Frisky Feline

Like everyone tell you sounds right to me. My hub had a surgery. you know how surgery take care of a healing CI for about 4 to 6 weeks to rest. For my hub who was taking more cautious approach in recovering from CI for more than 6 weeks. So, he started working with heavy lifts or carry heavy loads. I think it is pretty much same for any other surgeries that takes a heal to recover for 4 to 6 weeks or longer than 6 weeks. It is wise for suggesting you to ask your doctor about lifting the heavy loads that you to find out how long should you wait when you get a CI.Good Luck.

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Cloggy

Lissy is 10 years old with her mother watching over her like a hawk.... LOL.. But it would be good to see how much gymnastics can be done with CI on your head...
"handy" sounds as if you can just get one... If HAs work for oyu there's no reason to get CI...

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MattyinAus

10 year old as becoming a champion?

Well it seems I am going to stick it to HA. I am not bothered about that thing covering your ear. I'm quite used to it. I had it since I was 3 years old.

ambrosia

I think I'm going to be looking at getting a CI in a few years, just need to get some insurance first I have profound loss in my right ear and profound to no response in my left ear. I'm actually in the middle of getting new hearing aids, but I'm not holding out too much hope that my hearing loss has stopped, in fact I'm pretty afraid I'm going to go completely deaf. So while hearing aids are still helpful to me now, I know eventually they won't. So a CI it will be.

BUT I have a question for you folks that have implants that at some point could hear. I have otosclerosis and could hear fine into my 20's and have worn I aids since then, so sound is not unfamiliar to me. I have been told that a CI is a different way of hearing, and that you have to relearn how to hear sounds. I find that very confusing, what in the world does that mean?? Does sound sound different even than with HAs? Am I not going to be able to realize the sound I'm hearing is rain....or change bumping together? This is all sounds so bizarre.....

cdmeggers

Ambrosia, when you first have the implant turned on a few weeks after surgery, everything will sound different and new. It works differently from a hearing aid, the CI doesn't amplify sounds, just picks up the sounds around you and sending them to the internal implant, which is then sent to your cochlea/hearing nerve. You just would have to keep wearing the implant, and listening to the world around you and letting your brain figure out everything and make the connection. But since you grew up hearing until you lost your hearing, you'd more than likely would start making sense of sounds pretty quick I would think.

My left ear is my dead ear, and I had that implanted. The sounds with the CI in the left ear does not even compare to the sounds with the hearing aid in the right, 2 completely different sound inputs. But when the brain makes sense of the sounds with the CI, things will start sounding more normal over time. My CI's only been turned on for 2.5 months, and I'm still slowly making sense of what I'm hearing. I can hear different things, but it takes me a while to figure out exactly what it is I'm hearing. Right now everything still sounds electronic, but I can figure out what this and that sound is, and make sense of speech if I can lipread the person.

Matty, it's cool if you want to stick with HA's. They're your ears and it's your life. Do what makes you happy.

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BleedingPurist

Hello Ambrosia,

Actually, with your hearing history.. assuming your cochlea is intact and you are a candidate, you will likely know and recognize rain for being rain when you hear it. I started losing my hearing at 7 years old and wore hearing aids until 33 years old. On the day of activation everything had a tinny quality, but it was sound. I heard a crow caw that day and knew what it was by hearing it. My family's voices were their own.

It always varies between individuals, but eventually it generally will begin to sound natural like you remember it. The fact you've kept your hearing alive with hearing aids along with being post-lingual will give you an edge.

mskaty

Life with my CI is the same as with a hearing aid in regards to swimming, bathing, etc. The biggest change is in what I hear now. So....no, it does not stop me from doing anything as that I used to do before being installed. It has, however, opened my world back up to doing more out in the world.

mskaty

This is a post script....if you are going to go ahead with being implanted, do it right. Please get the best device out there.

Bottesini

Opened your world back up?

So are you a late deafened person?

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mskaty

Correct...I went slowly deaf throughout my life.

