Like I said previously , I have only had the Abbott SCS for 6 weeks. To tell you the truth I don’t know if it is doing anything for me besides giving me burning in odd places. I have burning on the skin in places like nerve pain . I have mainly just kept the setting low, basically where the rep set them, right at number 12 in the burst setting. The problem is I have so many things going on that I am trying to figure out it is the stimulator or not. I am taking just 150 mg of Pre-gabalin initially for nerve pain but it also ended up helping my restless leg syndrome. I am in the process of of weaning myself off of Clonazapam for restless legs with doctors supervision.There can be some significant side effects getting off this med. So it becomes a guessing game as to the burning on my skin in a very sensitive part.
I have completely turned off the SCS for the time being to see if the pain subsides, then I would have a good idea that the problem is from the SCS. If that would be the case , I won’t hesitate to have it removed and I am sure the pain clinic would try to talk me out of it, but I have news for them and the rep. They pretty much shoved me out of the door with the message, we don’t need to see you but if you have issues or questions just give us a call. That was pretty much it and the rep barely explained anything. I’m just not sure what is causing the burning. If anyone has any information about that, I’d appreciate it.