Thanks for sharing your story. Don't ya hate it when others try to pressure/force CI on others? I know CI is a choice but no one should force it on others!
An audie may causally mention CIs but no one has the right to push CIs on anyone. I would be fine if my audies said "some profoundly deaf people find CIs benefit them" then if I was interested, I would do my own research. But no audie can say "you really need to go out right now and get CIs!" If someone was against CIs, they can have written in their medical files "NO CIs" like was done with someone I read about. The audies would view his medical files and not even mention CIs because they know he's simply not interested.
Again, I never said I am against CIs, only that I am against CIs being forced on anyone and I made this thread to state the point that audies need to back off! That's the problem we all see. CIs were forced on him and it upset him!
This is not what this thread was about! Please re-read it. The issue I was discussing is CIs were forced on him and his audie even "cheated" to make his hearing worse than it was as to trick him into getting CIs. He's not dumb and saw thru this but was still offended by his audie playing tricks like that. I wanted to let others know to beware if their own audiologist attempted any tricks like that!
You will notice that ive said nothing against CIs to you or anyone. I know you want CIs, I know you are paying for them, that's your choice alone. Good luck!
Show me where did I ever say I was against CIs. I am only against CIs being forced on people like VamPyroX.
I never pushed you or anyone away from CIs. If you read my other replies to you, I agreed 100% with everthing you said. I never once said youd benefit from a HA. You already shared your long story and I carefully read your story and I understood 100%. I know what a 115db loss is like and I understand personally what it's like not to hear high frequencies. You don't hear even low frequencies! That's why you stopped wearing HAs! Again, if my hearing got as bad as yours, id get CIs for myself! How can I be against CIs then?
Show me where I said any of you are dumb. I am not a rude person! I was pointing out that some audiologists lack ethics and have the right to explain such cases. If anyone is offended by me pointing out that some audiologists lack ethics, fine let those audiologists serve you, it's your choice I don't care. I am avoiding those audiologists and that's my choice. Nowhere was I rude!
That is good for anyone that takes CIs seriously. I respectfully disagree with anyone who buys into the hype but I would never be rude! I am not pushing people away from CIs, only providing facts so they can be informed. I am happy when people give me facts about anything and let me decide myself. No one can decide for me, but everyone has the right to give me the facts!
I have the right to refuse to be part of an insurance plan or company that approves CIs(and other non life-saving) surguries willy-nilly. I do not want to subsidize their decisions with my money via higher insurance premiums! But if that person pays 100% of the cost of CI(or any other surgery) out of pocket, you are right it does not affect me at all. As long as people's decisions do not affect me or cost me money for nothing, I don't care!
If I were a CI surgeon, it would be my right to turn down some that want CIs. Ive read about people with moderate HL being turned down by surgeons, well there was one who was turned down by insurance but his surgeon agreed because he was paying 100% of the cost out of pocket and signed a waiver stating the surgeon is not to be held liable if he hears worse with CI than HA. He got lucky and ended up hearing a little better with CI and that made him happy. Fine, that was his choice and it didn't cost me nor insurance anything.
In her better ear, she has 10-20db more hearing in the mid frequencies than in her worse ear. I made her above audiogram in paint on her slightly worse ear. She was not wearing the best HAs, I know this because my aided scores will be better than hers. I really wish I had her audiogram, I would hear so much better with my HAs! The blue dots are the best possible aided scores, of which hers were way below. The red dots is her unaided hearing. She actually hears some sounds unaided while I am deaf without HAs. I really wish I could hear some sounds unaided!
But anyway she was scoring 95% on an online speech comphrension test while I scored a 72%(which is still way above the 40% maximum for CI) so I know well that her huge boost in the low frequencies is making that difference. We both lack high frequency hearing, however I really wish I had her low frequency hearing as id hear so much better as well as understand alot more speech like she is! I really, really, really wish her luck with her CI(She's a nice lady) but would have been curious to know how well she would have done with the best HAs that she never tried!
This is my audiogram I created in paint of my better ear. Her worse ear is so much better than my better ear! My worse ear is like 5db worse in the mid frequencies and I doubt I can hear 2000Hz. The blue dots is the best I will ever hear aided, but doesn't mean ill achieve those aided scores. My audiologist is going to try however when he reprograms my HAs.
