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points by mi-rae 2 days ago | 0 comments
Yes, I have. For a whole year, I asked about it at every mapping session. But no matter how many times my cochlear implant was remapped, there wasn't much improvement. I still don't know whether the cause lies in my auditory nerve (peripheral) or in how my brain processes sound (central), or something else entirely. I told my audiologist that speech sounds blurred, and I also brought it up with my doctor, but nothing really improved.
[–] menomatter 2 days ago
Do you know if your loss is due to damage to the inner ear or something deeper in the chain?
[–] mi-rae 2 days ago
Unfortunately, I still don't know the answer. At least to my ears, music sounds clear and beautiful, so why is speech so muffled and hard to understand? My hearing loss remains a mystery. A thorough evaluation at a university hospital might reveal the cause, but nothing I can do on my own will uncover it. For now, I'm left with an unresolved limitation: I can't tell whether the problem lies in the peripheral auditory system, the central auditory system, or the cochlear implant itself.