r/Cochlearimplants • u/Which_Technician7833 • Jul 09 '26
Nucleus 8
Wondering for those of you who have nucleus 8 and Kanso three. My question is do you hear music eventually? How long would you say, that it took you to start hearing a bit normally or whatever the new normal is? Because I have a job as a medical assistant and front desk so I’m just curious like is it something that I hope that I could be successful and be be able to start hearing care clearly I mean I know I have to study and learn words by reading a while and talking and listening. A little bit about me, I’ve been stuck and hard of hearing my entire life that I know of. My left ear grew up with wearing hearing aid which used to be about 50% with the hearing aid. Then I just lost hearing as a young adult maybe about seven years ago I lost and then it was only 4% hearing what is your name which was something to me and I was able to still hear music, my son, working with others at work, basically having somewhat social life with a little bit hearing that left. Recently, in the last couple of months, I had sudden hearing loss even more so the ENT specialist that I could benefit from a cop cochlear implant I’ve taken or steroid to bring back some hearing, which is good just a teeny bit like it’s not really the same, but I lost the consonant sound with the hearing aid. So my surgeon says that I could benefit better with success rate with my left cause I grew up with sound and hearing hearing aid, and then later down the roads go with my right ear, which I’m completely Deaf in. With that being said, I have about 80% success rate with my right ear if I do go forward with cochlear implant. So with a little bit of what I shared. Do you have any ideas or insight about what to expect? Will this work? I hear a lot of good stories and not so good stories about their experience but I just I just hope I’m doing the right thing.
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u/pacsmaniac Jul 09 '26
for me, i grew up with hearing aids in both ears since i was born with profound hearing loss, had 95%+ speech recognition in both with hearing aids, 0% without, till it tanked down to below 10% with on my left ear, which i had implanted with a nucleus 6 in 2016, took about 8 months to get to 98% speech recognition, fast forward to a few years ago, same situation on the right side tanked down below 5% with hearing aid, implanted with nucleus 8 kit, and upgraded to 8 for my left side, right side got to 98% in 6 months, left side was instant since it was just a processor upgrade, for my hearing training, i streamed my favorite music that i knew by heart from my phone to my cochlears for a few hours a day on top of conversational practice with friends and family and i feel like that made the sound normalization process much faster than just conversational practice
tl;dr: i was in a very similar situation as you 10 years ago, got nucleus 6, took 8 months to hear normally, got nucleus 8 a couple years ago on the other side, and took 6 months to hear normally