New Member/Question about mapping

[Guest guest]

I'm new to the group, so I thought I'd introduce myself with a little

history and then a question. I'm 44 and started losing my hearing

about 5 years ago, but didn't start to wear hearing aids until 8

months ago. In March 2007, I experienced a drastic loss of hearing

and my speech discrimination went from 35% to almost 10%. I was

approved for a CI and had surgery September 20th and was turned on

October 15th. I have a Nucleus Freedom 24, and had the surgery at

The House Ear Institute in Los Angelos.

The results have been really outstanding and my audiologist said I

was doing great. I was able to hear speech clearly by the second day

and somewhere in the past 2 weeks people started to sound

less " robotic. " I didn't really notice when. I was able to talk on

the phone on the second day as long as the person spoke slowly and

clearly and even made a doctor's appointment. The television is still

giving me some trouble, as is music. I went in for my third mapping

(this is my two weeks after being turned on) and my only complaint

was with volume. My audiologist said that when turning up the volume

I may lose clarity. She did increase the volume for me and now I feel

like I'm not hearing as clearly and voices are sounding a little like

a tin cup. Has anyone had this happen and should I just give it some

time for my brain to adjust to the new volume setting? Turning down

the volume doesn't seem to really help much.

I'm using the ADRO and Autosensitvity Programs. I also have a third

program where I can manually adjust my sensitivity and volume

controls.

Nina