There Are many shades

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There are many shades of hearing loss. Some can do just fine with hearing aids some cannot. Some do so well with CI's that you would not know they are deaf unless they told you, and some people with CI's might just be able to improve their lip reading. No one is the same so you cant generalize, CI's are implanted from what I understand on an individual basis and their success or failure evaluated the same way.
 
Exactly. As my audiologist said, you might hear better with CI, you might hear worse with CI. You however can never go back to HAs!
 
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Exactly. As my audiologist said, you might hear better with CI, you might hear worse with CI. You however can never go back to HAs!
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Show me the people that perform worse with a CI than they did with their hearing aids. You constantly say that and never have anything to back it up.
 
I don't have stats here to back this upcoming statement, but I will say that my CI audi told me 4% of all CI implantees end up with worse hearing than before a CI. IMO 4% isn't too bad, though, and I'm not sure what it is that made those 4% do worse. She gave me those stats just as fair warning. (She said their stats showed that 90% of all CI implantees surveyed said they experienced better hearing, but realistically, in the form of an audiogram, the number was 96%. So 6% don't feel like they improved, even if they did. But 4%, audiogram-wise, actually did worse.) That survey may have only been done at their CI center, and not nationwide, however.
 
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The thing about cochlear implants other then the fact as a result of the surgery you are now permanently deaf is the fact that for a lot of people it can take months to adjust to them. Constant changing of programs in order to hear makes me wonder what people do about their jobs as they are trying to adjust.
 
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