Originally Posted by VamPyroX

I don't have CI, but I do have a lot of friends who have and had CI.

Some of them got CI, but stopped wearing them for the following reasons...

- overwhelming (born deaf, never experienced sounds)
- fragile (rough athlete; football, wrestling, mud tug, dodgeball, etc)
- harassment (by anti-CI deafies)
- lazy (replace battery, putting it on, putting it away, caring for it)
- quick taste (covered by insurance; nothing to lose)