Hi all,
I was born with a bilateral severe hearing loss (60db in high frequencies and going down to 90db for the low frequencies - it's a reverse slope hearing loss). It was stable/non-progressive with 83db loss on average.
I've been a life-time hearing aid user and heard well enough to use the telephone depending on who was speaking and could chat to nearly everybody with relative ease and hear/understand the teachers/lecturers with minimal problems throughout my education.
I recently had an ear operation to widen the ear canal as narrow ear canals were causing a lot of feedback in both ears. The surgeon made a blunder and accidentally tore the eardrum with the drill which somehow resulted in a 120db mixed hearing loss in that ear.... ;/. I am now struggling to hear tremendously and i'm really wanting a cochlear implant but because of my other 'good' ear which has a severe loss (87db), I'm still not a candidate for an implant and I'm really at a loss of what to do as the surgeon won't provide me with any other alternatives to hear out of the other ear.
What I've now got hearing wise is not good enough and i'm now on meds for my depression at not being able to hear anymore. I'm thinking that because i do have some memory of sound in that ear, that i would be a good candidate for an implant. It's been 6 months since the op and I'm really not coping. Does anyone think I'd be a candidate for the implant?
I was born with a bilateral severe hearing loss (60db in high frequencies and going down to 90db for the low frequencies - it's a reverse slope hearing loss). It was stable/non-progressive with 83db loss on average.
I've been a life-time hearing aid user and heard well enough to use the telephone depending on who was speaking and could chat to nearly everybody with relative ease and hear/understand the teachers/lecturers with minimal problems throughout my education.
I recently had an ear operation to widen the ear canal as narrow ear canals were causing a lot of feedback in both ears. The surgeon made a blunder and accidentally tore the eardrum with the drill which somehow resulted in a 120db mixed hearing loss in that ear.... ;/. I am now struggling to hear tremendously and i'm really wanting a cochlear implant but because of my other 'good' ear which has a severe loss (87db), I'm still not a candidate for an implant and I'm really at a loss of what to do as the surgeon won't provide me with any other alternatives to hear out of the other ear.
What I've now got hearing wise is not good enough and i'm now on meds for my depression at not being able to hear anymore. I'm thinking that because i do have some memory of sound in that ear, that i would be a good candidate for an implant. It's been 6 months since the op and I'm really not coping. Does anyone think I'd be a candidate for the implant?
