I enjoy listening to you. My son was implanted 12 days ago in Cambridge. He is currently suffering from post op skin and ear infection. It is quite scary for a parent. Your videos give me comfort. Thank you ❤

My Dr Doesnt believe in frequent adjustments . He thinks you will get better results if you let your brain do the work

I am about to start pre assessment for CI. I came across your platform and listened to almost all your videos. My fears are lifted and I found myself feeling impatient to now wait. I got inspired by you 🫶

Such a wonderful video. Thank you!

Why are the captions autogenerated, and not a personalised script? This is disappointing given the subject and the targeted audience.

Thank you! I just had my surgery on the 29th (single-sided deafness) and am getting prepared for activation. Awesome tips in your video.

الرجاء مساعدتي على شراء مثل هذه الالة السمعية الجهاز الخارجي للقوقعة وجزاكم الله خيرا وفي حسناتكم ارجوكم

Hi, there just check out your video. I am consider to have my left ear for cochlear implant. Being doing OCD on information. I found your video very information. Also, gay here. You very attractive man. Made you find your soulmate. Cheer from USA

Good to see you! Very interesting video, Stuart! --- I hope you have much success with your youtube channel!

wow its amazing how the hearing impaired community is so supportive. but i am apart of the blind community as well as the hearing impaired comunity 5:05 5:20

I’m not a cooker, implant user, but I am a hearing aid user I just like to get more info on other options. There are for other ways to be able to hear better and able to hear again even though I’m a hearing aid user and I love my hearing aids forever, and always anyway. 3:16

Hi Stuart 🙂 Do you have idea why I can't hear any words or identifiable sound after more than a month since my cochlear implant activation? I only feel heartbeat or electrical pulses in my left ear and faint bell sound on my right ear. I hope you can guide me. Thanks 🙂

Hi, I had my kanso 2 processor for both ears last Feb 1 2022. I'm wondering why i still don't hear words or regular sounds as of today 12 march 2022. I only feel heartbeat or electrical pulses in my left ear and faint bell sound on my right ear. Is this normal? When can I hear words or normal sound?

Such a good thing Stuart!

Great Interview! It's true that people who are considering cochlear implant should meet CI users. We have lots of lovely support groups all over UK. Keep doing what you are doing Stu!

👏👏 insightful

Great episode ! I do feel what you've been through. I"ve had severe hearing loss since i was a baby at 9 months old diagnose with meningitis. Been wearing bilateral hearing aids ever since all my life until one day i became dizzy/vertigo,tinnutis and discovered more hearing loss on my left ear! It was a sad moment because it was to the point where my hearing aids no longer benefited me! I went to a new audiologist that specialize hearing and balance disorders to help my vertigo problems! Well low and behold the first thing she did was take a hearing test, and as soon she completed and walked in the booth , she ask why I don't consider cochlear implant ! I said all my life i would of never thought I'd be a candidate or eligible for a cochlear implant!. I was shocked as she told me I'm highly qualified to have the implant and that in the past the criteria was mostly strictly for profound hearing losses and kept to a minimum group of people! But here we are in the modern technological world that Cochlear implants even open the door for more eligible participants and I still can't believe this was happening! So here I begin my journey to become the new me! Make long story short about my history, I'm 48 years old , wore bilateral hearing since the age of 18 months old. mainstream in regular class with honors, went to college for 3 years and pursued a degree in Radiologic technologist performing medical Xrays/and Cat scans. It was a tough journey to go to school and do my profession because it took major efforts to explain my peers on how to communicate with me as I was a great lip reader! so far I'm still doing my job and going on 22 years ! Wow time past fast and absolutely bless to be working! Now flash back 2 years ago when I started having vertico /tinnitus my world change because it was the starting point or considering a cochlear implant and looking forward hearing much better than my old outdated hearings which would no longer benefit me nearly like an implant would! In September 2021 I received a left cochlear implant on my left ear, I chose the cochlear America, nucleus7 and Kanso2. Activated on October 19th, once activated I was frustrated because it was no where what I thought it would be ! All I was hearing on the implant was bells and whistles! Boy, talk about I was down. But the Audiologist reassure me to not get frustrated because its not an overnite remedy! So here I go doing auditory therapy and its slowly helping me every week as I'm going on 4 months . But I'm glad to find you here and you definitely raise my esteem that my implant will be the Wonderful thing!. As of now I'm still struggling to get clear sound from the implants but I'm hanging in there and doing my homework to listening programs and auditory therapy. I'm schedule to do my right ear this summer in August ! Will keep you updated as I'm starting a new me! Keep up the videos and make wonderful episodes as I enjoy watching and listening!

