Hi Marilyn, I hope that you have talked with your tech about this as it may be just an adjustment problem that can be corrected. My wife had DBS in several months ago. She has a problem speaking when her right stimulator is on, so we leave it off for weeks at a time and only turn it on for an hour when she feels the need. We hope that this can be made better by adjusting that stimulator. We will attempt this soon as we are waiting for her body to fully adjust to the stimulators and don't want to rush things too fast Hope this helps, Ron. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn