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In reply to @jiajia

@jiajia said:

There are outside stares here where I live.

With "off the ear" K2 processors I catch people looking, not all the time but now and then. It's usually young children who I catch looking. I will pull one off and show it to them, then everything is good. Tell them they are my ears to hear.

The N7 and N8 "on the ear" processors would probably be less noticed since they are more hidden and similar to other devices you see on people often.

In reply to @Raudrive

@Raudrive said:

The N7 and N8 "on the ear" processors would probably be less noticed since they are more hidden and similar to other devices you see on people often.

With my a bit longer hair black N8 is almost completely hidden.

It's a nice change compared to my old N6, which I got in 2013 beige, because I didn't have the opportunity to choose a color :/ Choosing color was impossible due to of the hospital policy of the time.

@lello58 said:

bilateral cochlear implant users: are you able to recognize the direction of sounds

Yes, for me it took practice watching and listening to birds in the yard. At first I could hear them but didn't know where they were. It just took some practice.

I’ve read through almost the entire thread, but it doesn’t seem like anyone has mentioned how a hearing aid is adjusted in a setup. Specifically, if I were to receive an implant in my right ear (the worse one) while continuing to use a hearing aid in my left ear, would the current settings remain, or would the hearing aid need to be readjusted to suit the new situation?

Good question. Probably not, given ear is dominant one with good .

Theoretically, some prescription algorithms (probably 5.0, but IIRC, /3 also) take into account fitting (roughly ~+3 correction if HA unilateral). However, I don't know if it's applicable to .

Personally, I have that +3 dB correction.

Based on my experiences and my 100% WRS in HA ear (so take it with a pinch of salt) - better not, I don't want my HA quieter because of CI.

 

The situation may be different when it is the CI that have better speech understanding than HA side, but it is not certain whether the HA should be set quieter then.

The safer general rule is that percepted volume should be balanced on both sides.

Interesting fact: I noticed that even in quiet situation muting HA makes my streamed speech understanding by CI better. It's like neural impulses from the HA ear cause attenuation of neural impulses from CI ear. But - again - that my anectodal experience, I have not read any scientific article about that issue.

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