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!