Residual Hearing

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evil_queen_lisa

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Hi all,
I know that with CI you are told that you may loose all residual hearing. I'm just curious how much people here lost? Did you actually loose it all, or did some remain?

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*EQL*
 
My understanding is that due to the nature of the surgery you lose it all, in that ear, permanently.
 
I didnt have much residual hearing if any. None there is NONE in my ear, completely deaf
 
Hask12 no that is now not the case. They tell you that you CAN lose ALL residual hearing but a lot of surgeons have new techniques for putting in the electrodes and some ppl still have a lot of their residual hearing. There is a doctor apparently in DC that is excellent at this now and almost all his CI patients still have their residual hearing after surgery, just can't remember where I read this.
 
I'm curious if anyone out there has experienced this and if they could say what it sounds like. Do you hear both the signal from the CI and from your residual hearing at the same time? I guess maybe someone with an implant on only one side could answer this too.
 
Hask12 said:
My understanding is that due to the nature of the surgery you lose it all, in that ear, permanently.
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That's how I've always understood it too, which is why I have heard only profoundly deaf people are eligible.
 
AliciaM said:
Hask12 no that is now not the case. They tell you that you CAN lose ALL residual hearing but a lot of surgeons have new techniques for putting in the electrodes and some ppl still have a lot of their residual hearing.
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This is what I have heard too, which makes me curious. Perhaps only people who have more recently had the surgery would experience having both? (although like people said, you are only eligible with profound hearing loss).
*EQL*
 
I'm not 100% sure, but I thought that now they were also implanting children who are severely deaf and not considered to be benefiting from hearing aids.
 
I'm almost completely deaf in my left ear (my implanted ear) now and my loss was in the 80s at 250 hz and at 115 across all the other frequencies before I got implanted. I still can hear things but only very loud noises with my right ear. My right ear has always been my "dead" ear before I got my CI.
 
vaguely considering it. I'm not ready to go for a consult, but i'm still collecting info and asking questions. I'm waiting to hear how alicias appointment goes... we have similar stories!
*EQL*
 
Well my residual hearing wasn't of much use to me because I had severe recruitment that made it nearly impossible to wear my HA.


Sounds were so distorted in my right ear that I never could understand anything so my residual hearing was useless to me. I have not worn a HA over my right ear since I was 14. I'm 43 now.
 
CJB said:
That's how I've always understood it too, which is why I have heard only profoundly deaf people are eligible.
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Again, no. If you have a severe loss and low speech understanding, you can be a candidate.
 
My daughter's audiologist sees a child who retained enough of his residual hearing that he wears a CI and a HA in his implanted ear.
 
not very common, but then again, I don't know about current CI. I don't have any hearing left in my implanted ear. I tried hearing with my hearing aids and putting speaker close up to my ear. None. But in my unimplanted ear, I still can hear with my hearing aids and close up speakers with the volume on max.
 
If you have a severe loss and low speech understanding, you can be a candidate
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And sometimes people can get it by fudging around with the numbers. Or if they have severe recruitment, tintitus or other issues.
It might be a good idea, but then again you have to be careful that you're not being dazzled by " latest technology =better hearing" thinking.
(and I would tell you this if you were thinking about the latest digital aids)
If you're not a right off the bat canidate and you don't have any other circumstances I'd approach the idea of CI VERY carefully.
 
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