Who has a CI the longest?

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Who do you know has a CI the longest? Anyone 10-20+ years?
 
interesting, I am getting the impression if we look at people with CI for a long time it can be observed that they are doing very well. Is there someone out there who has had a CI for 10+ years and had no benefit from it?
 
naisho said:
interesting, I am getting the impression if we look at people with CI for a long time it can be observed that they are doing very well. Is there someone out there who has had a CI for 10+ years and had no benefit from it?
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I know a few who has had a CI for 20+ years that has completely no benefit. They dont use it.

Rick, where are you from?
 
naisho said:
interesting, I am getting the impression if we look at people with CI for a long time it can be observed that they are doing very well. Is there someone out there who has had a CI for 10+ years and had no benefit from it?
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I know two people who have had CI for well over 10 years without benefit.
 
There is few I know had theirs 20+ years.

My childhood friend had hers 14 years (had it done at 19).

Few of my friends had theirs when they were 3 or thereabouts, they are now late teens to early twenties. All benefit it greatly although speaks well they still signs too.
 
I've had mine 10 years, quite a lot of my friends have had theirs 14+ years, we all benefit. A lot of my friends had their implants at 2-3, they are all over 23 now.
 
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I know a few who has had a CI for 20+ years that has completely no benefit. They dont use it.
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Really, what's up with that. 20 years is a long time to suddenly hop off the wagon and no benefits. Did they get implanted early or later on?
 
naisho said:
Really, what's up with that. 20 years is a long time to suddenly hop off the wagon and no benefits. Did they get implanted early or later on?
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probably older technology.

even if they been implanted over 20 years, they probably have a new implant if that happened (no benefit) by now. but I don't anything about older technologies.
 
naisho said:
Really, what's up with that. 20 years is a long time to suddenly hop off the wagon and no benefits. Did they get implanted early or later on?
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One had his implant at around 9, stopped in his teens. Other one was implanted when he was a toddler, stopped when he left his parents.
They still have the implant inside, but they just dont use it.

I know a few people who are using their implants these days and they say if it fails, they won't re-implant.

I also know the same for the opposite, it depends on people, really.
 
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