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I have profound hearing loss in my left ear and I wear a BiCros that sends the sound from my left side to my right ear. I was also told to only repeat the words that you understand. I found doing that very stressful although my word recognition dropped from my last audiogram. I find it difficult because I am so familiar with the words that I am asked to repeat. In my actual daily surroundings and hearing experiences I find that my word recognition is a lot lower than in the controlled Hearing booth. I am not a candidate yet for a CI because I have Medicare. All I want to do is to be able to hear!!! I can’t even say that sentence without crying its so upsetting.
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@judysmayo I am going through all of the messages on this cochlear implant discussion because I am now a candidate for a CI.
I can understand too well that you sometimes just want to cry. I have been through a lot of health problems, I had a liver transplant in 2016, but my loss of hearing has by far been the most depressing problem.
Getting a CI is scary to me, there are possible problems and even though they are not common, they do happen. I'm to the point though where I don't think I have other options. Oticon has come out with a hearing aid, the More, that's supposed to help with word recognition but I doubt it will help enough. My audiologist has a pair on order for me to trial. If those don't help enough I will go the CI direction.
JK