Originally Posted by deafdude1

Wow 115db loss, no wonder why you stopped wearing HAs, they ceased to become of any real use when there wasn't a measurable amount of residual hearing to amplify. My audiologist did say(and ive posted his sayings in other threads) that no HA in the world would touch a 120+ db loss since the UCL(uncomfortable level) would be reached before the threshold level. Basically by the time you give enough SPL to aid a 120db loss, youd be experiencing discomfort from so much sound pressure pushing against your ear drum.

Nowdays there appears to be too much hype about CIs giving people perfect speech and making them "hearing" Ive read older CI blogs before all the CI hype and recent blogs where people "hope" to hear like a hearing person and understand everything. I understand perfectly that CI is amazing for people like you but for those who benefit from a HA, I do not believe in CI. One lady was scoring 95% speech comphrension on the online speech test, yet she's still getting a CI. She became defensive when I tried to tell her that her expectations weren't realistic or how much benefit she got from HAs seeing she has only a moderate hearing loss(60db at 250Hz) even with my 75db loss at 250Hz(according to most audiograms) I still get decent benefit from HAs. You can search my past threads and read my blog to learn more.

24db average is great, seems like im seeing more and more people scoring better than 40db. Ive always been told that 40db was the average. I still read blogs where the ENT and surgeon says "expect 40db as a realistic expectation" so that's where I got the 40db average.

NR means no response. SRT, SAT is speech response and awareness. SD is speech discrimination. MLC, ULC is most and uncomfortable levels. I reach the UCL at 115-120db in the 1500Hz range. Unfortunately my HL also happens to be about that much so basically almost all my hearing comes from the low frequencies, I hear very little or nothing above 1250Hz.

CIs have been around since we were born so I don't understand all the hype. I am seeing people that benefit(or could) from the best HAs getting CI. I would pay the $50,000 cost to have the unaided audiogram they have rather than a CI.