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Yes those magnents are not good at all...guessing if your on or off..i have one of those medtronic devices that turn you on and off and tells you when your battery is below 25 %..It tells you if your on or off and its great! Inurance paid my bilateral dbs also..I guess were lucky to get all that ..those devices are 1,700 if you buy from hospital...donna > > From: Rayilyn Brown <[log in to unmask]> > Date: 2004/05/27 Thu PM 03:41:54 EDT > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Medtronic Announces DBS Seminar Schedule > > I can't go to any seminar but can tell you Medtronic Activa implants really > stop tremor. One of my implants got accidently turned off and I was ready to > check out for good. My part-time CG got me turned back on after 2 tries. I > had tried 3 times with no luck. It reminded me what a miracle this is. Bad > tremors stopped immediately and my voice instantly got worse, and I can barely > walk or write, have double vision, but those tremors really drove me nuts. I > have been emailed and heard from people who gotten their lives back after > bilateral DBS. I'm just grateful not to be shaking so bad, my programmer is > ordering me a machine that tells you if you are on or off or if battery is just > run down.Ray > > PS - I understand they now have just one chest implant for both sides of > brain instead of two. also Medicare and my secondary insurance pay all > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn