late deafened with CI?

Alicia<

Yes, I do find the hearing aid more staticky. I also find that with the hearing aid speech sounds lower pitched. Several times the batteries in my CI went dead while I was talking to my Mom and her voice sounded like it dropped a couple of octaves. Kind of freaky IMHO. Also speech discrimination dropped big time.
 
Ahh hmm interesting..I figured since ha only amplifies and CI doesn't ... thanks for answering..anyone else can still answer too:) and haha love jenny and her humor
 
For what its worth, I have an interpreter that has a sudden loss of hearing in one ear. She loved her profession and decided CI was the best route to go.

She currently does not wear the CI and says that it was the worst decision of her life. Says the sounds in that ear was just not right at all.

Anything more, I wouldnt know.
 
posts from hell said:
For what its worth, I have an interpreter that has a sudden loss of hearing in one ear. She loved her profession and decided CI was the best route to go.

She currently does not wear the CI and says that it was the worst decision of her life. Says the sounds in that ear was just not right at all.

Anything more, I wouldnt know.
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That's a perfect description of a person who did not put enough effort and time into the CI. Nothing sounds right at first. It's a different way of hearing so of course things won't sound right to someone who had a sudden loss of hearing. Because "Natural hearing" was so recent to them. It takes time, patients and effort to keep working with it. I've only had mine a short time and I can already tell it's starting to sound more natural to me.

Reminds me of people I see who walk around with no teeth because their false ones bothered them and didn't take the time to adjust to them. So they just stopped wearing them.

Ron
 
Some people do the same thing with hearing aids cuz it sounds different a bit at first too. I don't believe that someone who gets something so expensive should give up so easily on it and not work hard at hearing ....boggles my mind actually that they usually fight for insurance and then some ppl give up wearing it
 
yes, I promise you, as a hearing aid wearer all her life, that your brain will adjust to those funny sounds and it will sound normal. it also take some mapping as well.
 
Oooh, ooh. That's me alright. I was hearing for the first 16 years of my life and deafned totally 4 years ago, I now have a CI.

I can't say this is much different from hearing most of the time, except when it gets noisy then the CI isn't good enough to distinguish where the noise is coming from. Talking to people who have had hearing previously then got a CI, I think it is easier to adapt to hearing "speach" because they have heard it previously.

I had a HA for like a week and it didnt work, a CI means you can "hear" a HA just amplifies.

Hope that helps!
 
AliciaM said:
Some people do the same thing with hearing aids cuz it sounds different a bit at first too. I don't believe that someone who gets something so expensive should give up so easily on it and not work hard at hearing ....boggles my mind actually that they usually fight for insurance and then some ppl give up wearing it
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...:iough:
 
Hey Alicia, My postition is very different to you as I was born profoundly deaf, I got my CI at 30. I had HA's for 28 years it was funstrating trying to get the best out of it, I had problems understanding people, I thought i could understand them well (the assessment for CI tells different story) because of my speech they assumed i was hearing well in fact i only get few environmental sounds, no speech, no clear sounds etc. When i recieved my CI after alot of adjustments (CI comes with hard work) to make sure I am hearing "correctly" as I never heard many of the sounds before. Roll on 18 months, I held conversation with my mum on the phone, the phone line was dodgy as she lives up in the mountians in Austria, when I call her I could tell the difference between her, dad and the german answerphone! I would have never achieved this without sweat, tears, and sheer determination.

I would Never know what natrual hearing is but i say that the CI wins hands down over hearing aid.



Ps, Love Jenny's posts, reminded me of certain person beings with D
 
lmao hahahaha I wasn't gearing that towards you jenny hahaha but I know you are a tricky one when it comes to wearing your hearing aids you bad girl lol...i will tell E on you! plus you communicate mostly in ASL so to wear your hearing aids at least sometimes is good :)

Overthepond- This is what I thought as well...and with the CI evaluation how does it go in terms of the audiogram? Is it similar to a regular audiogram or no? I still get frustrated with even small group settings...group being like 2 people including myself if there are more than 2 ppl I am very confused like today i had noooooo idea what was going on lol cuz soo many people were talking. The phone no longer appeals to me much anymore either ...i get angry lol and end up making my friends or my mom call for me...
 
AliciaM said:
BAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA LMFAO OMG Jenny...I think you are TOTALLY right...I SHOULD get stemcells..and yes i think the CI BRAIN surgery may be too risky and that I should go to another country where I don't know the language and let them go at me :)
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This is not brain surgery. It's behind on ear through the above of ear canal inner to cochlea.
 
AliciaM said:
lol we know pinky we were making a joke lol we know its not brain surgery:)
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LoL okay. My deaf friends thought it from brain surgery. I was alike NOOOOO!!!! They got misinformation about CI surgery. :roll:
 
Pinky said:
This is not brain surgery. It's behind on ear through the above of ear canal inner to cochlea.
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They are joking with each other..I could see it right off the bat. Sometimes, you gonna read between the lines.
 
shel90 said:
They are joking with each other..I could see it right off the bat. Sometimes, you gonna read between the lines.
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I have a moment of intense sarcasm...Shel is right. No brain surgery beliefs here and I don't support stemcells from China ;-)
 
I guess I had the typical reaction to getting my hearing aids. "Yeah, nice and all, but everything is SO LOUD. GET THESE PLASTIC THINGS OUT OF MY EARS!" It took a couple months to get used to wearing them, and probably a good 8 months before I wouldn't feel them. That's the weird thing. Now I have to touch my ears to remember that they're still there, because I'm so used to wearing them. Today I hadn't put them in yet, and someone was trying to talk to me. I kept saying "What?" after every sentence, so he looked at me and said "You didn't put in your hearing things yet, did you?" Me- Um. Not really. I can tell the difference in volume, I guess, just not feeling. It's so different now. I remember just getting them, thinking I'd never get used to them.
 
I remember when I first got mine I was literally in awe at all the sounds I was missing and this was when my loss was only mild/moderate and I was only unilaterally amplified. My audi says I have way better voice control with my ha's on lol she said its crazy shes like one minute ur like reallyyyyy loud and as soon as ur ha's are on ur voice goes back to normal haha...this is when she's programming then and they are both off or even one..lol i talk very loud without my hearing aids in ...i still say what a lot after sentences even with the damn things in hahahha
 
haha...oh loudness perception. Im okay in 1-1 situations, but throw me in a restaurant and i start shouting.. my friends have to tell me to stop ;) lol
*EQL*
 
evil_queen_lisa said:
haha...oh loudness perception. Im okay in 1-1 situations, but throw me in a restaurant and i start shouting.. my friends have to tell me to stop ;) lol
*EQL*
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I wonder if we were inadvertantly screaming at each other the other day...:giggle:
 
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