Curious why so many do not consider cochlear implant

If this gets over the line, it might push me closer.

Sensorion study reveals breakthrough drug therapy can prevent residual...10

Melbourne ENT surgeon Professor Stephen O’Leary has revealed encouraging results from a trial of cochlear implant patients who received drug treatment to preserve residual hearing.

@d_Wooluf that sounds like an excellent drug in the short term it’s used for. But what happens to your residual long term? They didn’t mention that at all. My residual dropped out at 15 months post surgery. None of the Medicos I’ve spoken too can give a reason as to why this happens, it just does.

Public sector I mean public health care industry. Here in Ohio you cant even see a surgeon for 6 months. Then it could take up to a year to even get the surgery. Then you gotta waot for it to heal then monkey around with underachieving audiologists. I’ve been profoundly hard of hearing for 40 years. I’ve seen many audi’s locally, domestically and abroad. Public sector audiology is disgusting here. When i sit down with these audi’s they are clueless. They are just numbers in the failed medical system. Go to a private audiologist, in my experience they actually know what they are doing. Their reputation is on the line, they are established, they are ambitious, they arent just an unqualified number meeting some unrealistic underqualified quota. If i see an audi at my corporate public sector health care provider, i cant get a follow appt for 3 months, and if im lucky, i might see that initial audi, but its an 80% chance ill see whoever they give me and i cant establish a relationship bouncing from audi to audi. Its purely monetizing profits from insurance agencies. I’d rather go to india and get a CI. I know some of these audi’s personally thru coworkers, friends, family. They have small windows of 15 or 30 min if you’re lucky, they are expected to sell X amount of devices a month even if its not the proper device, and if they dont perform their quotas they get fired and find someone else to comply.

It happened to me when i got a BAHA, the surgeon sold me a cochlear baha 6 max, before i understood bones lines, now that i do understand the lines, it was visibly significantly underpowered. But he went ahead anyway and wasted my time. Then tried to blame me, expected me to pay out the behind. When i got lawyers involved, the stuff they found was just a straight scam. Utter failure of patient concern. Gross negligence. And this guy was supposed to be a “leader in the nation”.

I grew up un the deaf community. Went to deaf school, have a large network of deaf people, i know a lot of people that have went the CI route and i can honestly say more than 50% of them have had no success with them. And the majority of them attribute it to the audi. Unwilling to help, unavailable to help, wait 3 months for an appointment. Public sector healthcare for audiology is a joke, here in Ohio anyway.

What do you mean by public sector healthcare in Ohio? Those who take Medicare/Medicaid? As compared with those who do not participate in any plan network?

There are likely very few CI surgeons who do not take Medicare/Medicaid. So is the challenge the surgeons or the audiologists needed after CI surgery?

Good Question. Simple Answers

Some what old technology
It could shut down your auditory nerve (permanently)
No guarantee end results
Only three providers (slim pipkins)
Long learning curve - harder for older adults to adjust
Hole drilled in skull
Some historical records of CI defects
Mostly good in quiet environment
Magnet doesn’t always hold exterior parts *whoops"
etc.