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F1885, I wore wore hearing aids for 6 years before getting an implant. I continued to wear a hearing aid in the non implanted ear until I went bilateral. I felt it was important to keep both ears stimulated because I wanted to hear as much as possible. I also did not want to give up on...

F1885, I started losing my hearing in my mid Thirties. It went from Normal to severe profound over a period of 6 years. Having pretty close to normal hearing for so long was a big factor in my success with the implant.

F1885, I am a late deafened adult and I received one implant in 2007 and I am now bilateral. I have the N5 for both ears and I find it an improvement over the freedom. I have noticed a small improvement in noise and I like music better. When I decided to get my first implant I did it...

hmm, are you sure there is not a 666 in the serial number? bwaaahaaahaaa.

Leeanne, I had the Freedom for over two years before I upgraded to the N5. I was implanted with the freedom so I was able to upgrade a few months after the N5 came out. Definitely, talk to an audi at a CI Clinic. They can advise you.

Leanne, I think it would be worth the wait to upgrade to the N5. The N5 is much sturdier than the Freedom and smaller. Instead of a controller the N5 has a remote which costs around $300 to replace rather than $1500 which is what I was told the Freedom controller costs. I have had the...

I could see Football being out of question but there are other non-contact sports Elliot could do if he wanted. oh and Repeat after me: "COCHLEAR IMPLANTS ARE NOT ATTACHED TO THE BRAIN!"

I also find it takes a few minutes for my brain to adjust to listening with the implant in the morning. If you feel the hearing aid helps when watching TV then I would use the Hearing aid. You could also let your audi know about this and see what they suggest.

Poor Miss Kat! When does she go back for more mapping? I hope tomorrow will be better.

Deaffy that is incredible! Thanks for sharing the news.

......that can help people why not use it!

I agree with Faire Jour that the majority of people who get implants benefit from them and like them. I have talked to a number of others who have implants and have yet to meet anyone who hates their implant. If we have technology

I just went bilateral this past week. I decided to go bilateral because my hearing aid was no longer very useful to me. My audiologist had brought up the idea of going bilateral a while ago but I took my time because I wanted to make sure it was the right choice for me. I was not ready to...

Deaffy, That is awesome you heard music. Not getting the sad part could be a guy thing,LOL

Jiro, good point about the bottled water. What about Distilled Water?

I would try just using a warm compresses to see if that helps. To be on the safe side I would warm some bottled water in the microwave and then wet the compress or boil some water and wet the compress once the water cools down. Tap water can still have some unwanted occupants. It would be...

Glad everything has gone well so far. Good luck with activation!

I am a late deafened adult and I received a CI in my worst ear three years ago. The implant has allowed me to understand speech without lipreading (except in noise), enjoy music and use a regular telephone (not perfectly). I had speech understanding almost immediately but it took months to get...

When it came time to choose my implant I was also torn between AB and Cochlear. At the time AB was saying theirs was better for music and Cochlear had more people with their implants. I chose cochlear because the freedom was more comfortable for my ear. I am going bilateral later this year...

Glad everything went well. When is activation?