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It's good to hear a Med-El user share your experience. I hope you hear better day by day. What's your hearing history? Can you hear sound before? BTW, I know that Synchrony support EAS/Hybrid CI, which makes you can combine HA and CI in the meantime, have you asked your audi about this issue?

Thanks for these useful opinions. I do prefer AB more. Especially after seeing the processors in the distributors, I've found that even the size of the processor is not bigger than Med-el's. (Cause Med-el said they have the smallest processor which fascinate me.) And also I'm not glad that in...

Hi Soutthpaw, Yes, an additional surgery hour is not the main issue. It is more about the safety issue. Besides, I can't get any insurance paid for the surgery. Both of the distributors also don't qualified free upgrades. We should pay the whole money for any upgrades like from OPUS-2 to...

Hello everyone, I'm glad that I'll do the CI surgery next month. And now I need to decide the CI brand. (Only consider AB or Med-el) I've collected many information in the past weeks from [this site]/ [cochlear implant help] / [AB's forum(HJ)] / [Med-el's forum(HP)], and I think there is few...

Hi everyone, I'm the OP. I've read and learned from all of your opinions. So much thanks. Recently, I've did some examination. Seems like both of my ear has the condition to do the surgery. (Still need to do the MRI and CT in the following weeks to make sure it.) I've decided the surgeon...

Thank you deafdyke. This reply gives me a strong confidence. Can't wait to give it a try. On the process of examination these days, hope I can do the surgery. :cool2:

Hi everlastingstorm, The reason why I said CI's would be of limited help with a less than 80% WDS is because about 7 years ago I have 84% WDS on my right ear and 50% WDS on my left ear, and I still feel big trouble communicating with other people then. (Though still better than now.)...

Yes I know, but no one in my surroundings use sign language, because they are all normal people. There are no hard-of-hearing or deaf people in my surroundings, including my family, my friends, my colleagues and my classmates when I was in school.

Yes. I had a progressive loss. Both of my ear can hear good when I was in elementary school. And then both ear going worse day-by-day especially the left ear. Doctor said that if I implanted on my right ear, the EAS technology (hybrid CI?) can keep my low-frequency hearing, only remove my...

I see. Thar's a terrible news. I've already tried powerful HA like Phonak naida, but my Word Discrimination Score get even worse after wearing HA. Seems like if one's WDS is low, both HA and CI can not help to promote it?

I do respect the Deaf organizations. But I was not born Deaf, in fact I still can hear now, but just hard of hearing. And for me, I'm eager to hear clearly of people's words, musics, tv shows. I will learn sign language in the near future, but I still want to hear from my ear.

Sorry I Forgot to say that both of my ear's audiogram looks like a slope from upper-left side to lower-right side. That means my low frequency is much better than high frequency. My Right Ear is from -50 db(low frequency) to -110 db(high frequency), while my Left Ear is from -80 db to -110 db...

Hello Everyone, I come from Taiwan and I'm 28 years old. My hearing-loss situation now is: Left Ear: 100~110 DB Word Discrimination Score(WDS):0% Right Ear: 60~70 DB Word Discrimination Score(WDS):50% About six years ago, my hearing-loss situation is about: Left Ear: 70~80...