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I have profound hearing loss in the middle/upper range and need "Super Powered" HA's. On my right ear is a Phonak Naida S III SP. The main issue will be that the mid/upper is so far gone that HA's alone may not be able to assist much. Mine were programmed in a way to take the higher pitches...

Now that's funny Hoichi - Quick Google search using "Cochlear implant decision Kirsteen Allison" provides plenty of results: http://www.hearinglink.org/blogs/cochlear-implant/

Let's please not get this thread locked down as well.

a_sailor: You sound very similar to me and I too work in the IT industry (Software QA Engineer). Here's a thread I made showing my personal experience - http://www.alldeaf.com/threads/my-journey-to-hearing-with-a-cochlear-implant.126014/ and if you read through it, there's a well rounded...

I got a CI on my left ear and I'm doing well enough that I will not be getting a second one. I lost a little bit of hearing which I expected, but with the CI the difference is night and day! Do not have any fear about losing your hearing whether you go CI or not!

Not knowing sign language is something I regret my parents allowing me to make a decision on (I do know the alphabet/numbers!). When I was around 8 years old, they took me to a class to learn sign language and IMO, I could hear just fine and didn't see the need for something I'd never use so we...

I appreciate your response and I agree with what you said above that having a CI should be a choice. If my daughter had been born deaf, I would wait until she was old enough to decide for herself what path she would want to take if at all. I will never force anything on her. If I had the...

I assume they are still under warranty? After I decided to get a CI and then learned my wife was pregnant with our first child, I personally will never ditch my CI because I love more than anything being able to hear my little girl (4 months old now) make sounds. It's little things like that...

Fuzzy - My apologizes for the EXTREMELY late reply! I want to say it was about 2 months after activation that I started not using my CC phone at work (or the CC app on my cellphone). What's crazy is I wear over-the-ear Bose headset to talk on and before with HA's, I couldn't understand speech...

-If you had full hearing up until 7 years ago, I'd expect you to bounce back rather quickly. I have had a 90-95% loss in both ears for nearly 28 years and within 2 months after activation, I had surpassed my speech understand-ability with hearing aids but a lot. What you can expect when you...

Last week I went to my audiologist for another round of testing and I'm quite pleased with the results! Awaiting for her response on the hard numbers so I can post up exactly where I'm at now, but I do know I exceeded what they were expecting :). I believe I already mentioned, but I work in...

Howdy Greg! Do you have any specific questions you'd like me to try to answer? Since my last post where I mention I got the in-ear piece, my audi recalibrated my CI to allow lower frequency sounds to be processed through the implant to assist with the in-ear piece. That seems to have...

Been a crazy last few weeks and my apologies for not updating! Things have been great! My last appointment about 3 weeks ago, we did the sentence recognition and before the implant, I was getting about 30% correct. After the implant (little over two weeks after activation) I got around 78%...

I got my Cochlear a month ago and it sounded exactly the same for me. My only advice is to WEAR it ALL the time! You'll notice in about two weeks that it makes more sense, especially after each mapping. I also downloaded Angles of Sound and have not used it like I should. Will be getting...

Do NOT let your hearing hold you back from what you want to do! I did that for the longest time until I decided enough was enough and I then did what I wanted to do and now couldn't be happier. Over the years when I applied for jobs, I made a note in the disability section that I was hard of...

I am on day 5 of my CI and I am very happy (left ear). Hearing a lot of sounds that I have been missing for the last 28 years. I still have a ways to go, but I look forward to what the future holds!!!

UPDATE (12/03/2015): Getting fitted went really well and it's far different than I was expecting. At this current time, I cannot understand anything being said on the implant alone. I can hear extremely high pitches with ease (couldn’t before!), but the mids or lows appear non-existent. I’d say...

UPDATE (12/02/2015): This last month has been slightly challenging since I only have one ear, but thanks to awesome family/coworkers I can make it through the day! I've healed up well and the incision is very hard to see. This week I have felt more "normal" because I no longer seem to be...

Correct. I originally have been going to Associated Audiologist in Kansas City (20 years or so). Since they do not do CI, I went to Saint Luke's Midwest Ear Institute and had a hearing test done there to determine if a CI was for me. The test showed that I could benefit from a CI and then I...

Hey, better late than never!!! For me it was actually very simple. We did a hearing test as you can see above and the it was like "Yup, you're a candidate for CI and we recommend the left ear. When do you want to do this?"