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My Hearing Loss Story

My experience of sudden sensorineural hearing loss and how it affects my life.

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Category: Single-Sided Deafness

Profile of Carly, wearing her ebony Rondo 3 processor and white jumper.
December 23, 2024 Cochlear Implant / hearing loss / Single-Sided Deafness

My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 9 – Activation Day

Shakin’ Stevens’ “Merry Christmas Everyone” played on the car stereo as we made the familiar journey to Valencia. The motorway

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2 x the same photo of Carly, sided by side. On the left, she has a white behind-the-ear style audio processor drawn on top of the image around her ear. On the right photo, she has a circular rondo-style audio processor drawn on top of the image.
December 10, 2024 Cochlear Implant / hearing loss / Single-Sided Deafness

My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 8 – Choosing an Audio Processor

Deciding which audio processor to choose has been a tricky part of my cochlear implant journey. In a nutshell, a

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Photo of carly wearing a pink headband and a blue and white stripy top
November 28, 2024 Cochlear Implant / hearing loss / Single-Sided Deafness

My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 7 – Surgery Recovery

I had prepared for the worst regarding my cochlear implant surgery recovery. I am the kind of person who seems

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November 27, 2024 Cochlear Implant / hearing loss / Single-Sided Deafness

My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 6 – Surgery Day!

12th November, 2024  I woke up from my cochlear implant surgery to the familiar sight of the anaesthetist, his wild

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Headshot of Carly - woman in her early 40s with brown hair in a bob style, wearing a yellow top. Over the photo is a drawn-on white cochlear implant over her left ear.
October 25, 2024 Cochlear Implant / Single-Sided Deafness

My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 5 – It’s a Date!

It’s finally happening! I have a date for my cochlear implant (CI) surgery. After 8 years and 2 months since

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Illustration of two arrow signs, one on top of the other, pointing opposite ways. The top sign is pink and says "One way." The bottom sign is green and reads "Another way." Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
December 1, 2023 Cochlear Implant / Single-Sided Deafness

My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 4 – Why I’m Getting a Cochlear Implant for Single-Sided Deafness

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay As I write this blog, it is November 30th, 2023, and I have been living with single-sided

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Two people walking together. Visible are their legs and shadows.
May 2, 2022 hearing loss / Single-Sided Deafness / sudden sensorineural hearing loss

Take a Walk With Me for Deaf Awareness Week

If you’d asked me before I became deaf in one ear, what I imagined it would be like to live

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January 18, 2021 Single-Sided Deafness / sudden sensorineural hearing loss

Please Help People With Sudden Hearing Loss!

Hi, I’m Carly. Four years ago when I was 34, I lost the hearing in my left ear. I wasn’t

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November 16, 2020 Published Articles / Single-Sided Deafness

How to Enjoy the Festive Period with Hearing Loss

Image by vivienviv0 from Pixabay  ‘First posted on Inclusive Communication Services and reposted here with permission.’ The holiday season is a time to

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August 27, 2020 hearing loss / Single-Sided Deafness

When the Doctor Calls

Photo by Gustavo Fring from Pexels My heart was pounding, my stomach was churning. I was glancing at my phone

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I’m Carly Sygrove, and this is the story of my experience of sudden sensorineural hearing loss and how it has affected my life.

Top Posts & Pages

  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 9 – Activation Day
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 8 – Choosing an Audio Processor
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 3 - Reasons Not to Get a Cochlear Implant
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 18 – One Year Post-Implantation
  • Living with Single-Sided Deafness
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 7 – Surgery Recovery
  • One Year On... My Thoughts on My Sudden Hearing Loss
  • Could Botox Help My Vestibular Migraines?—Part 3: The Verdict
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 17 – The Day I Met Another Rondo
  • A Note on Diuretics (and more medical terminology)

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  • dizziness (1)
  • Fundraising (5)
  • Hearing Link (5)
  • hearing loss (46)
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  • Menieres disease (14)
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  • septoplasty (4)
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  • The Limping Chicken (7)
  • tinnitus (9)
  • vertigo (1)
  • vestibular disorder (15)
  • Vestibular Function Tests (2)
  • vestibular migraine (10)
  • vestibular rehabilitation (3)
  • wellbeing (2)

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