Yesterday was a "bad hearing day". Michelle did explain to me that during my next several months of healing and adjusting to my implant that I would have some rough days. I was excited to have gone up to A 5 on Sunday night but when Monday morning rolled around, everytime I opened my mouth to speak my ear sounded like a blown speaker. I could hear others fine, it was just when I spoke. It was so distorted and loud sounding that I couldn't tell if I was even speaking correctly! I even had to plug my ear with my finger just to stand talking. So I went back down to A 4 and it became more tolerable. I got in touch with Michelle about suggestions and now I'm on a course of antihistamine/decongestant pills and Afrin nasal spray. I'm dealing with fluid in both ears and hopefully these meds will help to decrease the fluids. Today, I was able to put my implant back up to A 5 and did well with it. So I'm hopeful the meds are going to help.
I got quite a few looks from my patients as I admitted them for surgery and stuck my finger in my ear just so I could communicate with them! Once I explained why they were quite sympathetic, one even commented, "Remember the symptoms so you can get out of doing something you don't want to do...you know, just say 'I can't hear you, sorry!'" Lol, right on! Just refer to my "You know you're hard of hearing when..." post:)
Vacuumed for the first time since activated and I actually can tolerate the noise! I thought it was going be as bad as the hair dryer. So far nothing tops it. Speaking of the hair dryer, I turned my implant off this morning while I dried my hair and then when I was done I went to turn it back on. My worst fear happened when I put the remote to my implant and nothing happened!! I probably fiddled around with the remote a good ten minutes with no luck. I didn't want to go to work with just one ear again! I was just about to change the batteries in the remote even though the low battery indicator wasn't on when I noticed I'd been pushing the question mark button instead of the button with the picture of a head on it to command the implant! Guess I can't multitask in the morning, lol!
A little concerned though that the tinnitus in my right ear isn't getting better. It is a bit distracting at times, but I'll try to hang in there just a bit longer before I make mention of it to my doctor again.
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