Re: Baclofen pump #3
AZMAINIAC (AZMAINIAC(AT)prodigy.net)
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 13:36:00 -0800
Alton wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Do you have to worry about unfriendly radio
> energy? i.e., Does the radio receiver in the
> pump ever respond to, or get zapped by, a
> nearby transmitter other than the intentional
> transmitter used to change the settings?
>
> I read that you should not pass through an
> airport metal detector, but with my artificial
> hip, I couldn't anyway.
>
> I also read that you can never have another
> MRI. Does that bother you?
>
> Any other restrictions? Does it ever bother
> you? Any down-sides, given that you have no
> infections associated with it?
>
> >From now on, John, I'll think of the pink
> Eveready bunny when I see your notes. You
> keep going and going and going and going for
> five years without a battery change.
>
> Alton, with night-time leg trashing and
> day-time toe knotting and RLS
Alton,
If I remember, I walked through a metal dectector at an airport years
ago. Of course, they have probably increased the sensitivity. Also, I
walked through a metal detector at a court building about a year ago.
As for an MRI, I know of a person who had one done with a pump.They
completly shut the pump down.The casing is made of titanium and I am not
sure what type of metal the rotor is made of. One only has to be
concerned of ferromagnetic material(I remembered somethinng I learned in
school!AMAZING!)or anything that contains iron.
John
P.S.I couldn't be a bunny. I would go bankrupt from purchasing Viagra!