In my last post, I mentioned that I’d noticed a decline in quality on the left side. About a month ago, my audiologist had someone from AB come and do an integrity test. Today I found out the results, and it turns out that 6 of the 16 electrodes are failing as a result of the same issue that AB issued a recall notice for in late 2019. She turned off those electrodes and tweaked my program, but it sounds even worse. Still, I decided to give it a chance and see if it gets better as my brain gets used to it. If not, I will ask her to put it back.
In addition, I am going to schedule an appointment to talk to the surgeon about revision surgery (removing the implant and replacing it with a new one). The issue is likely to get worse, and I want to get it fixed as soon as possible.
So yeah, not a great start to the year.
Hi. I just found your blog. I was implanted on February 1 2022 and activated on March 8.I’m trying to learn as much as I can about CIs. Thanks for sharing your experiences!
Hi! How did your activation go?
BTW, if you’d like to chat with other CI folks, check out the CI Community Discord at https://discord.gg/g5P756sN
This is a fairly active chat server where there are people with all 3 brands as well as people who are considering CIs, and friends and family of people who have them. (I’m “stitchinthyme9” there.)