Sorry Ray, Got carried away! No need to turn neurostimulators off for a mammogram.
Yes ARC needs a battery, get someone to do it for you.
                                                                                Cheers, Lee


rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
LEE DO NEUROSTIMULATORS HAVE TO BE TURNED OFF FOR MAMMOGRAM?

DOES ARC HAVE TO HAVE BATTERY? I CAN'T GET MINE OPEN AS MY HANDS ARE LIKE
PAWS.

THANKS, RAY
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Wu"
To:

Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 2:53 AM
Subject: Re: DBS/Are you turned off for MRI


> Hi Ray,
> Mammograms are not the most comfortable of procedures. I had my doubts
> about the need last yr with my neurostimulators insitu in the
> subclavicular area. My sister was diagnosed with breast cancer picked up
> on a mammogram around the same time I (a little reluctantly) had mine so
> for me it's something I no longer resent when I think of her.
> Winnie regarding your access review controller... I'm with you regarding
> the panic but I was told to get a new nine volt battery every 3 months for
> it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lee
>
> rayilynlee wrote:
> Just read one of Diane's posts which claimed in about ten years DBS as
> done
> now would be replaced by nanotechnology which would get hairlike
> electrodes
> to your brain without drilling holes in your skull and putting the leads
> under your scalp.
>
> I stopped having mammograms due to implants and had decided never to have
> another MRI, but guess I could survive being turned off again, I had to be
> when I had redo of left brain. The whole bed shoke in surgery. My problem
> is in explaining my condition to medical personnel who are not up to speed
> since I can barely speak. AAAAARRRGGGG!!!
> Ray ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Winnie Carolgray"
> To:
>
> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 2:28 AM
> Subject: Re: DBS/Are you turned off?
>
>
>>I know in the hospital they insisted that they knew just how to do an
>>ekg.
>> They
>> sent for the night nurse and the thing that she did (turned them off with
>> my
>> magnet and did the ekg then turned then back on. I was having debridement
>> of
>> my stimulators (3rd surgery) and wanted to leave them on as long as
>> possible.
>> but two weeks after they had to remove my stimulators and I had to have
>> them xeroed out the time beore I had them removed. (I had both sides
>> done.)
>>
>> chow
>> carol gray in houston
>>
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