Recent content by zajko

Just a few facts: CI surgery is not a brain surgery, it's head/ear surgery. And there is one implant type which is quite MRI compatible - check Synchronny from Med-El if you are at least remotely interested in CIs. (not saying you have to get it.. just clarifying. Good luck in your life with...

Well, sorry, English is not my mother tongue, so yeah, I might sometimes choose wrong words. I meant that without any hearing input it's very likely that she would be fully involved in the deaf community only and her ability to communicate with the hearing world could be more limited than it...

Then she should probably also talk to hundreds of people with hearing aids or cochlear implants who are involved in the hearing world, or in both hearing and deaf worlds. I can't speak for the US, but in my country it's like this: there is a small, but sometimes pretty loud group which is...

I don't have any experience with Tmic since Cochlear doesn't have it, but regarding the Kanso placement - I was actually surprised that the sound is same as with BTE processor. They found some way to compensate the "weird" placement and it works pretty well. So it actually doesn't matter that...

I wasn't born deaf, but I lost my hearing at the age of 2, so I don't remember natural hearing at all. I had hearing aids for 10 years, then I got implant at 12 - my parents knew about it since I was around 6 years old, but were scared as it was a new technology at that time in my country (in...

Hi, just this past weekend we had a CI users meeting and I had the opportunity to try Kanso for a couple hours. I'm currently using a N5 with magnet strength 5. With Kanso I used magnet #6 (the strongest one) and it was pretty ok, although I also used the hair clip to be sure it doesn't fall. I...

This is a very interesting question, so I went to google some info - from what I read, tasers shouldn't do any big damage to those with medical implants. I don't have any hard-fact citations, I'd just like to say that it might not be as dangerous as it sounds.

Jesse, maybe try Facebook groups for CI users. You will probably get more responses there and they will be more helpful that some of these above.

Hearing people can think what they want - sooner or later they'll realize they might be wrong. But you would do better if you went educating them, not still beating a dead horse here, because we know how it is. And to be honest, you don't.

deafdyke, what problem do you have with implanted people who still use closed captions and similar services? CI doesn't fix people, it helps them to hear more than they would without CI. And it doesn't matter what the "final" level of hearing with CI is, as long as it helps at least somehow. So...

HOH2000: CI is NOT any amplification, it's direct electric stimulation of the hearing nerve. And with my CI I can hear pretty everything, I just don't understand everything :)

This setting is great if you want just to listen, but not that much when you also want to speak, at least for me. When talking on the phone, I need to hear myself as well to know if I'm not talking too silent or too loud..

Ri Sol, I have a friend who was also pretty unhappy with her CI at first and preferred the combination of HA+CI to actually understand, but after a few months she got used to the CI sound and now she likes it very much and hears pretty well. So I think that your situation is also pretty normal...

It is always a really bad idea to hit the head, but the implant should withstand it. Someone in our facebook CI group once said that their audiologist told them that generally the implant is more durable than skull :) But I definitely don't want to try it personally ;)

BP: I have two friends who have Rondo, use it as their only processor and absolutely love it. They also have the Opus 2, but I don't know if they have ever tried it, because they are satisfied with Rondo.. so I guess it's different for everyone.