Hi 
I’m not a candidate for CI. I was born deaf on left side, genetic EYA1 BOR. My ENT says we have to be implanted early on and I am 55 years old. He says my brain will not be able to make sounds into words.
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She answered you but the simple answer from doctors is if you haven’t stimulated the auditory nerve for a very long time the chance of a CI is working is low.
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Oh ok so that’s unfortunate, yeah so the bone conduction could well be something else to try, hopefully those that are using themselves will offer some advice.
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I will look into bone conduction devices for sure. I know when they do that test on me I do hear.
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I believe bone conduction hearing still uses the auditory nerve to get sound to the brain.
The vibration can easily transfer from one side of the head to the other using the skull.
Masking during bone tests are typical I believe.
Not an expert about this at all. Maybe @TexOkie can help us.
Here is a thread started but no help given.
This sounds kind of like the OP here.
I am not familiar with the Cochlear device mentioned.
I found this under categories/bone conduction.
More information in that area you might want to read.
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Speech in noise IS going to be difficult.
It needs a BiCROS set-up - probably with a tidy little mould on a medium/HP receiver. We’d normally offer an Oticon More 2 in this configuration, but you might want to hold fire a couple of weeks until the Intent comes out and fid out whether the steerable tech works on the CROS system too.
Definitely find someone that handles Oticon, definitely find someone that will let you trial the CROS unit and return after a month if it’s not giving you benefit over the basic aid.
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Do you use phone app from Signia?
Which device do you use for your hearing problem?
I do use the Signia app.
Thank you for sharing this.
I am bilateral cochlear implants.
And do you have ‘the Assistant’ option available?
Narrowing the field od hearing from omni or auto to a narrow cone can help a lot in noisy situations.
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I use Signia Pure C & G 7AX with bicros as well as Starkey Livio 2400 with bicros
the assistant wont help much if the HA is not properly fitted.
While it won’t fix bad fitting it allows for a significant degree of experimentation [that’s why some fitters are afraid of enabling it], and pretty much exposes most of the programing capabilities indirectly.
I self-program and can see in the fitting software what each request to assistant does, you can manipulate most of the settings via it.
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Thank you, it might be disabled due to me having bicros, I think I might have read at some point that the assistant doesn’t work with bicros but I will definitely look into it.
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