Re: Welcome all newcomers/Shera

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

> Hello Shera,

> Nice to hear from you and about you.

> I've been following the emerging of the hybrid implant Cochlear

Corp

> is doing trials on and it will be interesting to see how it comes

> out.

Yes, I'm really excited about it. I had heard that cochlear

implants can provide more help in the high frequencies than hearing

aids. Can anyone speak to that? I would love to be able to hear

more in the higher pitches.

> What I am most interested in is how it will be for long term and

the

> possibility of people who might eventually lose their low

frequency

> hearing too.

Right, I just read some stuff about that on the Med-El links. I

guess some people who would lose more hearing over time might have

to have the shorter coclear implants replaced by the longer ones

that would work without hearing aids. My hearing has been pretty

stable for many years. I try to be careful about preserving what I

have and not lose any more to noise damage -- so I think I would

risk inserting a short cochlear implant (for just high frequency

help).

I think some people on the list mentioned that they had had their

one channel CIs replaced? Did I remember that right? If so, I

wonder if it was difficult to persuade the insurance companies to

pay to have their CIs replaced by a more advanced one.

> My girls who are 22 and 26 are just now begining to

> have high frequency hearing loss so I've no doubt that implants

will

> lie in their future so I closely follow the new technology.

You sound like a nice mom! <s>

> My

> youngest has a sloping loss from mild to Severe in the high

> frequencies and my oldest daughter has yet to be tested.. think

> it's

> a denial type of thing but she has to work through it for herself.

> I have a 24 year old son who is normal hearing.. this hearing loss

> seems to focus itself on the girls in the family of this

generation

> with the exception of one nephew. My great grandfather was " stone

> deaf " as they called it so it's really like a big puzzle to me to

> see that it never affected any of my brothers or my son.<smiles>

Genetics sure can be interesting -- when I read about it, it seems

to be a lot more complicated than the way it was presented in my

high school bio class! (but that was a long time ago too <s>). I

think there are several traits and conditions that are sex linked.

If there's one gene it will be expressed in one sex and not the

other, if two genes (from both mom & dad's side) it will be

expressed in both sexes. Doesn't that happen in hemophillia and

some other areas?

> Anyhow..It's no problem if you lurk, but so nice to know who's who

> among our forum members.

> Feel free to pop in and say hi, ask questions or let us know how

> things are going or email me privately.

Thanks! I'm very curious about many things so I just may do that!

<s>

Shera

[Guest guest]

Hi Shera,

It seems that so many of us with hearinbg losses have them in the high

frequencies. I had practically none left by the time I went for my implant. My

map says that my range of frequencies as around 100 Hz to 8000 Hz. I know

that a lot of music has frequencies that are much lower and much higher than my

map but I hear speech....all of it!! It's those high frequency speech sounds

that really help us to understand what we hear. I also enjoy music

tremendously although it is not quite the same as it was when I had normal

hearing. You

bet you'll hear high pitches with an implant!

N24C

2000

In a message dated 2/3/2004 11:40:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,

allears180@... writes:

Yes, I'm really excited about it. I had heard that cochlear

implants can provide more help in the high frequencies than hearing

aids. Can anyone speak to that? I would love to be able to hear

more in the higher pitches.

[Guest guest]

Thanks , this is good to know! My hearing aid's frequency

range is 100 - 5500 Hz, so the cochlear implant definitely gives

more high frequencies. Nice!

Shera

> Hi Shera,

> It seems that so many of us with hearinbg losses have them in

the high

> frequencies. I had practically none left by the time I went for

my implant. My

> map says that my range of frequencies as around 100 Hz to 8000

Hz. I know

> that a lot of music has frequencies that are much lower and much

higher than my

> map but I hear speech....all of it!! It's those high frequency

speech sounds

> that really help us to understand what we hear. I also enjoy

music

> tremendously although it is not quite the same as it was when I

had normal hearing. You

> bet you'll hear high pitches with an implant!

>

> N24C

> 2000

>

> In a message dated 2/3/2004 11:40:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,

> allears180@h... writes:

>

> Yes, I'm really excited about it. I had heard that cochlear

> implants can provide more help in the high frequencies than

hearing

> aids. Can anyone speak to that? I would love to be able to hear

> more in the higher pitches.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

> My

> map says that my range of frequencies as around 100 Hz to 8000

Hz.

That is good to know! My hearing aid has a range of 100 Hz to 5500

Hz, so its great to know that CI has a wider range of correction.

> I also enjoy music

> tremendously although it is not quite the same as it was when I

had normal hearing.

Thats great to know also. I wasn't sure how listening to music was

with a CI. I have a friend who has an older CI (mid 90s?) and she

enjoys music, but she has an easier time with music that she

remembers from before she lost her hearing. I've heard that there

is a wide range of results from CIs, but perhaps results have been

steadily improving overall every year. I feel like I learned a lot

in just a few days, but I also feel like I got a lot more learning

to do! <s>

Thanks, Shera