RE: New to group and nervous......

[Guest guest]

Hi Rhonda,

This is the best group for support and info about the cochlear implant.

I'm not sure about the bone anchored hearing aid. Does it sound the same as

a regulare hearing aid? Good luck and I hope it works out great!

[Guest guest]

,

An individual can actually test try the BAHA with a headpiece before making the

decision to have it. The device is anchored against the temporal bone and if

you are able to hear with the test device, you will hear with the real thing.

It was very interesting to watch some of the members of my SHHH Chapter who

could hear with the device thru this headset. It actually can be set to bring

up either the low tones or the high tones and I believe both if necessary but

I might be corrected on that. The sound quality is much better than a hearing

aid from what I was told. Many of us with CI's would not qualify because we

don't gain any benefit of sound thru the temporal bone when tested. We only feel

the vibrations. BAHA users actually hear thru the temporal bone. I found it

to be very interesting.

Alice

Hi Rhonda,

This is the best group for support and info about the cochlear implant.

I'm not sure about the bone anchored hearing aid. Does it sound the same as

a regulare hearing aid? Good luck and I hope it works out great!

[Guest guest]

BAHA? whats that?

New to group and nervous......

Hi, my name is Ronda. I have just been told that I am a candidate for

the BAHA. I have not been able to hear in my left ear since 1973, due

to a double skull fracture. I have just started driving truck w/ my

husband and worried that if I get the implant, how long it will take

to get used to sounds, since the truck is LOUD! Also kind of nervous

about the surgery and not knowing how long recovery would be. Any

suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[Guest guest]

You use bone anchored hearing aid when you have conductive hearing loss. It

might not sound the same as the hearing aid as it doesn't pass your eardrum,

so you don't experience those acoustic properties of sound for passing the

ear canal and eardrum.

Bone conduction hearing aid is connected to your mastoid bone, do you

remember the hearing test you had where the audiologist connect a device

behind your ear and see if you can hear it, well, that's hearing test for

bone conduction. If your bone conduction hearing test turned out very very

good as compare to the air conduction, then you have conductive hearing

loss. This is very different from sensorineural hearing loss. Conductive

hearing loss is rarely progressive and you don't have recruitment problem

like what happens to cochlear hearing loss.

Regards/

Jerome

[Guest guest]

BAHA is not cochlear implant. You still hear almost the same. No

re-training.

You can also have some bone conducting hearing aids that send signal to your

head bone if you intend not to have surgery.

Regards/

Jerome