I am hearing 1960’s country songs … but that is because I clicked on 
and have the blue-tooth connected to my HA’s
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I don’t recall criticizing anyone’s punctuation or lack thereof. I can say I specifically have no sensitivity to CAPITAL LETTERS because for one thing I never get it straight in my head if its CAPITAL or CAPITOL.
Anyway Grandpaw’s experience with the aftermath of surgery is interesting and I’m glad he shared it. In fact I’d like to hear more about it.
But RIGHT NOW – I MUST EXERCISE SOME SELF CONTROL and FOCUS ON the time-sensitive matter on which hearing aid will be best for me. Should I forget about Resound Enzo Q 988 and try the newest Phonak Paradise whatever.
These “generation” of things and names of Naida Paradise and something else Paradise are confusing and hard to keep track of. Does anyone have knowledge or insight to share about the naming of hearing aids. I know my current ones are Audeo Marvel and I’m not even sure I spelled it correctly. But they are entry level or one step above and not working for me. I thought they were in the beginning because I could HAPPILY hear birds again - going from not hearing to hearing birds - I was easily impressed but there’s so much more to it that I didn’t comprehend being new to the entire issue of hearing and hearing aids.
I’ve got to get back to my VERY TIME-SENSITIVE (deadline ending January 31) search for knowledge (which hearing aid) and which audiologist to consult. The audiologist I was working left the practice for awhile or forever as she is EXPECTING A BABY. Happy for her but another complication for me to start over again.
Capitals and so forth is the least of my concern right now. My focus has to be on which hearing aids I’m going to TRY (capitals!) to get.
Glad you had positive surgical outcome!
Well that explains your hearing it but still in the dark about hearing voices, songs, whatever.
BTW I would choose something from the 90’s - maybe Phil Collins or Rod Stewarts’ DOWNTOWN TRAIN which I liked.
Each to his own, that’s what music is about. I grew up in a household where HANK WILLIAMS was king. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline were good but both died unfortunately so no new releases from them.
Exactly, i didn’t mean to offend other people on this. Sorry about the one off comment i made…
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Something tells me it might be a mistake to attribute meaning to them (I know you weren’t serious).
I didn’t give them so much meaning but now I have a professional opinion about the whole thing. She advises no way to know for sure, of course, but she also says not to write these things off either - that they may be clues to my subconscious and to keep an open mind.
The WORDS OF THE DAY I really don’t like - sort of a rap rhythm thing - repeated ad nauseam (standard procedure I guess 
“What you say… what you say… DOT DOT DOT”
If I were to attach any significance to today’s words - I’m not sure what meaning I could derive from seemingly nonsensical words; and since I rarely listen to music these days, rap or otherwise - no clues there.
I’m going to say you’re not alone. I’ve done some research and it’s possible to get radio signals, whether music or talk through hearing aids. It has something to do with electrical interference with hearing aids and cochlear implants.
I wear a hearing aid in one ear and have a cochlear implant in the other. Across the street from my house is one of those tall cell towers. There is a clock radio next to the bed. About a year ago, two years after I was implanted I started hearing some sort of talk radio shows, not one, but several different ones all talking at the same time, so there wasn’t any clarity in what was said. The stange thing is I hear this out of the ear with the cochlear implant without my sound processor on and the sound is the same like my hearing was before the hesring loss.i’ve heard the call letter from a station out of Milwaukee on several occasions.The signal comes in most clearly between 4 and 6 AM.
In the last couple of months, I’ve been hearing 80’s music. Now between midnight and 6 AM, 80’s music comes through the implant, not my other ear and the sound is natual, not the same as when I wear my sound processor. The most recognizable music, I hear I don’t think is a radio station. but possibly an internet broadcast. The reason I say this is because whoever is broadcasting will play a song from beggining to end one time, then at the end of the song, the song will repeat the last chorous of the song over and over again for about an hour. Then another song will come on and the same process happens again, the chorus repeating over and over again.
This person’s favorite song to play and run into the ground is Lionel Ritchie’s Hello. Over and over again. I didn’t hear the song this much in 1984 when it was released. This person has a cover version of someone else also singing the song and does the same thing over and over again. I’m really beginning to hate Hello. At some point, the song changes. Suddenly by Billy Ocean, when You Dream About Me by Night Ranger, Sole Survivor by Asia, Getting Closer to Your Heart by Paul McCartney and Wings (that one is from1979).a
Ong others.Suddenly, Sole Survivor, and When you Close Your Eyes are songs I love. Hearing them with the repeated choruses over and over again is getting old.
