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C-Nice, Sorry to read of your situation. I've been there. Lost my hearing in my good ear over 15-18 months. First ear shut off overnight 17 years ago. It is a pain but it could be so much worse. I am using Cochlear Implants today to hear and they work really well compared to my HA...

Sounds like a really good question for the Technical team at Cochlear. Are you are comparing this to your other CI or what you use to hear with your hearing aids? I don't know the ins and outs of the program for mapping. I wonder if you could affect the high frequencies by shutting one or...

Check with your audi. The Microphone settings may be set to high. My audi made some changes to my programming to reduce the white noise I was hearing. I know the frequency range was changed from 188hz-7600hz to 188hz-6600hz which helped. This was the input frequencies the CI will send to...

I had bilateral activation last week. I've had the 1st implant for 2 years and it is working great. I had a low frequency rumble with ring that lasted a really long time and I was really focused on this just after activation. The ring is getting a lot better with time. The only thing we...

smithtr, I have been reading the postings ever since you started talking about wanting the CI removed. I have wondered if the programming was some of the contributing factors to your head aches. With you having the headaches after the CI was removed, I would think you would want to pursue...

One more thing, Check with your Audiologist for your Daughter, I know Cochlear has meetings every so often where the representatives come in to give presentations on various topics surrounding CI's. I've attended several and have participated in a couple. I'm sure the other manufacturers...

I heard several weeks ago that there was some sort of adolessence program for CI. I do not know the background as to what the programming consists of but it may have something to do with setting MIN and MAX levels and stepping them up in a standard sequence. If you are not having your daughter...

My HMO paid $400 max on Hearing Aid. I paid the rest. The HMO covered 100% of both my CIs. I may have to pay a $250 copay for my second CI surgery and maybe cable/phone for the overnight stay. Don't know yet. Surgery was 3 weeks ago. Steve

I was not given the option as to which brand of HA I was getting but I also had not researched the different brands or options either. I just knew my hearing was changing by the day and needed something flexible and fast. My insurance co paid $400.00 and that was it. I had to cover the rest...

Hear Again, You are a mature user and your maps are probably set up for higher stimulation like mine. The low battery warning beeps from my experience vary depending on program, ambient noise, rechargeable or disposable, sensitivity and volume settings. I notice that I have much longer...

As far as electrodes being turned off. I had a couple turned off during the first couple weeks after activation. They have since been turned back on. When the electrodes were turned off, I had no noticable change in my ability to hear. Hear Again, I believe the Impedence Graph is the...

Thanks Hear Again for bringing up the T coil ratings. Here is a decent site which describes the T-coil and Microphone ratings and what to look for in a cell phone. Finding Hearing Aid Compatible Cell Phones I have had no problems with any cell phone I have used on T-coil. Using the...

Butter79, I too have had great success with the CI and adapting to it since I could hear prior to receiving it. What I notice is that when I run my slower programs normally for battery conservation when I am out and forget my extra battery, it sounds like everyone is talking through a fan...

Faire Jour, You know you have experienced a lot in life and you know life is full of decisions. By not making a choice, that in itself is a choice. You took all the information available to you and made a choice. The best one you knew how to make at the time. Having experienced the life...

I have heard some of this recently as well. The possibilities may be endless. I do wonder what the timeframe is on this type of technology being main stream and would think it is many years away. I hope I am wrong and time will tell. I am not waiting for the technology though, I'm...

Believe it or not, I can hear the shower door close and the hiss of the shower running in the morning with my CI off. Remember that the CI is electrically stimulating the nerve inside the cochlea. Maybe this stimulation is excercising the nerves and brain response to the signals. If...

Deafteen90 I get a tingle in my neck only with one electrode #19. The audi and I know which one it is so at the end of the C and T level adjustments, we just turn the max back down to a point where I don't feel it. Easy as that. I would surely think that they could do more testing to...

AlleyCat, Are both your ears the same or do you have one that is worse? Have you always been hard of hearing? Did the Audi test each ear independently or one at a time? Did you score the same in both ears? Has the Audi indicated they would go after the worse of the two ears or perform...

Cochlear Online had them on sale not to long ago. I think buy 2, get 1 free or something like that. Check their shipping out first. I know there are other sites. You may try googling drystore. I think they are around $3.00 each. Sure can't remember exactly. I recently picked up...

As far as the neck soreness, Yes left side and into shoulder muscle. I had a really hard time getting out of bed day 2-4. Doc said it was normal. Also had swelling on day 2 but was also told normal during post op visit. What I found is if I pushed the lifting restriction of 10lbs, I...