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Take a bath!! just keep your head above the water lol. Have your hun wash your hair over the sink, that's what mine did and it felt so much better. I know what ya means, SLEEP! I had to take me a percocet every 2 hours, then sleep. sleep some more. It will feel better! I hope ya feeling...

LOL, i did that (i looked like a cave woman lol) everytime i got up from a chair, i pulled my hair up to help move my neck lol. i was glad to have found a way to making getting up easier lol.

dreams, he's talking about survival in the wilderness. animals do prey on each other and if one was deaf, it does has a huge disadvantage, greater chance of becoming another animal's food. B/C it does not hear when a prey is near. i don't see any point in implanting wildlife and i'm sure he...

:grouphug: best of luck!!!

Don't worry about a thing!!! I love my Freedom and I'm sure you will too. Don't think negative! like they says "high hope, low expectation" Best of luck with your surgery and can't wait to hear of your activation day!

Thanks so much for expressing what i'm thinking lol.

had my implant almost a year now and i checked the wires, still looks great. but i did have one problem. the outer peice cracked underneath where you pull out the batteries holder. i just gave it to my audie and got a replacemet in less than a week. i was like wow! then cochlear sent me a tote...

Awesome! Best of luck!

Updates :) Hi! I got new mapping a few weeks ago. I finally got the 900 speed and had him turn up a lot more lol. It is just so freakishly awesome! This mapping has given me my best CI moments! I am understanding speech a whole lot better than I ever imagine I could! I'm whispering back and...

just to get an ideal picture, i've watched other people surgery video on the web. I even asked for mine to filmed, of course not lol.

research b-12 vitamins and tinnitus. get some of those and see if they will help. my tinnutis was worse the first month of having my CI, I had it a lot before my CI also, but nothing like the first month with my CI. Now I have them a couple times a month, it's tolerable now. I hope it will calm...

it kept falling off of me too, so i tried the longer ear hook and just used the warm water like they say to bend it a little better to fit around my ear, it works for me, had no problems keeping it on my ear now. what i don't like, is the little soreness I get from wearing the ear hook all the...

Well, I've listen to books on cd and my hun would go thru lists of words and i'll repeat them. I still rely a lot on lip-reading, b/c lots of words still sounds the same to me. I'll read things online to my hun and say big words that I've never heard someone says and he will correct me on how to...

LMOA, I'm still stuck in that phase lol.

Hiya all, long time no see! I still don't have any new mapping yet since the last time, still at 1800 and hearing at 10-20 dbl, pretty cool for me lol. My brain is still trying to like i called it seperate the noises apart, lol...I am still having so many CI moments. I can hear someone...

Good Luck and Welcome! I've myself have been there lol. The excitement of being a possible canidate and then getting the ball rolling! I love my CI and I have no regrets with having been implanted. Implanted May 24th 2006 Activated July 3rd 2006

My roomie got me Get Well Balloon and a Congrat Balloon lol. I loved having it by my side in my recliner during my healing stage.

Best of luck!

Thanks! For the last years, everytime I had the worst tinnitus, I always noticed that I couldn't hear like I used to. I did have the sudden loss, extra 60 db loss. One test in May 06 showed that my hearing loss was in the 90 db loss and then I had another hearing test by the hearing aid...

Sorry it's been so long with the updates. I was out of town and one night hours before I was able to go to sleep, I was the raging tinnitus in hearing aid ear, it was so horrible, finally I was able to fall asleep and when I got up that morning and put in my hearing aid, I cdannot hear a thing...