For streaming to both ears, one a Cochkear and the other a Resound hearing aid, not so good. Music is important to me, but not worth the frustration of trying to get all the equipment to work properly.įor the basic function of listening to conversation, I find Kanso 2 to be great, a life saver, which is why I gave it four stars. I spent an hour or more trying to get it to function again and gave up. When I got up this morning, the device would not stream. But I turned off my devices and plugged them in for recharging overnight. The online help was too complicated for me, so many steps to go through in specific order and finally after months trying off and on, I did get it to stream music last night and it was so nice. Each is them went so far, then told me to go online. I had two different Cochlear-trained technicians as well as a hearing aid specialist try to set it up so I could listen to music. The one word if caution I offer is that the streaming feature is not working for me. The microphone works great using the controller in noisier rooms as well. The Kanso 2 works great for listening to conversations. I hope this helps anyone having trouble or considering a Kanso2. I know I was lucky as my hearing loss was only 4 years vs others with a longer hearing loss time but I am definitely an advocate of the Kanso2. Use tools like YouTube, Spotify, hearing hint & cochlear copilot frequently. I also got a ear plug for my good ear to decrease reliance on that ear and force my CI ear to do the listening (in the safety of my home of course). I would stand under my kitchen clock with no other sounds going on and just listen to the tick, tick, tick.
Listen to a word over and over and over until you can understand it. I encourage all of you to do your best to put in the hearing rehab work and make sure you wear the processor as much as possible. I was worried reading some of the reviews that I would not be happy but I couldn’t be more satisfied. I will say I have always had very short hair and I have continued to buzz the area of my CI to level 1 clipper, but I feel that is a small sacrifice for the ability to hear. I It will fall off 3 or 4 times in the first 20-30 minutes, but after that it stays well. It does take some time first thing in the morning when I put it on to get a good seal. I can even lean to my left with processor toward the ground and it stays on. Now I can wear it for an 11 hour work day as a Physical Therapist and it never falls off unless I forget and scratch my head and knock it off. It was good but still would fall off with quick movements, however that has continued to get better. After 3 weeks I started trying to wear just with safety hair clip. I wore it from the time I woke up to the time I went to sleep (except for time to let my hair dry after shower). I even got an extra headband which Cochlear delivered in 2 days so I could hand wash one and wear the other.
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Initially it was an huge issue but my AuD told me to wear the headband as much as possible for 3 weeks so my skin flap could flatten. I love that ap.Īs far as processor staying on my head. Now I use the copilot for word practice, especially choosing which word is correct vs two similar words. I am still not 100% and there are sounds and music that still doesn’t sound right (like between radio stations) but I believe it will keep getting better.
You have to put it the hearing rehab work.
I watched YouTube with the captions turned on over and over. I stayed up for hours on that ap and kept getting more and more words that night. I was using an app called Word Hunt as my Cochlear Copilot access wasn’t working yet. 4 days after activation I was able to comprehend my first word. Now I am 12 weeks post-op and about 8 weeks since getting my Kanso2 activated. They were okay, definitely better than nothing but not great. Initially went with CROS hearing aides as CI was not approved by insurance yet because with 100% hearing in other ear, “I wasn’t deaf enough”. I suffered complete sudden single sided hearing loss in my left ear over night 4 years ago this week.
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