Comments on: Newest Audiogram and Tests from UNC CI Eval

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:05:25 +0000

Thanks for providing your audiogram! I now have a blog

http://deafdude1.blogspot.com/

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:37:04 +0000

Thanks for sharing.

Right, doing the right ear. As for bilateral… we’ll see how the first one goes.

(However, if I do it in 2009 I’d save money from my insurance already being maxed out for the year. But we’ll see.)

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:35:33 +0000

It’s a fairly new thing called Electrical-Acoustic-Stimulation made possible by a CI surgery technique and electrode that can preserve residual hearing. There are devices in FDA trials (and approved in Europe) known as hybrid CIs that incorporate a hearing aid and a CI into the same device.

There’s info about Med-El’s device here:
http://www.medel.com/duet2Launch/index.html

By: Benjamin Heldner

Benjamin Heldner — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:52:39 +0000

You've got neraly same hearing loss as me before surgery. My loss was even a bit worse, over 1000Hz no hearing threshold measurable. Will you get bilateral or which side do you implant, I guess right? Benjamin Heldner’s last blog post: Frequent moments of joy

By: Kym

Kym — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:55:04 +0000

I didn't know you could wear a hearing aid on top of having a CI? That's interesting. Seems like I've been to an audiologist alot lately...don't you just love it? (sigh) Kym’s last blog post: dorkiest girl alive.