Sounding Board / live well with hearing loss (4)

by Amy Pajula, on February 26, 2019

I had already been struggling with my hearing loss for years when I became a first year college student. Now, however, I was away from home and in danger of …

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by Ashley Derrington, on February 7, 2019

Getting the Esteem® is not an easy decision, and it’s not one to take likely, but if an audiologist says, “well, you could do just as well with hearing aid,” …

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by Amy Pajula, on January 8, 2019

As a bilateral Esteem® patient, I have experienced hassle-free hearing for almost 9 years. It has been an amazing journey and one that I would never change. Not for anything …

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by Amy Pajula, on December 12, 2018

As a proud member of the hearing loss community, a hearing aid user for nearly three decades, and a happy bilateral Esteem® recipient, I am intimately familiar with the journey …

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by Ashley Derrington, on December 4, 2018

You may not know they exist or what they are, but active middle ear implants – or AMEIs as they are sometimes referred to – have created new treatment options …

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by Envoy Medical Staff Member, on November 27, 2018

Before Jill McAlister and Marcie Pratt went skydiving together, they had never met. But, the two shared more in common than they would have believed. They both have congenital hearing …

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by Envoy Medical Staff Member, on November 23, 2018

Can you imagine having your cake and eating it too? That might be what you can expect with the Esteem® hearing implant. The Esteem® is a hearing solution that alleviates …

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by Envoy Medical Staff Member, on November 20, 2018

Hearing loss often creeps up on us slowly over time. We start by turning the volume up on the TV, the phone and the radio. Over time it can progress …

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by Ashley Derrington, on November 16, 2018

When people find out I have the Esteem, their reaction is usually one of two things: amazement and a desire to learn more or skepticism and no aspiration to understand …

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by Envoy Medical Staff Member, on August 17, 2018

Article written by an actual Esteem patient. He chooses to remain anonymous, but wanted people to understand how Esteem helped changed his life. (And with Esteem, no one needs to …

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