Not sure where this question was directed, but it might have been to the statements of Music program. Adjusting the microphone to have higher sensitivity can help with hearing quieter passages of music (instead of suppressing them). However, it was easier just to make a new program for it.
(As far as I can tell, microphone sensitivity is similar to a gate threshold in audio mixing.)
You have described the Sensitivity setting as I see it too.
It is like drawing a circle around you. More sensitivity enlarges the circle while decreasing the sensitivity setting makes the circle smaller.
i’m doing very well. @Deaf_piper I am one of those high performer, Scoring 96% on 4 people test in and 70% in noise when SNR +10 db is added, bimodal setup with oticon dynamo… I’m getting the resound omnia because resound quattro microphone is broken and is out of warranty, I ordered the new aids last week when it came out. i had the appointment a day later when they announce it…
I am also planning on getting the Nucleus 8 sound processor as well because bluetooth 5.2 and i’m buying next gen devices to take advantage of it and resound omnia is the second gen device with a bluetooth 5.2 compliance chip and can confirm that bluetooth LE Audio is coming to N8
From the N8 upgrade video leaked on the internet
Device(s) used for Testing:
Right ear: N7
Left ear: Oticon BTE
Soundfield Aided Thresholds: Aided thresholds in borderline normal/mild hearing loss range
Unaided Thresholds: Moderate sloping to profound sensorineural hearing loss in the left ear. Stable. Did not test right ear due to documented complete loss.
Tympanograms: Restricted right, normal left.
CNC Words Test:
The patient repeats 25 single syllable words, auditory only. The words are presented at 60 dB SPL (conversational level) delivered from a CD player.
3 years Post-Activation of CI: (today)
Right: words: 72%, phonemes: 85%
AzBio Sentences Test:
The patient repeats 20 sentences, auditory only. The sentences are presented at 60 dB SPL (conversational level) delivered from a CD player.
2 years Post-Activation of CI: (8/5/21)
Right: 84%
3 years Post-Activation of CI: (today)
Right: 80%
Bimodal: 96%, +10 dB SNR: 63%
@ssa with the Bluetooth LE in the the N8 will that mean I will have to get a new aid as well? I’m overdue for an upgrade of my N7, I will be getting the N8 when it arrives downunder. I currently have a Resound Enzo 3D, one of the older Resound aids, and it’s working beautifully.
no your devices would still work but it won’t work with the newer devices that just have BTLEA…
I’ve been on and off the forum for the last year and just noticed this post and I was mentioned. Well, I’m going on 2 1/2 years on my implant. At first I was afraid to go through the surgery, but glad I did. Like @Deaf_piper , I’m bimodal. I still hear well enough to wear a hearing aid in one ear. Without the aid or sound processor,I can hear, but not well. The implant has been great. I mostly wear my Kanso 2 , but I also have an N7.
In my implanted ear I’m around 55-60 % with it alone, but 93-97% using both devices. Noise is a bummer and certain voices are tougher to hear than others. When I use both devices, things sound great and it’s nice to have hearing and sound 360°. I’ve mostly been single sided with my hearing most of my life, but not in this way. My right ear was my good ear and my left has had nerve damage most of my life. I used my right ear to hear. In 2017, I got hearing aids and found I could hear out of my other ear. This worked until I suddenly lost the hearing in my right ear suddenly and completely just before Christmas 2019. Thank goodness I had the hearing for my left ear.
I had seen an ENT, but bybthe time I was able to get in to see her, it was almost 3 weeks later snd too late to recover any hearing in my right ear. A month later, I saw a surgeon that did cochlear implants, technically, he was a neurosurgeon. Found out I was a candidate for implant surgery and had it done in July, 2020. I’m lucky because it was successful, and for me painfree. I feel very lucky for that. I’ve done well with my implants and the sound processor. I can definitely tell the difference when not wearing my sound processor. My hearing is so much better with both devices. Nothing new on either ear, still the same. This technology is nothing short of a miracle!
