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Anyone tried Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain?
Neuropathy | Last Active: Mar 17 12:45pm | Replies (430)Comment receiving replies
Good for you. It didn't work for my back pain, but my neurosurgeon said to get for my new neuropathy that I just developed after a minimally evasive surgery that I'm sorry I had. I always had back pain and this surgeon said he thought he could help me. Sorry that I had it done. My pain specialist warned me. Saw the surgeon today and said to walk and exercise for the neuropathy and could not explain why his surgery didn't help me. I may try the stimulator again. I hate the neuropathy.
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Surgery is good for surgeons, not necessarily for patients.
Personal experiences and my general practitioner concur that everyone who has had back surgery regrets it.
Pain can make you feel desperate and depressed.
Implants and surgery are invasive and fraught with multiple points of irreversible failure. IMO.
If you have already tried everything else and you are in the regular care of a doctor and a specialist and they both concur that this is the only option left for you, that would be the scenario where it might be worth trying. Sorry you are in this situation.
Thank you for caring. I'm a young 72 year old that lives alone. I have no underlying conditions except bad back pain from generative disc disease and spinal stenosis.
This all started 10 years ago with my first back surgery, a fusion. Got worse ever since. Only Norco helps now.
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I had Boston Scientific and could look up the other one; but, neither helped with the pain at all!! You may be a lucky one-I think we have to try everything possible!!