@wilcy @jimhd The reason the insurance companies make you see a psychiatrist before any kind of stimulator trial is that research shows that people who have clinical depression tend not to report positive effects using them. So if evaluated by the psychiatrist to have clinical depression, a person then would not be a candidate for a stimulator trial. That is what my pain specialist told me, as I may be doing a trial for the Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator. Lori Renee