paula, i don't know how it happened.i had both dbs's put in at the same time - nov 29th 3 yrs ago. i took meds during the period btweenthen and when they turned them on 3 1/2 to 4 weeks later.he turned me on and they adjusted the programs and i didn't need them anymrte.my parameters are set 4.3 which may be a litle high. haveyou gotten one of the thingamajigs that you can check and see if your battteries are getting weak or one has gotten turned off so you can turn it back on yourself? please stay in touch at [log in to unmask] thanks for emailing. jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn