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Anyone ever had to sneeze or blow your nose within a week or two after CI surgery? My surgery was a week ago, and I just blew my nose, meaning to do so very softly; however, I probably blew somewhat more forcefully than intended. Yes I know they say <i>not</i> to blow your nose for three...

To anyone who's interested in responding: has CI hearing motivated you to go out to pursue more challenging goals and accomplishments? Are you now intentionally putting yourself in situations that would have been daunting in the past? For those who work, how about your career? Has the CI...

A sound quality question for CI users: Do things sound more "basic" or "simplified" with an implant as compared to the way they were previously experienced as a hard-of-hearing individual with a hearing-aid? Or, do CIs truly allow for sound perception that is deep, multi-layered, and...

I am of the opinion that this forum ought to be split into two separate forums - a hearing aid forum and a cochlear implant forum. Certainly, both are electronic devices that bring improvements to hearing, but they are radically different in every other way. If this idea has already been...

If anyone here has had a chance to have a few conversations on an iPhone using a CI, how was the sound quality? I chatted on a floor model iPhone using my hearing aid back before it declined last summer and decided at the time that its sound quality was plenty adequate, but of course, that was...

Greetings from Seattle. Let me see if I can introduce myself without getting too wordy... I was born severely/profoundly hard-of-hearing (maternal rubella). I've worn a hearing-aid on my left since age 4, and was fortunately able to enjoy relatively decent hearing most of my life. Relying...