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Hello, I am Mirna, I experienced hearing loss when I was 47 years old. My hearing loss progressed very quickly I had 20 % of hearing loss on left ear and I had almost no hearing on my right ear . I had a cochlea implant two year ago on my right ear and I wear a hearing aid on left. I had some problems with my processor last week and at this time I am using my spare processor and it is not working as good. I am hearing a lot background noise and the sound is not as great as before when the processor was working great.
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Hi I got my CI last summer. I did ask my audiologist what to do when something goes wrong. I was told I should contact the maker of my processor. I would be given instructions on how to send it back to them. In the meantime I was to use my backup processor. The maker of my processor will overnight a new processor to my audiologist and she will program it. I then go to her to pick it up. My processor is Cochlear so I can’t be sure of other companies
@mostcheg. I have been wearing HAs for about 15 years now, and my hearing loss has progressed to fairly severe so I am thinking more and more that I may have to consider a CI. When you have a CI, do you always have two processors so if one is not working you have a spare? I am completely uniformed about CIs.
Thanks.
JK
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@mostcheg, Good Morning, and Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I am happy to meet you, and that you have shared your experience with hearing loss. My husband wears hearing aids and when one of his is out for repair, he also struggles with having to get by without it, even though his hearing loss is not severe.
Is your processor being repaired?