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@enmerzergmailcom Thank you! The device is actually placed under your skin just above your hip. That is the controller. The leads are connected to the controller and then they are placed inside the spinal column. The level they are placed at depends on where your pain is. In theory it should be able to affect the pain anywhere below the level where the leads have been placed. It is supposed to block the pain signals before they reach the brain. A lot of people have great success with them, so far I am not one of them!
BTW - I get that same feeling like something is crawling on my legs. Especially at night and in the morning.
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@joelhoward1092 I feel like I’m crazy. I don’t know what’s real and what’s in my head, I mean, what’s in my nervous system firing incorrectly. My left eye is worse than my right, and the whole left side of your body. I can’t stay balanced anymore. It’s also affecting my breathing, bladder… I’ve been checked for transverse, myelitis, and myasthenia gravis. I don’t ever expect anything to show up on test, I just don’t know how to live with it. I burn my hands and cut them frequently because they just flop around. Do you have any of that uncontrollable limbs? I’m sorry to write such a long thing, my neurologist is cutting back, and the pain doctor said there’s nothing else to be done, since I did the low-dose naltrexone. She said I can’t do Ketamine…
I walked out of her office last Wednesday after she said she had nothing else for me! as a clinical psychologist, I tell a patient if I don’t think I can treat them and I refer them appropriately. It’s bizarre that she just said there’s nothing else.