The Dr. Cliff Show Episode 21 | Cochlear Implant Brands & Surgery

[@DrCliffAuD]

Custom Closed Captions from the Live show coming! Please be patient with us. 🙏

[@sammyruth-777]

I meant to say hearing aid brand , i.e., phonak, resound, signia, etc. I have someone I am working with in your network. She is incredible and very knowledgeable and we are meeting later this week. In 2022 this KZbin channel and best practices network in finding her has been a huge game changer regarding my full scale through the years of Meneire’s, tinnitus and hearing loss. My hearing loss challenges has been a long journey and the last attack set me on a course to regain my lifestyle that I had lost, to have the right audiologists and to be more educated. I’ve learned the hard way of the importance in this area. I am now fully engaged and also do my own research in advance (my homework) to maximize our appointments and love that it is embraced. I must say she is very understanding as to where I am in this journey. I live in Iowa.

[@taxicabs96]

My wife got meningitis and apart from nearly died she lost all hearing and after getting implants at Queen Square London UK she can hear so well

[@bknagz]

Hi Dr Cliff, Glad to see you're back to doing the Dr. Cliff Show! I don't know if it is out of bounds or egotistical of me, but I am trying to use my experiences as of late to become a stronger advocate for cochlear implants. Unfortunately, I don't have a platform. For a bit of an introduction, I am 33 years old with bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss. I first was diagnosed with hearing loss when I was in kindergarten, and over time it progressed worse and worse until I was profoundly deaf to anything over 1000Hz during my middle/high school years. It slowly continued to progress, and I received my first cochlear implant this past July. I will be receiving my 2nd implant this upcoming Monday, on 11/27. But where the uniqueness comes from is that I was completely awake during my cochlear implant surgery. Local Anesthesia along the incision site with periodic numbing agent as drilling got deeper and deeper towards the cochlea. The entire point of doing it awake was to try to help preserve my residual hearing. I had an earbud in the ear being implanted, and they would play an audible tone periodically throughout the procedure. The focus was heightened during electrode insertion. And sure enough, I didn't perceive any change in the amplitude of the sounds being played after the electrode was all the way in. Subsequent air conduction testing confirmed there was little-to-no loss to residual hearing in my implanted ear. I was watching your podcast #20, where it was mentioned that some great candidates could be turned away due to the inability to be placed under general anesthesia, and it struck a chord with me. You may or may not receive messages like this all the time, but i feel like I have a great story to tell that would end up being a great podcast episode. While I may not be a hearing care professional, I feel like I could be a great special guest on one of your shows. I believe you made a remark on one of your videos that your Dr. Cliff Show episodes with guests tend to perform better than others. So being a guest on your show could very well be a win-win! Like I said, I am trying to advocate more for cochlear implants, and especially for having the procedure done while awake. Not only was I completely awake during the surgery, but my surgeon was able to display his microscopic view onto a monitor, and I actually watched my own cochlear implant surgery take place in real time. I watched (and heard) him drill into my skull, all the way into the facial recess. I could even make out the round window once we reached it. My upcoming surgery will be performed while I am awake as well, and I hope to be able to watch it again! Bottom line, I have mass media experience on the radio from college and am well spoken, and I feel like a strong episode of the Dr. Cliff show could be created around the telling of my story. And I feel like if even a single person, who may not have been a candidate due to the inability to go under general anesthesia now has the chance to potentially receive an implant, it is completely worth it. Because I know what it is like to have a profound hearing loss, to go through the barrage of testing for an implant candidacy evaluation, only to be turned away. (I made my first attempt in 2011, but my sentence recognition scores were barely too good for the thresholds at that time. I was devastated) I could talk about and easily eat a huge chunk of time about my experience and answer any sort of question that may be asked. Again, this may be out of bounds or egotistical, but my surgeon sort of made an off-the-cuff remark (during the middle of my surgery) that I could very well be the first person to watch their own cochlear implant surgery in real time. Probably not, but it is certainly possible. If you have zero interest in having some random cochlear implant recipient on your podcast, I apologize, but again, I feel like I have a unique experience, without there being any extraordinary circumstances to prompt those experiences. I'm just a normal guy whose only medical abnormality is that I am deaf. No matter, I have recently stumbled across your channel because, depside all of the issues it has caused me throughout my entire life, I love the science of hearing, and the hearing mechanism. I also love your presentation style and energy you bring to your craft. Let me know your thoughts. I completely understand if there is simply zero interest in the matter. Sorry for the long comment, Thank you for your time

[@tonyquinlan7341]

I have watched all 3 videos to get me motivated as i am visiting my ENT doctor about getting a coclear implant hope all goes well.

