Saturday, April 11, 2009

Post-Hearing Aid My Thought

So now after fairly sucessful trial with hearing aid I had moderately bit of dizziness woosh sensation in my head at the beginning but it goes away after long while so right now at this moment only FEW sounds trigger that but 80% other sounds that I can get with my residual hearing is fine no problem at all. 

Also one symptoms I dont think I've mentioned before, is achy around implant site sometimes it'll spread down to part of neck and little bit to the back of the head (only implanted side of the neck so left side) but its lways random and goes away after I wake up (18-24 hours)  then its gone and come back whenever without warning I think the reason is that surgeon might've not made it flush to the skull well enough for some reason maybe thin skull or oversensitivity skin/muscles around implant since I have thin skin could be anything,
 Also since I'm migraine sufferer it could be from that. Im trying out few medications to see what relieves migraine and hopefully fix the achy problem. 
I consider it mild most of time and sometimes moderate but never horrible or affect my mood/day. 

So I'm having 2nd thought about getting other ear implanted since I'm worried if I'll get same achy thing and also I dont want to go back disliking the music again because my fiance's all about music so it's not fun when he enjoy the music when I hated it with CI (but hearing aid bring in more bass sounds so now im back enjoying music as long its not too loud)
So we'll see maybe 5-15 years I'll change my mind again who know maybe there'll be longer array to get WHOLE cochlea to get ALL frequencies then I'll get it in a heartbeat (if surgeon will even implant it) but right now I'll wait

Hearing Aid Update

heres the update 

Pro:
* Heavy metal/Rock music sound much better
* More volume control to turn down if too loud (CI volume only lower by 10% difference pfft)
* Hearing more of the low frequency that im missing with CI
* If im tired of loud noise like restaurant, have headache or just want a quiet day but still have some sound I can just take off CI and wear just hearing aid.
* No surgery
* Comfortable , no pain like I have around implant site I get random achy feeling.
* Get some sound input in other ear so no one-sided feeling.  


Con:
* Cant hear the speech sounds clearly, its very muffled and missing sounds
* Not loud enough to match up volume-wise with CI when I want it to
* Feedback! (if I lean my head too close to something like arm of the couch it'll feedback)
* Earmold (plugged up feeling)
* Not covered by insurance (but VR may pay for it so we will see in little while)
* Some sounds sound very weird like light classical music sound like soft feedback ew 
* Increases the tinnitus issues but it doesnt bother me at all (only time it will bother me is if I cry my implanted ear will start ringing loud screaming horrible buzzing if I dont have processor on)
* At the most of time it doesnt work together like it will be CI hearing sounds then switch to hearing aid hearing sounds when different frequencies sounds is occuring all at once, it feel like someone is holding speaker to my ci ear then suddenly move it to my other ear its weird.