My surgeon has spoken to me of the effect continuing beyond power down and has urged me to shut mine off completely because he says patients of his report it still has effect for a time once powered down.

I have not been courageous enough to power it off for fear it might not "want" to power up later. I have been experimenting with very low freq usage for many weeks now, realizing I have been doing OK and have not had more than the one spike. But power down? Nah. Not me. Not now.

Yup,