[@alanfox8325]

Thank you for your very complete discussion. I am bilateral CA N7. The more you put into following your CI Audiologist advice or homework, the happier you will be with your decision to get implanted. And YES the chipmunks went away within a few weeks and mostly after the first mapping/programming post activation. Thank you so much for the time you and your team do to prepare each week, it shows!

[@nelsangelin9667]

Hearing is amazing how it works. I understand what you said about how the cochlear works with all the different regions of the cochlea because I have studied and researched all the anatomy. It is amazing that hearing takes place in the brain. The ear only funnels sound to the nerves in the cochlea and the cochlear nerve on to the brain to process. Is the CI the same as normal hearing, No. Most hearing loss is due to the loss of hair cells not functioning. The CI activates the same nerve going to the brain but without the modulation from the missing hair cells.

[@canada957]

Very informative and helpful to my impending journey to a cochlear implant! Thank you so much!

[@blindpanthervlogs]

When I got my medal cochlear implant in 2017 I actually stayed in the hospital overnight because I had such a bad experience with a previous eye surgery and also I had to go to a teaching hospital that was three hours away from where I live. Dammit I wish I had that t mike though. Maybe Meadow will come out with one.

[@blindpanthervlogs]

I remember, I had to actually plug my good ear so that the sound coming from the cochlear implant would sound more natural. When I first got it, it sounded completely robotic but overtime I was even able to pick up the accent of my favorite teams, play-by-play guy. Yes I did my verbal audio therapy by watching a football game.

[@carlosvidal2220]

Videos like this, I wished would be available at the time of my decision to choose. My audiologist was unable to suggest places or media in order to get some knowledge previously.

[@Swordfish_]

You can use the artone telicoil neckloop to stream to a Medel cochlear implant and a hearing aid at the same time. You only have to pick one or the other if your are using Bluetooth. 32:50

[@andyf5992]

Hi, Thanks for another very informative session. I have perfect hearing in one ear; but have severe (80db+) hearing loss from sudden single-sided sensorineural hearing loss in the other ear, which I lost over 10 years ago. Right now I may "hear" sounds with an adjusted hearing aid, but no "comprehension" of speech & sounds in affected ear registers in my brain. Whilst understand every case is different, based on cases you have seen , read or heard about, what's the likelihood of gradually regaining workable hearing in my affected ear from using a CI? Thanks.

[@skypodimages]

I'm 60 and I've had a BAHA for 20yrs (left ear) after two failed stepidctomys losing all my hearing (0% word rec). Right ear has been declining and I'll be getting a hearing aid. My Audiologist says I'm a good candidate for a CI- left side and remove the BAHA. I'm trying to research this unique situation to better understand the potential outcomes- CI vs BAHA. Do you have any recommendation? Thank you.

[@sammyruth-77]

Thank you for your channel. It is very informative. Question. I have Meniere's ear in my right ear for 38 years and through the years I have loss hearing in my left ear. I had a severe attack and have loss more hearing in my right ear. I am looking at the AMP Cros. Can you share all hearing aid providers that have the AMP Cros feature?

[@DrCliffAuD]

This is a very niche programming technique. Where do you live?

[@trudyexquisite2475]

Thank you and your team! I’m waiting to be implanted with Med El and can’t wait ❤ I’m going to be Bimodal and not sure which new hearings to get to use with MedEl as yet. Oticon or starkey. Currently a phonak Virto m30 ITE. Can’t understand nada with these lol

[@Wrighjj]

Please provide links to part 1 and part 2.

[@blindpanthervlogs]

My hearing was so bad in the ear that I got a clear implant on that even though I lost all the hearing I had left in that ear I wasn’t missing much.

[@natesworld315]

Sounds like music is still very much lacking. So much research is focused on speech not music. If only the processor could take advantage of more electrodes or channels or AI.

[@carlosvidal2220]

I got the ABadvancedbionics my problem is, it is hard to understand people, only really works if you are in closed conditions. Also, as bad as what I said, the perception of music is not good. works better combined with other side hearing aid, and coordinates well, still, music is not well perceived.

[@animemanman6368]

Doctor doctor, When there will be gene therapy for hearing loss?

[@iluvj50]

Is anyone aware of someone with CIs who says music sounds as good as it did before their hearing loss?

[@michelledawsons]

What if you have tryed everything and your ear is still plugged up

[@DrCliffAuD]

You go to a doctor.

[@Tfichtenbaum]

so the CI just by passes the damaged cillia in the cochlea and straight into the nerve itself ...interesting

[@samcroce1859]

Advanced something in processors curve

[@sue3745]

What is phonak?

[@lovelyako9445]

It’s a brand name for hearing aids.