History
This is Dominik, born in 1974 in Munich, Germany. I have been wearing hearing aids since I was 4 years old. At the beginning I was moderately to severely hearing impaired, since 15 years my loss is severe to profound. My speech audiogram with hearing aids gives 55% my audio audiogram shows a loss of 87%. The hearing loss is low in the low frequency range, my hearing in the high frequency range is no longer available. My last hearing aids are Phonak Naida SP. In addition to the hearing impairment, I also suffer from visual impairment.
My ENT has been recommending the step to a cochlear implant since 2016. I always knew that it was a major surgical procedure that could also result in deafness. Since I loved listening to music, I always refused to take this step. In order to enable the best inteligibility I have adapted the hearing aids myself for several years. The Naidas have achieved the best possible result and still have a lot of reserve in their performance so the ultra-power variant brings me nothing.
In particular I have searched and read experience reports, the most interesting one comes from “texboydmoore”
https://forum.hearingtracker.com/t/my-ci-experience-the-diary-of-a-cochlear-implant/33809
My listening curve on the right and left in 2019 was as follows:
dB/Hz 10/125 20/250 35/500 60/750 80/1k 90/2k -/>3k