I truly believe you are right. I have had 10 different procedures done to my back and none of them gave me relief, including the spinal stimulator. I have had a fusion on L5-S1 ten years ago and it made me worse gradually. I go to a pain specialist at Rush Hospital in Chicago. He keeps me on Norco to take the pain away and lets me do the normal things in life. I live alone and without help in a big house. My kids want me to downsize which I am planning to do in the near future. My pain specialist sent me to a neurosurgeon and he's wondering why the pain specialist had not done a pain pump. I soon found out that he doesn't like to use that method of relief. He's the only pain doctor in that hospital that doesn't do them. I went to my psychiatrist to get my 3 month prescription of antidepressants because I have become depressed with this whole situation. He doesn't understand why the pain doctor won't do the pain pump. He said he has had patients in wheel chairs walk into his office free of using any help to get them around in life and are walking just fine after getting the pain pump. He wants me to reconsider the pain doctor's decision and get a second opinion on having a pump put in. I was wondering if there is anyone who has had success with the pain pump. Please give me an opinion.

Thank you so much for your reply! No one understands unless they experience what all of us in daily constant pain have to deal with! God bless us all! ….amd sending warm hugs & prayers. 💕🙏