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Originally Posted by pooh_ac
As some you have figured out from talking with others if/when you loose weight battery placment may need to be changed. My unit is in my abdomen and that is where my doc USED to place all of the units. But due to increased risk of infection due to need to be turned during surgery and maintaining sterile field during that progress, he no longer places them in the abdomen. He has left mine in the abdomen with all of my upgrades and changes he has reluctantly left it there. (I can also be a pain in the rump patient as a nurse  ). I have told him and noted my placement changes up and down as I gain or loose weight also. It tends to slide further "south" with weight loss and "north" with weight gain. I have a feeling that with my next revision he may "insist" on giving me a "bionic butt", however I will do my best to keep it where it is.
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Hi Pooh- and thank you for starting this thread! As one who waits in preparation for permanent implant, you have spurred me on to the notion surgical preparedness includes appropriate attempts to strengthen and tone the target body [mine in this case] for the upcoming implant. Exercise will most assuredly bring me to better body strength so as to be as ready as possible for the post surgical recuperation, while exercise along with diet may aid assuring optimal battery placement; that is, if I can return to near my best body weight.
If you join the ranks of the bionic behind, do remember in the Borg Collective resistance is futile.
Here's hoping you are able to keep your battery placement in what you believe to be your most appropriate location. After all, you are the one who must live with it.
Hugs
and
Mark56