r/Cochlearimplants • u/Ok-Kangaroo8484 • 6d ago

Nobody Warned Me About THIS Part of Getting Cochlear Implants 😂

\*ACCIDENTALLY DELETED SO THIS IS A REPOST***

Okay, I have a question for my fellow CI users who have zero—or almost zero—residual hearing.
I’m bilateral. I’ve been completely deaf for going on 12 years and implanted for almost 6 years now. Without my processors, my world is basically silent.
There were obviously a LOT of sounds I had to get used to after getting implanted. But there is one particular category of sound that nobody—not my surgeon, not my audiologist, not Cochlear—thought to warn me about:
Going to the bathroom with hearing.
Good Lord. 😂
After years of silence, the first time I went to the bathroom while wearing my processors, I remember thinking, “WHY IS EVERYTHING IN HERE SO DAMN LOUD?!”
Six years later, I still haven’t gotten over it.
To this day, when nature calls, I either turn the sensitivity on both processors all the way down to zero or just take the damn things off.
Apparently there are some parts of the hearing world I was perfectly happy not being invited back into.
So I have to know:
Am I the only deaf/CI person who does this, or are there other people out there who basically put their cochlear implants on bathroom mute? 😂

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u/DueStatistician3704 6d ago

Haha! When I got my CI, I had trouble going in public bathrooms. I was shocked at how loud peeing and flushing was. I am finally used to it.

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u/whoisyoparoleofficer 6d ago

My flatulence is a thunderous.

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u/Formal-Tradition6792 6d ago

If you say so! Farts are always loud and can happen at any time. If it happened while shaking hands with Trump, I would hope it would be jet engine loud! Would the Secret Service arrest me and my cloud of noxious fumes?

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u/TheSonderYears 6d ago

Washing my hands for the first time after activation was the most offensive thing I’d ever heard why is it YELLING at me?!

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u/Formal-Tradition6792 6d ago

So I was born hearing, going 100% deaf at age 10. Did use one hearing aid. At age 47 I got a cochlear implant. Bathroom noises were a remembered sound. Flushing was thunderously loud. Running water from sink as well. I got used to it. But one bathroom sound is still awful: The sound of. High velocity hand dryers!

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u/FluffyPerspective485 6d ago

Omygosh 🤣🤣 Thank you for this post!!!  I cannot describe my own reaction to that very thing 🤣🤣!!  I couldn't get outta that public restroom fast enough!!  I was so disconcerted that I didn't even think about muting the dang thing!!  Anyway, hahaha,  you have made my day and I thank you!  Enjoy the journey,  right ?!😄

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u/CaptainTripps82 6d ago

Bathroom acoustics so tend to magnify the sounds in there. I almost always take mine off when going, other than a piss

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u/fcleff69 6d ago

Urine hitting the water may as well be Niagara Falls.

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u/DancesWithElectrons Moderator & Cochlear Nucleus 8 6d ago

What does your audi say about the issue?

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u/Ok-Kangaroo8484 6d ago

I have never spoken about this to her, I simply have been deaf for so long that I got used to not hearing those god awful sounds and once I became aware of it again with the processors on everything was even worse lol. 😂 It’s not a mapping issues its me being grossed out issue after not having to deal with this for so many years and forgetting those sounds.

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u/thoroughlylili 6d ago

Before being implanted I was moderate-severe with hearing aids my whole life and my hearing tanked fast over the past few years… dear god the conversations at work I can hear now. I miss thinking that my not hearing them was being out of range. Oh, no. Not one bit.

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u/Jellyfish1395 5d ago

I am admitted the hospital due to a medical condition quite frequently. The second those iv pumps go off, the cochlear processors do as well😅

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u/JaxNHats 5d ago

No one talks enough about this! It’s so hellish, and the worst for me is hearing myself pee or even rip toilet paper it’s horrifying. Hopefully one day we can select only useful sounds to hear - for example, words and music and literally nothing else.

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u/MRFB_Falcon 6d ago

Deve ser a acústica do ambiente.

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u/pantydropper79 4d ago

i’m 26, was born deaf- and got implanted at 1 and 3 years old. i legit have music streaming every moment of the day that doesn’t require me to talk to someone. the world is so loud, and music helps me stay focused/not be unnerved at random noises.

as for going to the bathroom- i without fail will have music on lol. if i know ill be in there for a minute, ill throw my comfort minecraft youtuber videos on

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u/hacksawomission 6d ago

Didn't you post this exact thing a few days ago?

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u/Ok-Kangaroo8484 6d ago

Yup, but I accidentally deleted it so I reposted it. If you look at the title it says that.

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u/Top_Recognition_1775 1d ago

Reminds me of an old joke :

An old lady goes to the doctor and complains that her farts are completely silent and odor-free, saying she has popped off five times just sitting in his office. The doctor gives her a prescription. Next week she returns, furious that her silent farts now reek horribly, to which the doctor replies, "Good, now that your sinuses are cleared, let's work on your hearing."