Hi Stuart, I've been following your journey which has been incredible and fantastic to hear from other implanted users. Thank you for your time and sharing your knowledge. I'm in the UK, got a yes from the surgeon for my right ear yesterday. Now to wait for the pre-op assessment from Bristol and an op date! (I'm going with Advanced Bionics as they have a link hearing aid for my left ear) ☺️ Here's to a noisy future! 🥳 Be awesome to be able to hear bacon sizzling and all the other sounds I don't pick up! Thank you for always being awesome! I look forward to more of your content as always. 🥳 x

In the mornings at 10.00 while having my coffee I just want silence:)

Great video, so informative. Thank you so much🙏

So nice to hear you back Stuart. Just to catch up with you, I wrote a comment a few months ago about my son. He was already bilaterally implanted on October 28th and after November 30th they were activated. He has being using the processors like a real champ all day and detecting new sounds. Greetings my friend

Thank you, my second child’s CI was recently activated, I appreciate your efforts in sharing your story.

Hi Stuart. I'm a father of a two (2) years old kid who was diagnosed with a severe hearing loss. Honestly, I feel devastated thinking that I had to notice it or act before. We're currently in the process for evaluating if He's a candidate for cochlear implants. We are lucky to live in Orlando, Florida (USA), where we found a fully commitment team of doctors and specialists for him. I found your words absolutely hopeful and sincerely, they encourage me to think that We are not late, and if we put a 110% of effort during the rehabilitation, We might get really good improvements and a bright future for him. Thank you so much my friend.

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My wife fully and suddenly lost her hearing last year. Switch on is in two weeks. What a year it has been. Thank you for this video to give me an insight into what might happen. We really are hoping for the best.

God Bless🤗 Conversation between Jessica & Stuart was very motivating & informative. They were sharing their experiences on cochlear implants which will be helpful to many. I was overwhelmed to see the confidence of this beautiful young girl, who has a heart of gold. I was impressed to see, sharing her email n ready to help others. Her parents also did not give up & faced it bravely to see their daughter make them proud.

Very interesting conversation. Very inspiring. Well done 👍

Amazing & inspiring conversation Jessica & Stuart 👌👌

Listening to your story. I can relate to everything. 🥺 I feel exactly that isolation. Exactly everything you say I have been through. I am 32 and now facing the question must I do the cochlear implant or just carry on with hearing aids. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Does it connect to iPhone?

Also, what are your favorite links for auditory training? It would be great if they were all organized in one list or site for ease of picking up anytime.

Good tips. Lately, I asked audiologist for a mute program added to my processor for use when city or restaurant sounds wear me down. That was really helpful! I also suggested an intermission at audiologist's clinic to walk around lobby or waiting room to try out environmental sounds and people talking in my new mapping like trying a shoe out for size. That was helpful. I also had created a third program for enhanced music listening as I originally found that some sounds were missed. Would it be nice if audiologist had an electronic keyboard in room so that I can try out all the notes for discrinination apart? Though I am not Beethoven, I really love music.

thank you for explaining, I wasn't sure if I wanted to get one, now I definitely do!

My c2 implant came in 2003

Very touching

Looking forward to hear how your story continues!!

How come you have 2 cochlear implant as I was born deaf and struggle get 2nd implant I love know how you got it.

Fantastic Stuart.. SO happy for you and those who are able to have a cochlear implant! Thank you for these wonderful updates.

Thank you so much for sharing.I have lost my hearing since the begging on this pandemic madness.And have been hesitant to go into the implant procedure (basically I'm a afraid of the surgery in my head).But stories like this are encouraging people to go ahead and take the next step..Thanks for posting.

I have lovely but strange deaf acquaintance who thinks that people who get cochlear implants are "traitors" to deaf-culture. He's okay at lip-reading but it's difficult to converse with him. He believes that the world has an obligation to him to learn ASL rather than he working harder on his speaking skills. I can understand him, but it's a struggle. I had to train my brain to understand him and it's still difficult. (Sometimes it's too difficult and I'll kind of avoid spending a lot of time with him whenever we're at the same social gathering or event.) Is this common? What do you say to someone who embraces their own deafness so closely because they believe it makes them "who they are"? Is this peer-pressure from the deaf-community who feel that a member would be "betraying" others if they could hear?

You're looking good! Glad to see you're doing well. We miss you on Facebook... but I wish you the best of luck and much success with your youtube channel. 🍾🥂

excellent Stuart just too bitchin !!!

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Great I'm from Colombia,i´m from Bogotá, but I have a Compilot neck but a little bit very uncomfortable and this latest technology is super cool ..

How did you pair it?

I just celebrated 14 years Advanced Bionics Cochlear Implants, I have two Naida Q90‘s and I absolutely the Ci Connect. Iam 15 years old and happy about having the ability to hear with my Cochlear Implants. Greetings from Germany❤️🇩🇪

I absolutely LOVE my Ci Connect, I use bilateral AB ci‘s since 2006, Iam born in 2005 ❤️

Hi! Did you use Cued Speech during speech therapy as a child ?

Stuart, if you are still monitoring your KZbin video of the CI Connect, which is really great, I have a question! I think I notice you have the CI Connect on just your right processor. If I'm correct on that, are you hearing the TV in only your right ear? Or do you actually have a CI Connect on both of your processors? If so, are they both working off of the one TV Connector or do you need two TV Connectors, one for each CI Connect? I can't imagine having to have two TV Connectors! Thanks.