I was just accepted for the Esteem implant and decided to go through with it. If you want, you can follow me at my blog Deaf & Awesome, I'm going to blog about all of it. I loved reading other blogs about the Esteem and so I'm doing it too. :)
I think this is probably it. I started getting ringing in my right ear as it lost more and more hearing, and I wasn't using a hearing aid in that ear anymore. In my left ear I always use a hearing aid and never had ringing in it.