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A sound quality question for CI users: Do things sound more "basic" or "simplified" with an implant as compared to the way they were previously experienced as a hard-of-hearing individual with a hearing-aid? Or, do CIs truly allow for sound perception that is deep, multi-layered, and...

I've been tempted to, actually. But not when she's around.

A hearing superior whom I work for is so clueless how to talk to me that oftentimes she looks just like a horse wildly trying to use her lips to grab a carrot dangling in the air, seriously. I'm, like, what is wrong with you?! If you could see a video of it I'm sure you'd laugh 'til you cried.

Whoops - you're right! Guess I can't edit that one now, though. Yep, Leap Day surgery! Just the way I planned it, so that there won't be an anniversary next year or the year after that or the year after that to remind me of what I went through. ;) CI surgery: Feb. 29, 2008 Activation...

You are very fortunate, vallee. I sure hope my experience will be similar. My hearing used to be quite good albeit with a hearing-aid and I used to LOVE music. I can't believe it's been six months since I've truly been able to enjoy it -- wow. If I am able to sincerely enjoy some of my...

By the way, this is just an opinion -- not a request or demand. I realize that not everyone would favor this idea due to the fact there are times when both hearing aids and cochlear implants are discussed. I merely thought splitting into two separate forums would be helpful assuming the...

I am of the opinion that this forum ought to be split into two separate forums - a hearing aid forum and a cochlear implant forum. Certainly, both are electronic devices that bring improvements to hearing, but they are radically different in every other way. If this idea has already been...

If anyone here has had a chance to have a few conversations on an iPhone using a CI, how was the sound quality? I chatted on a floor model iPhone using my hearing aid back before it declined last summer and decided at the time that its sound quality was plenty adequate, but of course, that was...

I love snow. Usually got plenty of it in Spokane where I grew up, but not so much here in Seattle. Anyway, congratulations on being implanted; here's hoping that your recuperation is nice 'n smooth the rest of the way. Wow, this is hard for me to believe, but by the time you and Lady...

Wow, it seems like so many people are getting implanted, but it's great to be hearing progress updates from people like you -- I look forward to hearing about it. I'm im a similar situation, being a student. I wanted to get the CI relatively soon, but didn't want it to disrupt studies or cause...

Hm. I am hopeful that I'll start understanding speech within a couple weeks of activation, but that may be too much to hope for so soon. It's going to be very weird, however, suddenly using the implanted right every day after a lifetime of not using it -- especially as I sit in each of my...

Because I've been hesitant to implant the good left ear, I asked my Dr. what he thought about implanting the ear that had been deaf for years. His response: "This is true. We initially thought that the better ear should be implanted if the other had been deaf for many years. More recent data...

I did experience that sudden decrease -- it happened August 23, 2007. When I was tested in September, word recognition scored 4%, so obviously, it would seem that I would have a LOT to gain from a CI. However, my hearing seems to have rebounded slightly since that hearing test, and the quality...

As a life-long HA user now seriously contemplating CI, I currently yearn for information from other CI users that compares sounds before, with HA, and sounds now, with CI. Such information has been challenging to unearth. As a matter of fact, this might make a good new topic in order to begin...

I read the article. Sounds very promising, and if it proves workable, feasible, and successful in trials, I think the vast majority of CI surgeons will quickly embrace this method in favor of the more time consuming and more risky procedure of today. Thanks for posting the link, Tousi. If...

Availability of the TICI is not likely to become reality without genuinely practical solutions to certain hurdles such as the battery issue. It's probably only a matter of time before they eventually succeed in a design that works well enough that many would be willing to be implanted with it...

Imagine totally implantable cochlear implants. I don't know if this subject has been discussed in any of the AllDeaf forums (and if not, maybe a new thread should be started), but if this technology ever becomes feasible for human use (and it does appear to be headed in that direction, maybe...

Good ear used to have nearly 50% comprehension. Now its 4%. I know, this would seem to make getting a CI a no-brainer, and for the most part, it is. The loss is still a pretty recent event for me, and I'm going about this cautiously, educating myself as much as I can. As everyone else says...

Thanks for the welcome! Both ears are physically suitable. But according to surgeon and audiologists, the right isn't really "suitable" because of "lack of use." (They like to use the unexercised muscle that atrophies as an analogy, which I'm sure you've heard before.) I used the poorer...

Wow. This really gives me a lot to think about. I'll be addressing this with my surgeon in the letter I'm sending to him soon, because they had suggested that I have my better, exercised, practiced ear implanted.