Cochlear Implant Surgery & Recovery - My Journey
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- My journey through a cochlear implant surgery for my asymmetric hearing loss. I am only getting one cochlear implant for my left side. I have had hearing loss since my childhood, and I could not hear on my left side for about 10 years. This video will discuss the surgery process and recovery.
Disclaimer: This video does not provide medical advice or replace a medical professional. This content is a vlog of my personal experience and opinions.
Content for this Video:
00:00 - Intro
00:36 - At The Hospital Before Surgery
00:46 - Right After Surgery
01:12 - Describing the Day of Surgery
08:57 - Car Ride Home from the Hospital
10:22 - At Home
11:09 - Symptoms
11:44 - Clothing Choices
12:24 - Tinnitus
12:54 - Travis Brought Me Flowers
13:48 - Taking the Bandage Off
19:58 - My Scar
20:17 - Conclusion
Thank you for making and sharing your experience with implant surgery. I am 69 and have surgery this Friday. You are braver than me. Yjank you again. It has helped to answer many if the unknowns about recovery.
I am also 69 and getting ready for it! Hope yours went well.
LOVE these videos. I was deaf in my right ear for over 30 years. I had a new ear drum put in tympanoplasty. Gnarly surgery where they slice under your ear to fold over the ear to get inside of the ear. 4 and 1/2 hour surgery. I received 10% hearing in my right ear. Recovery was over a month. They fill your ear canal with a goo that's antibacterial then they plug your ear hole with a sponge thing, similar to ear plugs. For the first time in a long time I felt those little bones in my ear vibrate, I felt it. I listened to music all of the time. Just love seeing these faces when they hear. Beautiful
24 hours ago I had the surgery and I returned at home today. For now it doesn't hurt much, I must do slow head movements. I got the Advanced Bionics one. Thank you for your videos. Greetings from Italy.
Thank you for having the courage to make this video. I will be starting my journey on March 15,2024. I really appreciate it and just want to say thank you and god bless you🙏🏾❤
Thank you for this. I am having a CT scan this week to check everything will be ok. I have chronic pain so have wires in one side of my head. The plan is to work on the other side. I’m nervous for the surgery but you finished with saying you were going to adjust. A perfect way of describing it.
Hi Nessa, I wanted to inform you that I have my surgery date it Feb 15, 2024 I will have my CI on my right ear. You videos has be so helpful my activation date is Feb 28 2024. Thank you again for making these videos I have watched them all and many times over lol
Oh wow! I have mine coming up this Friday and just a bit nervous haha
@@AlertGaming-jq9xs Yeah I know what you mean I just went to see my surgeon today to discuss my MRI and CT it's all a go! I believe you will do fine. I am so excited lol
Hi, this is a great video. I had my cochlear implant surgery just over a week ago now so I'm just a bit behind you. It was interesting to see how it works in the USA. I'm in Britain and I had to stay overnight in the hospital when I had my surgery. I made a video about it on my channel if you're interested. I wish you the best of luck with your cochlear implant.
Nelle xx
Great video keep me posted
That kast last piece is called a steripad, that stays there until your post op follow up
Thank you for posting
I'm having newest osia implant on February 16.
Hi Nessa, how did you get this procedure covered as they don’t cover it for SSD?
What is your experience til this day? Do you notice difference in sound between two ears?
I have moderate hearing loss in my right ear so I am technically not a single-side deafness candidate. I have asymmetric hearing loss. This might have made it why it was covered for me. I don't notice the sound difference between the two ears. Everything blends together well so I don't notice the difference. I would say that it took time and practice to get to this point though. It was not immediate.
I have single-sided deafness and my insurance covered it. They now cover it years ago they didn't cover single-sided deafness for Cochlear implant candidates.
@@miningmonkey760I have single-sided deafness, too, so it is hard to hear my parents talking, but the tinnitus sounded like the melodies of all the songs.
Sometimes my right ear doesn’t work since I don’t have a right eardrum so I was with single sided deafness, so I may use sign language instead. I hope I will sign all the lyrics with songs.
My tinnitus and ringing in my ears did the melodies to all the songs.
Is a cochlear implant better than a bone bridge in terms of sound quality and headaches/tinnitus? Anyone?
In the case of one sided hearing loss.. The bone bridge doesn't give you any sound on the bad side, it just relays the sound over to the good side.. so it doesn't help with localization and sound direction.
@ thank you 🙏 I’m recently deaf in both ears. I’m using a bone conduction amplifier on my forehead. TB in the mastoids. I’m leaning toward cochlear implants on both sides.
@@happysocks953 Yeah cochlear implants is the way to go for sure. I am getting one on my deaf side in January. Very excited! Had a deaf ear for almost 14 years.