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Spinal Cord Stimulator Removal
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Aug 18 10:10am | Replies (85)Comment receiving replies
I wish I never listened to my Dr and the Abbott rep. Getting the DRG stimulator was the worst thing!! I did get mild relief in my foot (original start of my CRPS) but it caused so much pain and discomfort in my spine and battery incision site, that it caused CRPS to spread. I begged and begged for them to remove. They kept saying give it more time. After 8 months, CRPS spreading like wildfire, they finally removed it.
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I LUCKED OUT.
Sound terrible but two women I know were talked into the simulator and both had it removed. CRPS ( I developed it in 1999) has made us hypersensitive to everything. I really want you to look back at your life since developing CRPS. You'll find its true. All doctors look at is the pain. Pain is an 1/8 of it. Our senses are overloaded, inflammation everywhere, What we eat and drink is a HUGE contributor to all the inflammation. I found Dr. Robert Getson on U Tube , RSDSA sight. He lectures are old but he literally is my HERO. I watched everyone of them and did what he said. I found functional medicine, eat as organic as I can, take Tumerac every day, unstressed my life. I'm 62 , a nurse, and work full time at a very relaxed home care. Cook from scratch, moved out of my ex husbands house(long over do) have my own apartment. But reality is that I might be able to support myself but on my days off I'm pretty much on the couch and not doing much. But considering what I was like before this is night and day. I'm still on Vicodin everyday. Good Luck
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I, too, wish I had never had the ABBOTT device implanted. It has never worked, and I have concerns about what negative effects might occur due to having this device implanted in my body for life.