Short version I’m in a position that my ENT wants to put in a cochlear implant in my right ear when they go in to do some other work. I have had no hearing in my right ear in 20 years and have tinnitus in both for the last 25 years. Looking for someone else that has had hearing loss and received the implant. How long have you had it? Is it worth all the hassle and expenses? Does the garbling sounds ever disappear? How comfortable are they? How differently do people look at you for wearing it?
A friend of mine has got one. He was 55 then, and he had normal hearing before until 50 or so. It was a near failure, probably because of his age. It took him huge effort, several years to learn hearing with the implant, because the sound is so different. He is far from satisfied even now.
I have read then that they are much more successful with kids, where the brain adapts so much easier.