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Spinal cord stimulator support
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Oct 16 1:00pm | Replies (130)Comment receiving replies
My story is too lengthy and its already been told, but I am a SCS nightmare story.
I personally would never, ever recommend this device.
My friend is a Nurse and refused one, her nephew is a Dr and also told her he woukd never advise one. If you are lucky they help. I had bleds in the spinal canal, a lot of scarring , severe pain at site of battery and my body rejected the hardware. I also have nerve damage to right leg. Drs
minimize the side effects, they can be profound and very serious. Pls research thoroughly. Mine is out.
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I am so sorry it didn’t help you and seemed to make things worse. Obviously not the outcome one wants but no outcome is usually ever, IF ever, guaranteed in medicine. We are all so individual that one size cannot work for all. 😢
I was a RN who developed back pain and neck pain. I have had 2 back surgeries including spinal fusion and 1 neck surgery, also fusion.
My first back surgery was in 2011. It was good until about 6 years ago when I did something really dumb with my back (don’t ask). I got the Medtronics SC stimulator implanted in January of whatever year Covid made its appearance. I did have to get it adjusted as to where I needed the most sensations which is not done surgically - I met the rep in office and that really helped. I was great until about 2022 when I started getting severe sciatica pain down one leg. I would walk about a mile but then limp home. I finally agreed to surgery (put it off for a year) and had more decompression and fusion done in 3/24. I used the stimulator for post op pain relief for about 10 weeks (plus meds). I haven’t needed to use it since 🤞
I’m 75 so I’m not holding my breath I won’t have back pain again but so far so good.
The neck, argh. I refuse to have another surgery because it would be far more complicated than my first plus other factors that I just didn’t like hearing about re possible complications. It hurts. Bah. 😢
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