Re: Re: Wearing both - CI/Hearing aid

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In a message dated 4/29/2004 4:31:40 PM Alaskan Daylight Time,

Flashwun@... writes:

> I am one who has been implanted with my CI since Oct, 2002. I have worn

> a hearing aid in my unimplanted ear from the beginning. I did try to use

> just the CI and found that I could not function in the real world. Although

> my

> hearing aid gives me only 13% voice distinction, it is an amazing help. I

> have

> had two different audiologists over this period of time. Both have said,

> " Ya' know what? Perhaps the hearing aid will help train the CI " ! Now this

> is NOT

> scientific, and I don't know frequency levels, but I do know this. I can't

> understand voice with just my CI and I CAN with both it and my hearing aid.

> So

> this proves, again, that we are all different and the CI works differently

> for all of us.

>

Hi Jackie!

Is this a rare thing for people not to be able to understand speech with a

CI? How does that happen? Do you know the reason why you can't? Does it have to

do with how profound your original loss was? Understanding speech would be

the only reason I would want a CI..

With my hearing aid now I can detect environmental sounds, know when a dog is

barking, cat meowing or a truck is going by, even can tell when the dog is

eating her dry dog food in the next room. Of course when my partner sneezes it

could be a cow mooing or a train going by (smiles). However, I absolutely

cannot understand a word of speech and must lip or speechread.

Pam

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I'm certainly not looking for a guarantee..(after 40 years of being an RN, I

know very well that doctors can't promise anything) but am looking to find out

what predisposing qualities lead to a better outcome? Like what are the

variables?

It's hard to make the decision without all the facts... like what is it that

wouldn't allow speech discrimination with a CI? Does it have to do with the

brain or with the auditory nerve or with one of the electrodes int he CI?

Pam

In a message dated 4/30/2004 8:56:57 AM Alaskan Daylight Time,

justagram@... writes:

> Some do and some don't. There is no doubt that you will find it easier

> with the CI. You have to decide for yourself if you have realistic

> expectations. This is an amazing miracle and if you qualify, it is highly

unlikely that

> you will not gain benefit from it and most likely a great deal. But you have

> to want it bad enough and there are no guarantees in anything in life.

>

> Alice

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That worries me. Same as Pam, the reason why I would want a CI is to

understand speech without lipreading which I used to during my early days.

Regards/

Jerome

Re: Re: Wearing both - CI/Hearing aid

In a message dated 4/29/2004 4:31:40 PM Alaskan Daylight Time,

Flashwun@... writes:

> I am one who has been implanted with my CI since Oct, 2002. I have

> worn a hearing aid in my unimplanted ear from the beginning. I did

> try to use just the CI and found that I could not function in the real

> world. Although my hearing aid gives me only 13% voice distinction,

> it is an amazing help. I have had two different audiologists over

> this period of time. Both have said, " Ya' know what? Perhaps the

> hearing aid will help train the CI " ! Now this is NOT scientific, and

> I don't know frequency levels, but I do know this. I can't understand

> voice with just my CI and I CAN with both it and my hearing aid.

> So

> this proves, again, that we are all different and the CI works

> differently for all of us.

>

Hi Jackie!

Is this a rare thing for people not to be able to understand speech with a

CI? How does that happen? Do you know the reason why you can't? Does it

have to do with how profound your original loss was? Understanding speech

would be the only reason I would want a CI..

With my hearing aid now I can detect environmental sounds, know when a dog

is barking, cat meowing or a truck is going by, even can tell when the dog

is eating her dry dog food in the next room. Of course when my partner

sneezes it could be a cow mooing or a train going by (smiles). However, I

absolutely cannot understand a word of speech and must lip or speechread.

Pam

[Guest guest]

Some do and some don't. There is no doubt that you will find it easier with the

CI. You have to decide for yourself if you have realistic expectations. This

is an amazing miracle and if you qualify, it is highly unlikely that you will

not gain benefit from it and most likely a great deal. But you have to want it

bad enough and there are no guarantees in anything in life.

Alice

That worries me. Same as Pam, the reason why I would want a CI is to

understand speech without lipreading which I used to during my early days.

Regards/

Jerome