Hi, my hearing loss was detected in 1991, about 8 months after my first child was born, during a routine hearing test at work (with the soundproof booth). I began wearing a HA in my left ear in 1998 and in my right ear in 2003. By 2016 my hearing with the HAs had gotten to the point of making phone calls very difficult. Fall 2016 I qualified for a CI in my left ear and had it done in Jan 2017. We thought my right ear would still be ok with a HA for a few years, but apparently it got jealous that the worse ear was now hearing better than it, so it had a rapid decline and I got a CI in it in June 2018. I'm doing very well with the CIs.