?"

When I was hard-of-hearing, the answer was yes!

Every day at the end of the day. I was forever having molds adjusted and new ones made, but my ears still hurt after 12-16 hours. I was weary of eye-rolling and the same stupid complaints about the noise they made that I couldn't hear.

Now that I'm totally deaf, I miss the remnants of some sounds, but I sure don't miss those #@&%#!! plastic stones in my ears!
 
I worn hearing aids all my life. The reason I stopped? Severe Tinnitus. So, I went ahead and got my 1st CI last May 17th, getting my 2nd CI May 8th. I loved my hearing aids as in they benefitted me well but ack, ear molds and stuff drove me nuts, espeically all these ear infections I had growing up! Now, I've not had a single ear infection since getting my CI. :)
 
I totally agree with your point about CI and HA between. I do disagree with person who respond you. It sound he is against CI. My HA is not helping me to hear or speak better. I am going to take a CI in few years later. I want to wait until I get marry and have an insurance from my new husband. I am happy for you to hear with CI. That's so amazing! My little cousin has 2 implants. It help him to hear a lot. He can speak on phone. I am surprise! I am exciting for him to hear. I want to hear with implant. I have a question for you. When you got your first implant. Do you wear HA with CI? Is that help or not? I heard HA is not help with CI. Everyone got second CI. My new husband said why not I could get 2 CI. I was alike "I never have any people who have CI." I found it out at alldeaf people do have 2 CI. I am glad to meet you guys. I am learning from you guys before I take implant. :)

R2D2 said:
Well, no one with a CI disagrees with that. :dunno:



I'm a CI wearer and I can assure you that you can take it off just like you can with a hearing aid :) I love the silence at nights and am not anxious to listen to my husband snoring :giggle: I also have a friend who never heard sounds before and then got a CI several years ago as an adult. The CI didn't work for him because his brain didn't know what to do with the sound, as he had never heard it before. So after a year, he stopped wearing the external processor. He doesn't have any regrets for having tried it and he doesn't need to have surgery to remove the internal implant.



Yes, I agree that every individual is different. Me, it was too painful to wear hearing aids due to the damage inside my ear and they gave me terrible tinnitus and dizziness. Getting a CI overcame that problem. Please do not assume that just because we have a CI, we don't accept ourselves as deaf people. There are many reasons why someone might go for a CI - a hearing aid may not even be a choice for us. They work differently.
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This thread is about hearing aids only. Please stay on topic. thank you.
 
I do disagree with you. This is your opinion about CI. It sound you're against CI for yourself. I don't mind to take a CI. I am not proud to be deaf myself. God have a plan for me to get implant. I do agree with CI person's post comment to you. I don't care about your age. I am 26 years old. Your friends or people told you about CI. May they got an OLD CI? This is new tech for CI. My little cousins has 2 implants. It helping him to hear a lot. He can speak on phone. He is only 5 half years old. I am happy for him to hear. I want to learn a sound for my ENGLISH. I wasn't happy about where I attend to deaf school. There is stink education. Many deaf people are lacking of English because they can't hear a sound. I had experience with deaf and hearing world between. I wish I would graduate from mainstream school in first place. Too late for me now! I screwed up my life through teachers and other deaf kids were cruel! I moved on my life. I am happy with my new hearing husband. I am still wear HA. But they're not 100% help me to hear. That's your decide to be rather wear HA. You can't criticize on people's CI. That's their decide not you. You don't need to believe deaf people's opinion about CI. You should to listen CI people's story about how it work and hear very helpful! Don't be DOUBT!

D-neen said:
TO R2D2 `
Well the reason I am opposing to CI because this doesn't make a deaf person to become a perfect hearing person . A deaf person will always be a deaf person. I was born deaf and now I will be 50 years old and still wears HA. I do speak orally and sign languages. HA is more easier than CI because you can take your hearing aid off when you need to. CI can't. If you want to remove CI .. do you have to go back to a surgery to remove CI completely? I have met 2 CI people I know they told me they are not happy with it. But I am still friend with 2 CI people . I just don't want for me to have CI. I am me that 's who I am and I accepted it . I have no problem wearing my hearing aid for years. Each indivaual are different young and old how they feels themselves.
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