Heath, I don't have CI but I think its very important to ask yourself WHY you want it.
CI can be great for those who have maxed out their hearing aids, or if you have an unaidable ear or severe recruitment or tintitus, or very low speech perception with HAs.
Are you prelingal? Not a doc or expert, but I'm wondering if maybe the sucesses with prelingal deaf adults may be due to : progressive loss, being able to have had exposure to sound for a while (even as a baby. It wouldn't be as good as having a postlingal or perilingal loss, but your brain would still remember how sound sounded) or being able to hear some stuff with HA. I wish you the best.....also if you haven't tried any high power hearing aids for a few years, I would trial those. Some of the newer HAs REALLY rock. But then again there are lots of losses that just don't respond to HA.