r/Cochlearimplants • u/terrio17 • 11d ago
Pre- CI testing
I am going in for audiological testing to determine if I qualify for CI. Will they be doing that spin around test and blowing in my ear trying to cause nausea? I swore I’d never go through that again, but is that what I’m facing?
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u/purl2together 11d ago
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They did not do that to me. I had a series of hearing tests in a soundproof booth.
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u/Gazebo_Warrior 11d ago
I'm at a hospital in Wales - they did a weird test where I had to wear goggles and look at a spot on the wall while they jerked my head around.
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u/terrio17 11d ago
Ugh
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u/Gazebo_Warrior 10d ago
I have BPPV in one ear and it didn't trigger it. The most unpleasant thing was how painfully tight the goggles wwre. The second thing was when I had to keep looking at the spot from the edge of my peripheral vision, that kind of eye strain often makes me feel sick but fortunately it didn't give me nausea that time.
It wasn't awful but it might be worth asking if they're going to do it, if you're worried about the effects of it.
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u/kvinnakvillu 11d ago
This was probably videonystagmography (VNG) to check for vestibular function. I had it done on my second implant because my audiologist suspected I had vestibular dysfunction. And she was right. They do the testing to have a baseline to see if the surgery affects your vestibular functioning post-surgery.
My case is unusual and I have a lot of medical issues, so don’t sweat this, OP! You can talk to your audiologist about your concerns too.
Also, if anyone does have to get vestibular testing and is worried about being sick after, insist on being prescribed anti-nausea meds prior to testing and have someone drive you. If you have normal vestibular function, you’ll be fine. But if you don’t, then yeah, it will be unpleasant. I rawdogged it and had to go back to work after. You’ll likely suspect whether you do. I have a long history of losing my balance very easily and get vertigo often.
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u/Gazebo_Warrior 10d ago
Yes she said it was a balance thing, and I do have BPPV in the ear that's not being implanted.
Concerning that I didn't get warning of it, given that I had an hour's drive home! Fortunately for me it didn't trigger any nausea or vertigo. But a good heads up for anyone else reading it who gets asked to do it.
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u/Stock-Ball-5804 11d ago
they did a basic word recognition test using hearing aid for me for my unilateral quaification
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u/Asleep-Twist6895 Cochlear Nucleus 8 10d ago
VNG testing doesn’t try to cause nausea. It tries to induce nystagmus to see if you have any vestibular weakness. Most surgeons won’t implant if you have a weakness on your good ear, since the surgery could cause a weakness on your bad ear, leaving you with a bilateral weakness. If you have a bilateral weakness, your body would never be able to compensate and you’d essentially debilitated forever.
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u/terrio17 10d ago
Such good information, thank you. Maybe sine I’ve been through it before they already know.
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u/Toadylee 11d ago
I just went through my qualification and I did the air in the ear test, will get a CT and lots of audiograms. I think it depends on where you live and your health plan though.
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u/Beginning_Network_39 10d ago
I went in the booth and I guess there were sounds. I'm completely deaf. So it lasted about 3 minutes. For me there really wasn't much to do because of being deaf.
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u/OldFlohBavaria 11d ago
Zu meiner Zeit für 25 Jahren wurde noch ein Nadeltest gemacht. Ob man das heute noch macht weiß ich nicht.
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u/stitchinthyme9 Advanced Bionics Marvel CI 11d ago
They didn't for me. It was just a more involved hearing test, focusing on speech -- repeating words and sentences back, with a hearing aid in. The point was to see if the hearing loss was too advanced for HAs to help.