Yesterday, February 11 2026, I went for my first post-turn on reprogramming and checkup with how things are going.
I will likely expand this a little later but I want to get my initial reaction down while the memory is till fresh.
I can’t say enough about how friendly, and professional at the same time, everyone is. From Dr Sammy, Dr. Kara of MUSC and Ben from Envoy Medical. Even the intern who is just finishing her post-graduate, everyone is friendly, courteous and helpful.
We had a few technical problems with the device and getting it connected to the laptops for re-calibration and re-programming. That probably took the greatest amount of time after the in-booth tests. I’ll explain some of my results a bit later.
I reported what I found with the battery charger device and apparently they have had other people saying that if the coils move off the implanted battery and they battery charger sends the 3 alerts and switches off, it will not switch on again unless you first plug the implant charger into the wall to be charged.
The other issue I had, and apparently this is fairly common in this initial device, is that the cable coming out of the implant charger and programmer “frays”. It looks more like a split to me, nevertheless, Ben from Envoy replaced the whole device. It had been working just fine but I guess better to be safe than sorry.
More to come…sorry about the brevity but I have a really busy day pruning and otherwise farming…