MattyinAus

So it wasn't highly recommended for me to get CI. Its far too dangerous for me to have them and my hearing loss does not support them.

darkbunny101

I was implanted when I was 3 and the limitations I faced are;

Cannot go scuba diving because of the water pressure.
Cannot go near magnetic fields.
May face potential sugery in the future to replace internal unit.
Concerns about MRI. I have to wear a medi alert necklace.


That is about all I can think off.

Cloggy

A short list....
Scubadiving is OK.. Unless you want to go really deep... and how many people you know do that?
There are magnetic fields everywhere... My daughter has yet to react to a magnetic field that's strong enough to be registered by her..
Re-implantation.. Yep.. that's gonna happen if you want to keep hearing... but that's not a limitation..
MRI... yes... in case of an accident you might have to go through one.. but there are other options.. But a "medi alert necklace" is good to have... but is it a limitation..??

On the other side...
Have you thought about the limitations you would be facing when you did not have the CI..??

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AlleyCat

I'm curious ... do those limitations bother you?

Frisky Feline

My hub told me that he would not go for another surgery again but never know because he is so use to having CI. you know? But he is not going for the second CI.

He hates it when anything that has magnetic near him because he is concerned if it can damage or be something. He is more cautious. He knew He isnt a scuba diving type but worried if he wants to go down for fun like a vacation standard for scuba. He does wonder.

Oh, medi alert necklace to let EMS or doctor know you shouldnot be in the MRI? Never thought of it. cool

Angel1989

I have a medi alert bracelet. I have seizures and other medical conditions. I have been found unconcious more then once. My bracelet states that I have seizures and that I am deaf. On the inside it has my husbands name and cel phone. I just added a charm to it, that says No MRI, Cochlear Implant. It looks pretty nice and did not cost that much. For me, I feel a little safer wearing it.

drphil

As I understand matters: Cochlear Implants are considered when a persons's Hearing aid isn't of much value-hearing wise. A Cochlear Implant is much more expensive-surgery/hospital care/audi services etc than any Hearing aid.

aside: the total cost for my Cochlear Implant 5 years ago was $55,000.00 CDN which was "picked up in total as I "fit the criteria" then by Ontario Health Insurance Plan-OHIP.The provincial medical plan. I was bilateral DEAF. Different arrangements in other countries

All of this leads right back-exactly where is one re: Hearing Loss/ Deafness?

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darkbunny101

No. I really could care less about them. I actually honestly do not notice any of them.

Basically the only one that bothers me is the fact that I cannot go on a certain ride because of the magnets.

darkbunny101

He could still scuba dive. Just not below 80 feet.

Audiofuzzy

You may want to research the net for s/e of CI
for example, here is simplified version of possible CI s/e

Cochlear Implant Surgery Side Effects | eHow.com

try more sites. don't be put off, though, as it is no different than putting warnings on medications - meaning, it may happen, doesn't have to.

and what can you do or not to do while having them:
Cochlear Implants - Playing Sports When Using Cochlear Implants


Fuzzy

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Smithtr

depend on your opinion, IMO bad implant suppose bad, honest, I don't see it, my personal I see it I never it It, your IMO choice your decide on things, what do your decide things your choice I already bad on thing before thing see it bad implant, I rid thing, It seems pretty i aware it

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drphil

My experience with my Cochlear Implant of almost 5 years is entirely different than some of the comments above.
My age, physical shape, type of DEAFness/hearing loss"-S N . skill of the surgeon?

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coolgirlspyer90

nope.. The only thing i can't do with my implants is go swimming with it. Even though the implants are water resistant i still don't like going to the pool and risking my implants getting wet.

But other than that, my CI doesn't stop me from doing anything, Heck, in high school i was in the fall/winter drumline, and i was the first deaf person to be in my high school's band program. So, I may not hear all the music notes correctly, but i know which note is which, and i just have to work hard at it. And i succeeded in that. Do you think your hearing aid stop you from doing what you want to do? I think you're probably thinking nope, it doesn't. That's the same thing with CI. I can play the marimba, the drum set, the piano, etc. What i really want to do now is learn how to play the guitar.

I played sports when i was a kid with CI. I went camping, etc. If something seems to get in the way with me not being able to do anything with my CI, i'll find another way, but if that's not possible, at least I tried and i accept it and move on.