Lyn,  I am so sorry you are feeling this terrible. My heart breaks for you, literally. Having been there I do understand to some extent but not to the...
I must agree with you Jen. I'm sure you remember the huge debate we went through maybe two or three years ago, that was very unpleasant, insulting to...
Carol, I have. The long sound of the drilling when getting a filling makes me soooo dizzy and ringing ears! Rhonda ... From: Carol <spirit0323@...> ...
Hi Jim, Welcome to the group. I have been deaf in my right ear since age 3 due to spinal mentigitis. I started losing hearing in my left ear about 16 years...
Well said, Jen! Rhonda ... From: Jennifer Warsing <warsingj@...> Subject: [copinglist] Food For Thought To: "Yahoo Groups" <copinglist@yahoogroups.com>...
Jim, I am about 20 - 30 minutes from Charlotte Douglas. My husband and I live in Rock Hill. Let me know next time you and your wife come down and maybe we...
Ken, I didn't know you and your wife came down this way. Let me know next time ya'll come down and maybe ya'll can stop in Rock Hill on the way to meet with...
Hi Debbie, Everyone handles their symptoms differently. While one thing may work for someone, it may not work for someone else. You will have to try it all...
Rhonda, I noticed that you had mentioned Valuim and sleeping off the Vertigo. I had to chuckle at myself when you said that because Valium knocks me for a loop...
You are so right, I said to someone this is a wonderful diverse group. And that is what makes it so interesting, and just like with our TV. we are given the...
Hey Rhonda,  We are going to go to Sumter the weekend of the 16th. My wife and her sister planned a "Caaammppp Ooouuuttttt. in her sisters huge back yard...
Hi Ken, My wife is originally from Anderson, SC. She has a friend here in Anchorage who is originally from Greenville, SC so it is a small world. I'm...
Jen, You said that perfectly !!!! I totally agree with you on the subject and I get so much support from this group, there are days when I am having a bad one...
Hi, Jim - Â Maybe you could explain perilymphatic fistulas to the group, as many have never heard of this before. Thanks - Penny - L.A. ... From: jimak38...
Hi Penny, It is good to hear from you. First, let me say that a person's response to a CI is very variable. Some people understand speech very quickly and...
Once again, I must totally agree. Somedays I am overwhelmed by all the mass number of emails that I cannot get to all of them at one time. I was even up...
Hi, Jim - Â Wow, this sounds wonderful! I've been totally deaf on my right ear since I was 4, and have had Meniere's in the "good" ear for 17 years. I miss ...
Hi Rhonda, Thanks for the welcome. You don't have to be totally deaf to become a CI candidate. The criteria for becoming a CI candidate is continually...
Hi Rhonda, We pass through Rockhill on our way to Aiken. We usually stop for a Chick-fil-A in Rockhill as my wife loves them and they don't have any here in...
Hi Penny, I would be glad to. A perilymphatic fistula (PLF) is an abnormal connection between the inner and middle ear. They usually occur in the oval and/or...
Jim (in Alaska) I had to write and tell you that you aren't alone with the PF's. I had one occur when I was five years old, literally overnight. I went to bed,...
Hi Penny, Yes, it is wonderful! The F.D.A. keeps changing the criteria for a CI. Be sure to keep up to date. I kept checking and being told I wasn't a...
WOW! You are so right... As vast as the universe and as large as planet earth with all the millions and billions of people who could have guessed we would...
Hi Jen, Thanks for the kind comments. My PLFs were small and intermittent. They did accelerate my hearing loss, but did not cause a catastrophic hearing loss...
Jim, It's quite interesting for me to "hear" you say..how the CI has helped you and considering you have MM. I have been told by ALL of the ENT's I have seen...
Hi Jen, That is interesting, because I'm a retired physician (Diagnostic Radiologist) and all of the ENT docs I have seen and know say MM patients usually make...
Thanks so much, Jim. This is a clear explanation which we can all understand. It's wonderfulthat you had excellent doctors who knew to look for this. Â I'm...
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