I just had my second mapping at 4 months post activation with AB CI. I am very happy with my progress and hope it gets even more refined with more time. Today I booth tested for my CI ear in the normal range across frequencies. I tested 95% for both single word and sentence understanding with my CI ear. Can’t ask for much better. I had a lot of reverb from my own voice and while streaming/on phone calls, so they reduced volume of some of my higher range electrodes and it seems to help. Hope all of you are doing well with the journey.
95% impressive results.
Excellent results, well done Joan.
It’s been just over two years post-activation.
The last mapping appointment at the two year mark has pretty much left the map itself unchanged, so things are stable in that regard.
There had been a minor side-step as I was experiencing a slight physical reaction to sounds between 600-700Hz at their maximum volume/power. Narrowed it down to electrode #19 and now that’s been disabled. Didn’t affect listening in any way I could perceive - a sentence test put me at 92%, up from 89% six months prior, so that’s fine.
I do wonder though - earlier on I was experiencing a physical reaction to sudden loud sounds which was mitigated by enabling a more aggressive loud sound attenuation setting - whether that the same electrode was the cause of that.
Invested in a mini-mic recently and it’s been really good to have in extra-noisy situations!
You and I have pretty close implant dates. At two years my left side was not changed, doing great. The right side the audiologist did make a small change to see if it would help.
You are doing great.
You have awesome results Garenio. Happy to read you have solved your issue by having 19 turned off, and doing very well.
It’s likely another 10 yrs out. Reportedly, the sound quality is suffering; though, it may still improve before it gets approved.
Hi
Not sure if anyone is still “on” for this thread. I’m new to the forum. 75 yrs old, bilateral implants (N7). I got an implant for my right ear a long time ago, back in 2011. At that time, I had a Widex HA in my left ear, altho the two aids were not really bi-modal. They depended on my brain for coordination, but things actually seemed to work out well. Over time, hearing in my non-implanted ear degraded. I muddled along with speech recognition of about 30% in my non-implanted ear, about 90% in the impanted ear.
A year ago, I went bi-lateral. A rocky beginning, the new implant had a factory bug of some sort that the on-phone support tech at Cochlear helped me sort out. He sent a replacement processor which seems to be working as well as the aud expected (my own expectations are much higher, but…).
I finally admitted that I needed to do rehab for the new device, which I’m slowly working thru. I’m very grateful for the suggestions that I read here about rehab apps and using ESL classes. I’ll try them, I found Cochlear CoPilot really boring, and difficult to motivate myself toward.
This forum is a wealth of wonderful information. An enthusiatic, if belated, thank you to all of you.
@user699 welcome to the forum. My favorite apps were Hearoes and my local Library app, as I love reading. And using the Libby or Borrow Box app from my library was great. I borrowed the hard copy for about 1 month tops. To get this you need an electronic membership from your library.
A lot of the apps are very boring, and once I could comprehend speech I just streamed books, podcasts, music etc. I did work my way through Bring back the beat just last year… BORING……
This group of CI users has a lot of knowledge you can draw from. Come back and let us know how your going with your rehab. Good luck
Thanks! Amazing how reassuring it is to find out that other people run into the same issues. I felt like a creep saying the app was boring, but decided to take a chance.
I found by just streaming to my CI ear very helpful. Leaving off my HA for rehab pushed my CI ear to do all the work. Have you tried leaving off your first CI, and just work the one side?
Welcome to the forum.
You are doing great with older CI.
I agree with Deaf_piper about streaming to your new CI only. If you can take your older CI processor off and just use the new CI for as long as it takes to get your new CI word understanding in the 70+ range. This was how I trained my first CI. The second CI I was fortunate to have pretty good understanding at activation.
Good luck with your new CI.
Agree! I had good understanding from the start - so audio books and the phone number on the Cochlear site for blue tooth phone practice has been helpful.
