Date
|
Event
|
| May 1972 |
Born |
| 1975 |
Wears hearing aids for the first time |
| 1995 |
Drops out from higher education, due to hearing |
| 2001 |
Looses job, gets divorced |
| Early 2006 |
First thought of getting CI |
| Oct. 2006 |
Suffering full burnout syndrome collapse |
| 28.12.2006 |
Starting ci4me2007.wordpress.com blog |
| Late 2006 |
My GP sends me to specialist as CI candidate |
| Late 2006 |
Begins cognitive therapy to counter depression |
| 23.01.2007 |
Specialist gives me status as CI candidate |
| 14.05.2007 |
Joins Facebook |
| 08.06.2007 |
Tinnitus begins to get seriously bad |
| 14.09.2007 |
Complains about fatigue and eye problems |
| 05.11.2077 |
Mourns the loss of music |
| 06.11.2007 |
First notion of migraine |
| 22.01.2008 |
Self-diagnose myself with “recruitment” |
| 26.03.2009 |
Rikshospitalet gives me date for pre-trial |
| 21.07.2009 |
First CI surgery, right ear |
| 28.08.2009 |
Tinnitus worse, explosive terrorizing LOUD |
| 07.09.2009 |
First CI activation, right ear |
| 2010 |
Health improves somewhat |
| 18.01.2012 |
Second CI surgery, left ear |
| 27.02.2012 |
Second CI activation, right ear |
| Sad fact: |
It took 6 years for the public health service in Norway to give me both CIs. |
| Sad fact II: |
I could have been diagnosed deaf in 2004! |
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 
March 14, 2012 at 12:44 am
has your tinnitus gone .now that you have got 2 cis
did the second ci stop the tinnitus in any way
March 14, 2012 at 1:04 am
Sorry you are the first person that i have come across with 2 cis
and that has had tinnitus.It has been a very hard road for you and i wish you all the best.
May 8, 2012 at 11:44 pm
Christian – I’ve had bad tinnitus all my life, mostly musical hallucinations. I have 2 CIs and the tinnitus is much much better since my operations. On some days I don’t notice it or it is absent. When I’m tired, it comes back but it’s usually a buzz rather than an orchestra or a drunken choir 🙂
May 10, 2012 at 7:35 pm
Hello Tina
Thanks so much for the reply,My partner can hear very well from the first ci it just the tinnitus and it is
extremely bad in unimplanted ear and sometimes passes over to the implanted side.Her life has been crippled by tinnitus.Its such a big decision to go for a 2 ci so im so glad it worked out for you.
And Thanks again for letting me know there are others with the same problem