Sandy, you read my mind. I feel like the hospital where I had the surgery, must be about the only one in the country that did NOT use the microelectrode system.I agree with you and strongly suspect that is the reason the surgery didn't work. Every med center web site I have located plus what several people who are scheduled for the surgery, everyone of the hospitals use the microelectrodes.
I lost my ride to KU, but found a better deal. I just visted an neurosurgeon at Indiana University medical center and he has done many of the surgeries. I typed out all my questions and the first is does he use the microelectrode. You can guess the answer, yes he does use it.
He personaly called an MDS doctor and they even rearranged the schedule to get me in sooner. My appointment is Dec 17.
The reason for the questions is the neurosurgeon explained it is not easy to determine if the electrodes are really off target. We are talking about a difference of a millimeter, and that isn't much.
The MDS doctor will methodically rule out other possible reasons and than I will get an MRI. Their is some risk having the test, because the implanted hardware is like an electrical circuit. Hopefully, the sugery will follow.
Their is a new DBS forum on the Brain Communities site, but their isn't much activity.
Googy, a DBS foum on this site would be good, but it depends on how many people will suport it and post on it. Their is not much incentive to go there, if the site isn't active and that seems to be a problem with the one I referred to,
Bruce
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