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whoa, I was just reading about how people put magnets in their fingers to sense magnetic fields. i wonder if you could with this implant.
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Dark_AnNiaLatOr
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Hope you get some good results from this new tech! Also, I feel for your situation.
Ah, I see, so there was a chance the damage would naturally stop increasing. That makes sense given that the implant does require some irreversible work, there's relatively little harm on hoping it ends up being unnecessary.
Horseticuffs
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That's very cool! Congratulations, and I bet you can't wait to hear some stuff again. I hope the surgery was very, very effective once they get it all calibrated.
Hopefully you aren't in much pain.
Hopefully you aren't in much pain.
It's recovering surprisingly fast, and right now it's mostly throbbing/itching.
Not with any current treatments except for the brainstem implant, which is generally far less effective than the cochlear implant.
SteveWinwood
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I hope the best for you!
Also since you found the other one encouraging I can tell you I knew someone in college who had the same procedure. She cried when they turned it on and said that for the first time in years she could hear someone clearly and voices were now the most beautiful thing she could remember.
Also since you found the other one encouraging I can tell you I knew someone in college who had the same procedure. She cried when they turned it on and said that for the first time in years she could hear someone clearly and voices were now the most beautiful thing she could remember.
Charles Foster Kane
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Hope it really helps your situation man.
Congrats man! I know it's not comparable, but my wife and I rescued a deaf dog whom we love dearly. I often ponder what his life must be like without the sense of hearing. Your brief synopsis of your experience sheds some light on what must of us will never endure. Thank you, I found your story very moving. Good luck!
ipitydatfu
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goodluck on your recovery you frakking toaster
Good luck. I got mine at 18 and it didn't solve my hearing issues. So I have basically a $10,000 paperweight in my head.
While I'm able to pick up more sounds than I was without it, it doesn't help me understand anything any better... :/
While I'm able to pick up more sounds than I was without it, it doesn't help me understand anything any better... :/
No. At the age of 13 my hearing started to distort to where I couldn't hear anything correctly. Throughout my middle-high-school life, I had to go many doctors to be "poked and prodded"/tested and "yep, he's going 'deaf'."
The whole "WHY" bit wasn't answered until I think I was a senior in high-school, when they diagnosed it as A/N.
They thought a CI would help the brain interpret what it was hearing over the middle-ear. So I did the implant shortly after I turned 18 and have had it since then. But like I said: Didn't help me understand any better with it on, so I haven't worn it daily in like two years or so. I still have the mics around here, but have just gave up on ever having them magically "flip on" an understanding switch and be able to understand like I did 0-13years.
The whole "WHY" bit wasn't answered until I think I was a senior in high-school, when they diagnosed it as A/N.
They thought a CI would help the brain interpret what it was hearing over the middle-ear. So I did the implant shortly after I turned 18 and have had it since then. But like I said: Didn't help me understand any better with it on, so I haven't worn it daily in like two years or so. I still have the mics around here, but have just gave up on ever having them magically "flip on" an understanding switch and be able to understand like I did 0-13years.
The Tofunator
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Good luck on the recovery!
Syph Medwes
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That's pretty cool. Hope it works out for you.
There's a guy in one of my classes that has the same apparatus, cool to know specifically what it does now.
There's a guy in one of my classes that has the same apparatus, cool to know specifically what it does now.
The electrodes and stuff is all internal, I might have some scarring from the surgery but it'll fade with time.
The most obvious part of a cochlear implant is actually the receiver/processor, which I won't get until later.
(And I don't normally wear my hair like it's a chicken's nest so it'll cover most of the ear.)
Hope everything works out. I've been wondering if they'll do something like that to my left ear since I've been almost completely deaf in it since I was a baby, no one knows how it happened. I dunno if I want actual surgery like you got though, that looks like pretty heavy stuff.
Freeza Under The Shower
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Does having heard before mean you don't have to 'learn' how to hear sounds 'correctly' now?
I hope your implant is everything you're hoping for and more.To echo Haly, in my experience really only the receiver is noticeable, though depending on how you style your hair, the scar can be visible. If you don't want it to be noticeable, you can definitely hide it pretty well.
Sort of. I'm what's called post-lingual deaf, someone who has acquired language before the onset of deafness, which provides many advantages over being pre-lingual deaf. The pre-lingual deaf have a much harder time recognizing "voices" because their brains never laid down the foundations for it during their language acquisition years.
That said, the sound that will be provided to my ear via the implant will be heavily distorted, and it's frequently described as "robotic" or "coarse", so I will have to readjust what my idea of certain a sound is for all sounds I can remember.
Freakinchair
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That's awesome! I wish you the best of luck when it gets activated... I'm sure you'll let us know how it goes.
Being able to learn to speak before becoming deaf is one of the largest advantages, but the discrepancy between what you expect and what you hear can be very jarring, i don't know if you can ever really get used to it.
Edit: not trying to rain on your parade or anything D:
John Kowalski
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Well, hum, you look pretty cute from behind, i guess.
Good luck with the activation!
Good luck with the activation!
That's interesting, I bet you'll be going in no time!
I grew up with a guy who also had a cochlear implant. He lost his hearing at age six due to illnessI met him when he was 12 and I was 7 and we grew up together like brothers.
We related very well because he was, well, I guess you could say a bit behind socially with kids his age due to being at a hearing disadvantage when he was younger before getting the implant (I'm not sure what age he got the implant, but not before 8 or 9 I'd imagine). Like you, he was very shy due to his disability. As he was just catching up on life with his new hearing I moved next door.
His implant basically sent him from probably 5% hearing in only one ear (he often said the cliche "I was deaf in one ear and couldn't hear out of the other") to being anywhere from 50-70% depending on the tone of the person speaking. He could hear anyone with a neutral to deep voice very well, but did have issues with soft spoken or higher female voices. It was a loudness issue more than anything, I suppose.
He had at least one surgery to readjust something due to it beginning to give feedback (he described it as a buzzing noise), but his parents always said that the surgery and implant was a significant improvement over life beforehand.
As I said, I really hope things go amazing for you. I expect it will give you the confidence to get out there and conquer the world.
I grew up with a guy who also had a cochlear implant. He lost his hearing at age six due to illnessI met him when he was 12 and I was 7 and we grew up together like brothers.
We related very well because he was, well, I guess you could say a bit behind socially with kids his age due to being at a hearing disadvantage when he was younger before getting the implant (I'm not sure what age he got the implant, but not before 8 or 9 I'd imagine). Like you, he was very shy due to his disability. As he was just catching up on life with his new hearing I moved next door.
His implant basically sent him from probably 5% hearing in only one ear (he often said the cliche "I was deaf in one ear and couldn't hear out of the other") to being anywhere from 50-70% depending on the tone of the person speaking. He could hear anyone with a neutral to deep voice very well, but did have issues with soft spoken or higher female voices. It was a loudness issue more than anything, I suppose.
He had at least one surgery to readjust something due to it beginning to give feedback (he described it as a buzzing noise), but his parents always said that the surgery and implant was a significant improvement over life beforehand.
As I said, I really hope things go amazing for you. I expect it will give you the confidence to get out there and conquer the world.
I got used to it, I don't really mind it unless I think about it/get reminded of it (like right now) and it fades from my attention with time.
Living with tinnitus taught me firsthand about the brain's remarkable ability to get used to anything.
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