Recent content by Ernie / Ky

VA will not replace the N5 with the N6 until all stockpiles are gone...When warranty is out on all and Cochlear stops repairing the N5..about 10 years or maybe a little more. Then we will get the outdated N6 while the rest of America enjoys the N8. The N5 is the processor the VA started...

Strange thing...Have written Cochlear America before and never got an answer on my problems....Telling them I'll put myself cutting my implant out of my head and putting video on Youtube....Got an answer!...And yes....I can and will do it! VA Healthcare? LOL!...Its a Joke! Had a guy die...

I can only see a VA Audiologist, Due to being a Vet I have no other choices....Have had the Cochlear America rep come once and she was no better than the rest...she set it to what she thought I needed and refused to listen to me telling her it was too loud.

I have a Cochlear Americas N5 . I'm EX Military lost hearing being in Artillery and accidents over the years. My question is.... Anyone having trouble with their CI's and having Audiologist (From the Vets Administration in my case) Cranking the volume up ten times above comfortable and...

I got activated on my first CI about two weeks ago. The first week ...usually around 10 pm I'd get a headache and tinnitus....Hypersensitive hearing and would have to remove the processors a while. Now I only get tinnitus and it usually goes away after I lower the sensitivity and volume a bit.

Lost my hearing a very short time ago in the military...Have horrible scars everywhere.....Hey I dolled my processors up!....better people look at my processors than me! Trust me...they do look better than me!

Deaf US Army Vet here from Kentucky. Just got my first CI 4 days ago and feel like I've been beaten with a baseball bat LOL!