The surgeon never seemed to care about my results over the last 2 yrs after my hearing test. While I still try to make it work I have lost my energy for it. I still feel I was never given the aftercare I should have been. You are so right that auditory rehab plays a vital role. It wasn't until 8months after activation that I found out about audtory rehab while on a cochlear website for CI. His audi in NYC has alot of experience with rehab. The surgeon is world renowned in NYC for CI implants Unfortunately after the surgery the audiologist on Staten Island has little experience. I thought all I had to do was wear it and I did 12hrs/dayx7days a week. The difference is I was not told about auditory rehab. He convinced me that a CI would be a great benefit so I tried it.
I wanted something to equalize sound since I could not tell where it was coming from. I too lost my hearing in right ear overnight 7yrs ago. How great to hear that you are doing so well. I hope this helps anyone having trouble or considering a Kanso2. I know I was lucky as my hearing loss was only 4 years vs others with a longer hearing loss time but I am definitely an advocate of the Kanso2.
Use tools like YouTube, Spotify, hearing hint & cochlear copilot frequently. I also got a ear plug for my good ear to decrease reliance on that ear and force my CI ear to do the listening (in the safety of my home of course). I would stand under my kitchen clock with no other sounds going on and just listen to the tick, tick, tick. Listen to a word over and over and over until you can understand it. I encourage all of you to do your best to put in the hearing rehab work and make sure you wear the processor as much as possible. I was worried reading some of the reviews that I would not be happy but I couldn’t be more satisfied. I will say I have always had very short hair and I have continued to buzz the area of my CI to level 1 clipper, but I feel that is a small sacrifice for the ability to hear. I It will fall off 3 or 4 times in the first 20-30 minutes, but after that it stays well. It does take some time first thing in the morning when I put it on to get a good seal. I can even lean to my left with processor toward the ground and it stays on. Now I can wear it for an 11 hour work day as a Physical Therapist and it never falls off unless I forget and scratch my head and knock it off. It was good but still would fall off with quick movements, however that has continued to get better. After 3 weeks I started trying to wear just with safety hair clip. I wore it from the time I woke up to the time I went to sleep (except for time to let my hair dry after shower). I even got an extra headband which Cochlear delivered in 2 days so I could hand wash one and wear the other.
KANSO 2 MAGNET SKIN
Initially it was an huge issue but my AuD told me to wear the headband as much as possible for 3 weeks so my skin flap could flatten. I love that ap.Īs far as processor staying on my head. Now I use the copilot for word practice, especially choosing which word is correct vs two similar words. I am still not 100% and there are sounds and music that still doesn’t sound right (like between radio stations) but I believe it will keep getting better. You have to put it the hearing rehab work. I watched YouTube with the captions turned on over and over. I stayed up for hours on that ap and kept getting more and more words that night. I was using an app called Word Hunt as my Cochlear Copilot access wasn’t working yet. 4 days after activation I was able to comprehend my first word. Now I am 12 weeks post-op and about 8 weeks since getting my Kanso2 activated. They were okay, definitely better than nothing but not great. Initially went with CROS hearing aides as CI was not approved by insurance yet because with 100% hearing in other ear, “I wasn’t deaf enough”.
I suffered complete sudden single sided hearing loss in my left ear over night 4 years ago this week.
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