Page 1 of 1 [ 9 posts ]
04 Nov 2016, 1:55 am
auntblabby
Veteran
Joined: 12 Feb 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 115,258
Location: the island of defective toy santas
04 Nov 2016, 2:04 am
glad to hear it! 
can you tell me, will this be your first time being able to hear, or were you born hearing but lost it earlier in your life?
04 Nov 2016, 2:40 am
Best of luck, im sure your going to be overwhelmed and happy when you get to hear for the first time! 
04 Nov 2016, 2:58 am
auntblabby wrote:
glad to hear it! can you tell me, will this be your first time being able to hear, or were you born hearing but lost it earlier in your life?
can you tell me, will this be your first time being able to hear, or were you born hearing but lost it earlier in your life?yeah i born Deaf
04 Nov 2016, 3:03 am
Uncle wrote:
Best of luck, im sure your going to be overwhelmed and happy when you get to hear for the first time!
yeah i have High Pain tolerance i can handle pain from sunburn and knee joints i had get up but i can feel it oh crap that pain so i need someone help me get up so finally it works i heard crack sound must be hurt like hell but didnt cry about it lol so that autistic thing?
auntblabby
Veteran
Joined: 12 Feb 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 115,258
Location: the island of defective toy santas
04 Nov 2016, 3:06 am
my best advice to you, Berabara, is to treat the sound you hear from your implant, as an extention to the tactile sound sensations you feel through your skin at present. it has been shown in studies that the skin/skeletal structure can "hear" loud sounds up to about 500 cycles per second. your implant should both 1]enable you to aurally hear quiet sounds [like another person whispering at you] and 2] additionally hear higher-pitched sounds [above 500 cycles] such as birdsong. you have a new world waiting for you. 
in terms of loud sounds, I am sure there is a way for you to turn it off. the sounds of crackling fall into 2 categories- soft crackles such as what you hear from a roaring fire or old phonograph records, and sharp crackles such as gunfire, fireworks, smashing objects. the former group are not unpleasant while the latter can be.
04 Nov 2016, 8:10 am
auntblabby wrote:
my best advice to you, Berabara, is to treat the sound you hear from your implant, as an extention to the tactile sound sensations you feel through your skin at present. it has been shown in studies that the skin/skeletal structure can "hear" loud sounds up to about 500 cycles per second. your implant should both 1]enable you to aurally hear quiet sounds [like another person whispering at you] and 2] additionally hear higher-pitched sounds [above 500 cycles] such as birdsong. you have a new world waiting for you. in terms of loud sounds, I am sure there is a way for you to turn it off. the sounds of crackling fall into 2 categories- soft crackles such as what you hear from a roaring fire or old phonograph records, and sharp crackles such as gunfire, fireworks, smashing objects. the former group are not unpleasant while the latter can be.
in terms of loud sounds, I am sure there is a way for you to turn it off. the sounds of crackling fall into 2 categories- soft crackles such as what you hear from a roaring fire or old phonograph records, and sharp crackles such as gunfire, fireworks, smashing objects. the former group are not unpleasant while the latter can be.Its easy to turn off coclear implants if you've had enough. You simply remove the external portion. They are held on by magnets. Completely painless. At least that part is. I assume the surgery has some pain involved. All surgeries do.
I'm interested in your thought that sound is just an extension of vibrations. Of course, that's true. I just haven't heard anyone else getting that before. I never thought that this fact might help someone with new coclears, but all of my experience with them is in pre-school aged children. From that point of veiw, its really not a whole new sense - hearing - but a refinement of a pre-existing sense - touch.
06 Nov 2016, 9:32 pm
somanyspoons wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
my best advice to you, Berabara, is to treat the sound you hear from your implant, as an extention to the tactile sound sensations you feel through your skin at present. it has been shown in studies that the skin/skeletal structure can "hear" loud sounds up to about 500 cycles per second. your implant should both 1]enable you to aurally hear quiet sounds [like another person whispering at you] and 2] additionally hear higher-pitched sounds [above 500 cycles] such as birdsong. you have a new world waiting for you. in terms of loud sounds, I am sure there is a way for you to turn it off. the sounds of crackling fall into 2 categories- soft crackles such as what you hear from a roaring fire or old phonograph records, and sharp crackles such as gunfire, fireworks, smashing objects. the former group are not unpleasant while the latter can be.
in terms of loud sounds, I am sure there is a way for you to turn it off. the sounds of crackling fall into 2 categories- soft crackles such as what you hear from a roaring fire or old phonograph records, and sharp crackles such as gunfire, fireworks, smashing objects. the former group are not unpleasant while the latter can be.Its easy to turn off coclear implants if you've had enough. You simply remove the external portion. They are held on by magnets. Completely painless. At least that part is. I assume the surgery has some pain involved. All surgeries do.
I'm interested in your thought that sound is just an extension of vibrations. Of course, that's true. I just haven't heard anyone else getting that before. I never thought that this fact might help someone with new coclears, but all of my experience with them is in pre-school aged children. From that point of veiw, its really not a whole new sense - hearing - but a refinement of a pre-existing sense - touch.
im getting this The Nucleus® 6 System
http://www.cochlear.com/wps/wcm/connect ... s-6-system
07 Nov 2016, 11:49 am
Berabara wrote:
somanyspoons wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
my best advice to you, Berabara, is to treat the sound you hear from your implant, as an extention to the tactile sound sensations you feel through your skin at present. it has been shown in studies that the skin/skeletal structure can "hear" loud sounds up to about 500 cycles per second. your implant should both 1]enable you to aurally hear quiet sounds [like another person whispering at you] and 2] additionally hear higher-pitched sounds [above 500 cycles] such as birdsong. you have a new world waiting for you. in terms of loud sounds, I am sure there is a way for you to turn it off. the sounds of crackling fall into 2 categories- soft crackles such as what you hear from a roaring fire or old phonograph records, and sharp crackles such as gunfire, fireworks, smashing objects. the former group are not unpleasant while the latter can be.
in terms of loud sounds, I am sure there is a way for you to turn it off. the sounds of crackling fall into 2 categories- soft crackles such as what you hear from a roaring fire or old phonograph records, and sharp crackles such as gunfire, fireworks, smashing objects. the former group are not unpleasant while the latter can be.Its easy to turn off coclear implants if you've had enough. You simply remove the external portion. They are held on by magnets. Completely painless. At least that part is. I assume the surgery has some pain involved. All surgeries do.
I'm interested in your thought that sound is just an extension of vibrations. Of course, that's true. I just haven't heard anyone else getting that before. I never thought that this fact might help someone with new coclears, but all of my experience with them is in pre-school aged children. From that point of veiw, its really not a whole new sense - hearing - but a refinement of a pre-existing sense - touch.
im getting this The Nucleus® 6 System
http://www.cochlear.com/wps/wcm/connect ... s-6-system
Oooo! Fancy. I always say, if you're going to go bionic, make sure they use the best parts.