I didn’t have tinnitus before the hearing loss. This has only started over the last fouWhen it gets louder at 4 AM, it will wake me from a sound sleep. I really just want this to stop and/or take down the cell tower. So this does happen in some people and it’s annoying. I’ve also done the sound diversion, but it doesn’t eliminate the music or sound coming through the implant.
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Well, WOW is all I can say. I can not even imagine how frustrating that would be. The challenge is to find someone who could diagnose the cause and the solution. Could you try a different make/model of implant? Is there anything in your own house that may inadvertently amplify the signal - wifi booster, etc?
I totally empathize with you and the sleepless nights you must have. I had some odd interference stuff going on in my house that would cut out bluetooth streaming from the TV to my RIGHT aid only. Lasted MONTHS. I did figure out a workaround, but I actually thought my neighbor was jamming my signals somehow.
I sure hope you try things out to see if you can just plain ELIMINATE the issue. That’s what you really want. Keep us posted!
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OH! Moments later. I brought your very curious issue up with my hubs, the Tech Kahuna. He was also blown away that your imlant (or something) is receiving radio signals. He says to try and construct a pliable “Faraday cage” of metallic mesh that you could put over the implant to block the frequencies.
Maybe you could mold the cage, then somehow hold it in place over the implant with a knit skullcap? Just thinking out of the box here… Hubs says it should be easy to BLOCK that signal with a Faraday cage device, but how you fashion it and put it to use is the challenge.
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@Raudrive Rick, hmm, I never really noticed. At first, my answer would be no, but I don’t always wear my sound processor at home. Meaning I’m not sure. Right now, I don’t have it on, but it’s not late enough at night and right now all is quiet. It’s just strange, sometimes when it’s just talk, it’s like being in a crowd. All different voices at once, but it’s not loud. More like background noise. Sometimes the music will come in at a clear level, not loud and not quiet. Loudness would drive me crazy. It’s just like a radio when your turning the disl to tune it. It will come in and I can hear what the discussion or song is, then fadez, get louder, and fade again.
Let us know if putting the processor on stops or helps this issue.
On two occasions my right ear/processor went really loud and weird. It was noise I did not want to deal with. I ended up getting on the master volume and turned the volume way down until the loud sounds were tolerable. Both times it took about a week for this issue to calm down. Then I slowly over about a week raised the volume back up to normal on that ear.
My audiologist said it could have been sinus issues from allergies. Who knows. It was disturbing at the time.
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@1Bluejay Your husband’s idea doesn’t sound far fetched. Something between the implant and the frequency could block the sound. I still thinnking it might have something to do with the cell tower and how close to the house it is. If I didn’t live across the street or in the vicinity, this wouldn’t happen. Other sounds like the TV do work at blocking the sound.
I just wish whoever keeps playing the last part of a a music recording would stop. That’s when I try to shift my focus, like stream TV, a movie, a radio station, or something like You Tube through the other ear. That helps. Eventually it will either fade or stop (like the frequency is going in another direction. Like today, it’s been nothing…quiet. We did have rain this morning. Just weird and annoying.
@Raudrive It can also be just as annoying when a song I haven’t heard in a long time that I like comes through the implant and it’s faint, ou can’t control the volume to hear it better because you actually want to “listen.”
All I can say is if it is someone broadcasting an internet radio station that is insanely addicted to Hello by Lionel Richie, they stop.i’m so sick of hearing that song over and the last verse over and over again.
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EDIT: Oops! I thought I was replying to someone else’s post here.
Do you ever hear any radio station call letters or ID to help find out WHERE this song is playing? It has to be coming from somewhere. Is there a fringe station that signs off every night with that song?
BTW, how did you get rid of tinnitus?
Check out Auditory Charles Bonnet Syndrome. “rare condition that presents with sensorineural hearing loss, which can result in musical hallucinations”. I have the Visual component of this syndrome. I had visual hallucinations that cropped up when my vision was getting worse. “When you lose your sight, your brain gets less information from your eyes than it’s used to. Your brain sometimes makes up for this by creating hallucinations… It’s not caused by a mental health problem or dementia.” I currently just see musical notes when reading. I was referred to an Visual Neurologist.
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@bluckie1
Thanks so much for your post.
A loved one had macular degeneration and lost sight. She used to speak so beautifully of scenes that she could only see.
Your explanation has helped me a lot.
DaveL
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