SkullChick
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You're wrong!
Here's the hope, Cochlear America and Med-El have special split electrode array to push through the bony growth and if you have complete ossification surgeon can perform 2 cochleostomies to create hole at the basal and apical of the cochlea to insert split array in to get the access to get simulation sites!
Here's the link on special electrode array option on "special electrode designs"
Cochlear Implants
So if you have "dead ear" you never thought you could get CI or get any hearing, here's the option you can get now!
How do you get it?
Ask your current audiologist to perform hearing test in sound booth with and without hearing aid on, do speech test and then ask her/him to refer you to ENT or CI surgeon to discuss further about CI and then surgeon or ENT will order CT scan or MRI scan to see how much ossification you have to discuss some options or what he/she can do. And then after the testing they will declare if you are candidate or not and if you are they will schedule your surgery and then once you have the surgery you will have to go through recovery period usually 4 to 6 weeks before you get your CI activated.
CI activation expectation:
- most people experienced odd sound such as heliumized voices, squeaky, robotic, beepy, ding, anything out of ordinary.
- keep expecation low and have a lot of patience and high motivation
- I promise you after a while and few or many mapping it will normalize or sound better and more clearly.
- get more familiar to the sound you are hearing such as microwave beeping, car blinker light, female voices, male voices, music, clock ticking, bird singing, etc once you recognize all those sound, things will start to sound different and more richer in sound instead of same "beepy" sound.
If you have more advice, go ahead and add. If you have ossification and now begin to consider CI reply on here so other user can read about you and if you begin journey we all will like to keep updated please thank you
-Amy
Here's the hope, Cochlear America and Med-El have special split electrode array to push through the bony growth and if you have complete ossification surgeon can perform 2 cochleostomies to create hole at the basal and apical of the cochlea to insert split array in to get the access to get simulation sites!
Here's the link on special electrode array option on "special electrode designs"
Cochlear Implants
So if you have "dead ear" you never thought you could get CI or get any hearing, here's the option you can get now!
How do you get it?
Ask your current audiologist to perform hearing test in sound booth with and without hearing aid on, do speech test and then ask her/him to refer you to ENT or CI surgeon to discuss further about CI and then surgeon or ENT will order CT scan or MRI scan to see how much ossification you have to discuss some options or what he/she can do. And then after the testing they will declare if you are candidate or not and if you are they will schedule your surgery and then once you have the surgery you will have to go through recovery period usually 4 to 6 weeks before you get your CI activated.
CI activation expectation:
- most people experienced odd sound such as heliumized voices, squeaky, robotic, beepy, ding, anything out of ordinary.
- keep expecation low and have a lot of patience and high motivation
- I promise you after a while and few or many mapping it will normalize or sound better and more clearly.
- get more familiar to the sound you are hearing such as microwave beeping, car blinker light, female voices, male voices, music, clock ticking, bird singing, etc once you recognize all those sound, things will start to sound different and more richer in sound instead of same "beepy" sound.
If you have more advice, go ahead and add. If you have ossification and now begin to consider CI reply on here so other user can read about you and if you begin journey we all will like to keep updated please thank you
-Amy
You're sweet. I can ask you on PM. I am waiting for your respond me. 