I'm just chuckling a bit because most people with sensorineural hearing loss do wear 2 hearing aids. So what's the big deal? That's kind of an attitude thing from the ENT that creates all that denial junk. IMHO.

My first hearing aid was a bicross because I didn't want to buy 2 hearing aids! I went with the 'bi'. It was OK, but over time the unaided ear started to deteriorate. That ear was unaided for years. It was like atrophy in an unused muscle. That ear wasn't hearing so it stopped trying to hear.

Fortunately, a few years prior to considering a cochlear implant, an audiologist advised me to rehab that ear with a hearing aid I could use to listen to audio books. I used a hearing aid with a telecoil to do that. Over a 2 year time span it rehabbed and caught up to the ear that had been aided. It was pretty remarkable. I will be ever grateful to audiologist, Mark Ross, who gave me that advice. Dr. Ross was on the national board of HLAA with me at that time. He was a well known researcher and writer. Again, I was lucky. My CI was done on that rehabbed ear and has worked remarkably well working together with the long time aided ear. I did start out with the bi-cross though.

So many hearing loss stories out there. It's good to discuss them openly.

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