Don’t please don’t be offended. I am so happy the stimulator is working for you and I don’t want you to worry about what will be. You asked “ why the stimulator doesn’t work for them?” I can give you one reason from a friend’s personal experience because they need surgery. Some of us have degenerative disc disease and other accompanying degeneration. The stimulator does not stop ongoing degeneration so if one’s pain is masked or interrupted, that is coinciding with continued lumbar deterioration And some people. That’s why it might work in the beginning and not work later. It is the same with exercising exercising can postpone and prevent a few surgeries, but eventually, gravity and weight are going to win out when the lumbar discs are pushed out of the places where they need to cushion. I see a lot of top-notch doctors and they try to limit invasive surgeries.. And the stimulator implant may be good for a particular type of lumbar condition. When my pain actually stopped because my disc fell out entirely and my vertebrae’s did their own self surgery and grafted together it meant that my nerves were being crushed to nonexistence. That was not a good thing. My surgeon wanted to do surgery right away. It has been seven years six years and my nerves are probably permanently damaged from having been crushed for so long. There is some kind of pains which signal the need for attention. And there’s some kind of pains which just need to be alleviated. In today’s day and age, we also have to be careful that patients get sufficient attention, such that the doctor can actually isolate the pain diagnostically so they know the reasons for why it exists and then they can offer the best treatment. I’m so glad it’s working for you and I hope it will always work for you.
Also, I have a tens unit and the electrical stimulation of the tens unit also works on the same principle and it can stimulate muscle growth so that was why I asked the question about the implant stimulator.