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.