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Anyone tried Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain?

Neuropathy | Last Active: Mar 17 12:45pm | Replies (430)

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@lorry

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.

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I am in perfect health except for severe back pain and now neuropathy. I am a young 72 and live alone. There's a new pain medication out called Journavx. It's non opioid and I'm going to ask my pain doctor about it Wednesday. Walgreens has it. Maybe there's hope for me yet.!