I am about to take the Journey of a CI can't seem to get anyone to answer any questions I have so dont know anywhere to look. I think I haver put my story on the wrong page. I put it o...
I am a cochlear implant old timer! I am an adopted child with no known family history. My initial hearing loss with no hearing in my left ear was detected after I was in a car accident when...
I'm Ellen, a new member of the cochlear implant community. I was diagnosed with otosclerosis at 26 years old. Now at 54, I'm excited I received the Nucleus 5 as my first implant. My loss has...
Hi everyone. I will be receiving a CI some time in 2010. My hearing loss began about 10 years ago. Slowly it got worse and worse and then in one day in the spring of 2009, I lost a...
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Although I didn't go to have my hearing tested until I was 38 years old, I now know I was not hearing what others were hearing when I was in my early 20's. I was having s...
I have been Hearing Impaired all my life (nerve deafness, they said at the audiologist) , a teacher noticed when I was 10, because I could hear "sounds" my parents did nothing and I did ...
"To be or not to be" is my motto for the time being while I investigate and share my experience during this new journey. I am severely to profoundly deaf since birth which has gotten pr...
I am an early recipient of the Nucleus 5. My surgery was on September 9, 2009 and ever since the CI was activated three weeks later my hearing experience has been nothing less then miraculou...
Welcome to the Cochlear Community! I hope that you enjoy your time here and find the community helpful for all of your hearing loss questions. I, myself, have bilateral cochlear implants and...
Hello everyone! I have a progressive hearing loss in both ears. I have worn a BTE hearing aid in my left ear since I was 6 years old and a BTE in the right ear since I was 13 years old. S...