@A MyParkinsonsTeam Member - I just posted a response to you re DBS and mri

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I have had 2 MRIs since DBS. One was of cervical spine, the most recent was to rule out stroke and was of my brain. I had to be cleared by Medtronic, the manufacturer of my device, and by my neurosurgeon. The MRI techs must have had training specific to DBS and a specific MRI machine and magnet was used. I had to turn off my device for the procedure. Mitzi - which ER did Javier go? Who was his neurosurgeon? I receive my care through UCSD. Contact me at (Email address can only be seen by the question and answer creators) - I can give you more details. Marty

Only CAT scans were used, no MRI. Consquently, no real diagnosis of a stroke. Was evident. Has anyone out there been faced with this problem? I’m wondering why this was not discussed with us before under going operation of DBS.