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Just signed up. I've been losing my hearing since I was a child, and now have severe bilateral loss, sensorineural. On my 3rd pair of hearing aids (Oticon OPN) which I wear faithfully, but I still cannot hear well. My hearing loss creates difficult situations, miscommunication, fatigue, and isolation. On the UP side, I am able to use my experience with these challenges in my job as a Peer Support Specialist.
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I sincerely hope that you will consider cochlear implants if you are not doing well with your newest hearing aids. I am bimodal, which means I use a cochlear implant on one ear and a hearing aid in the other. It has worked very well for me. Both ears have similar hearing loss. I would be a candidate for a second implant, but feel I do quite well using both technologies. My brain has wired itself to hear with both of them. If I remove one technology I don't do very well with the other. It doesn't matter which one. I do know that if I had to only use one that it would be the cochlear processor. I used hearing aids for 30 years before having the CI surgery.