Anyone here have a Cochlear Implant ?

[PeteLeathersac]

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Interesting thread and comments.
I'm one-eared from birth w/ zero sound one side, it’s there but only for looks also to hold my glasses.
Well used to the ringing head (mine sounds like fluorescent light ballasts) plus no ability to tell direction sounds come from or hear music in stereo…lots more that’s all part of it.
Worst for me is dizziness which has largely increased in recent years as the body’s ability to counteract fades w/ youth, now replaced by meds that only marginally help.
They do make Relay style Hearing Aids w/ microphone in dead ear that relays sound to a speaker in the other that may help some but I’ve never bothered w/ anything.
A Cochlear w/ risks including worse dizziness not worth it for me personally also they have no guarantee of usefulness or will ever work like a real ear does/did.
They're only partially covered w/ our Med system here in Canada…although they’ll 100% pay to turn your penis inside out?
Anyway, you're doing the right thing, read/learn all you can before agreeing to anything, talk to lots of people w/ them including some who experienced negative results.
If one ear still good, best advise from a lifer as myself, maybe try the Relay Hearing Aids first but get used to it/live w/ it for a good long while before making any surgical decisions.

~ Pete

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