What's your review of Cochlear Osia 2 System?

hi all , just joined the group conversation, my name Is Piero i find it very helpfull , i am about to find out if i am a good candidate , newt week i will do hearing test then see ENT to see whats what, I am one side hearing loss called sudden sensoronial hearing loss , i may go for the osia 2 implant , i am not sure what all the down sides are ... can anyone please share with me all the discomforts if any , and the clarity or quality of hearing > thank you so much

Hi Poriolo,
I am an Osia wearer and I love it. I'm not sure what the down sides are. I don't experience pain or discomfort at the implant site, the magnetic attachment is comfortable, and the sound quality is great--it's truly like natural sound/hearing.

I guess the negatives could be 1) that I have a lump on my head where the implant is, 2) when I lay in bed to watch tv I have to take my Osia off to avoid it being pushed into the pillow and creating feedback [I bought a bluetooth neck speaker that allows me to hear the tv just fine], 3) not knowing when the battery might go out [batteries usually last about two days, so I try to keep up with it and I go ahead and change out my battery if I'm going to a meeting or somewhere else where changing the battery might be awkward], and 4) not being certain about how and when the device gets replaced or the costs involved with upgrading or replacing the device. I wish the companies would be more transparent with this type of information. I also wish the market would bust wide open so prices could go down. It would be really nice to have replacement devices be so affordable that you could purchase a spare to have at home in case something happens to your current device.

I hope this helps. If you have any questions, please ask.
Stephanie

Thank you so much Stephany for sharing with me , it'll help me a lot in decision making , I am kinda ok hearing only on my right side but hard at time when out in a restaurant or places with noises also not having orientation when a sound happens or someone calls me can't tell direction . Bring a busyness man and a multitasking guy this put me down a lot , it toke 3 years before I got used to it and grasp conversation better . Thank you again , I'll let you know if I'll do it and how it goes . 😊

Just curious. has your audiologist or ENT specialist talked to you about bicross hearing instruments? A bicross allows you to use a transmitter on the deaf side that sends sound to a hearing aid on the good side, thus giving you pretty good binaural hearing.

Hi Stephany , yes i had by-cross for 5 years but it made me irritated and all too crispy , helped a bit but i was not happy , I do have good hearing in my right side i do ok with nothing in both ears but after a day i feel muffled , I am scheduled with a good ENT to do a more accurate hearing test and then he will recommend some , but honestly i am hesitating to put the OSIA and feel a bump on my head not sure if I will be ok with that . Hearing is a very difficult condition as you may know and even the audiologist nor the ENT can really feel or understand us .. lol but will see what happens next week , I am also hoping they will come up with a smaller and thin OSIA soon . I thank you so much for responding to me and taking your time to do so , you are a kind person and so am I . talk soon

Best of luck, Poriolo. I understand your concerns. For me, being able to hear better via the Osia was worth the lump in my head. I liken wearing my device in a visible manner, which I often do because I love putting my hair up in a ponytail, to someone wearing glasses. No one thinks twice about seeing someone with glasses and I hope that as more people seek out hearing options and as visibility increases, wearing hearing devices will be completely normalized. 🙂

Hi Stephany hope you doing well , today i did my complete hearing test and unfortunately i am not a good candidate for the Osia i was for it but not god for me .. so i am back on the by cross hearing heads and that has to do it for now BUT the other option would be for a cochlear implant on my bad ear but its a big surgery plus long time to heal and then my brain needs to re train how to hear through that it looks like the Osia but also with a cochlear implant that would make me hear from my bad side . For now I just have to deal with my good ear and hope for some better technology comes along . Thank you for your advices and sharing your thoughts . Be well
Piero

Also i agree with you waring some on your head to be able to hear is worth everything , that would not bothered me , as i also ware eye glasses lol . If wasn't for the 4 hour surgery and long recovery and have to re train my brain again i would probably done the implant . to be continued. ciao

My cochlear implant surgery was done in 2005. I was in the operating room for less than 3 hours. I had requested 2 weeks off from work but went back in 5 days because I was feeling fine and healing well. My cochlear implant was activated a month later. While everyone tends to react differently when it comes to relearning to hear, it took me less than a month to realize how much easier my life was! I was in my mid 60s then.

Now, nearly 2 decades later, cochlear implants and the surgery involved has progressed to being less invasive and far more successful. The candidacy to qualify for CI surgery has been lowered so more people can have CIs. At one time, those with single sided deafness did not qualify.

I'm curious to know where you have gotten your information about cochlear implant surgery?

Hi , Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me about your cochlear implant , i really appreciate comments and life experience from real people that had gone through it , I went to a place called Costal hearing in Neptune NJ they have audiologist, and 3 ENT that also do surgery, after i beed examined again after 7 years they at first thought i'd be a candidate for OSIA but after the hearing test i was not a candidate for osia , so the only thing they would recommend is the new cochlear implant to give me a better hearing in my bad side , but i am doing ok with one good ear at least for now so i may not want do go and do that unless i really feel i need it , I am not sure after the surgery if i will have head aches , or other discomfort or how i will really hear on my bad side , they did say is never going to be like a normal hearing ..... and on top of that after having the surgery i would still have to ware these things on my ear and head ... i wish i could actually experience a similarity hearing to see if i would be ok with it .. so that makes me stay put of the unknown after the fact . I am glad you doing fine with it and wish you the best . I hope some a bit better will come out in a few more years . I already suffer of allergies and head aches so that is a bit skeptical too . thank you again .