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Has anyone had the Stimwave spine stimulator installed?

Posted by WS4K @ws4k, Dec 12, 2018

Hello to ALL! I have a severe back injury and even after three surgeries and several fusions, I am still experiencing severe and chronic pain. My pain management specialist is talking about a spine stimulator. After some research I located the Stim Wave. With this unit, only the leads are implanted. No wires come through. The antenna is worn like a pager on your belt.

Has anyone tried one of the Stim Wave stimulators yet? Any feed back on them?

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marychapman | @marychapman | Feb 21, 2021

I immediately asked him for some degree of relief but he told me that I need to be awake and aware so that I could talk to him and answer questions as the procedure went along. Apparently he can place the leads by asking me different questions so that he would be placing them exactly where they would give me the most relief. Because my legs spasm so much I couldn’t even have the testing done to see if I would get more relief from the Stimwave. It was all very frustrating for me

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jerryaloha | @jerryaloha | Feb 23, 2021

had stimwave trial last month went very well ,getting perment implant this thursday (feb 25 2021) have to wait ten days for healing before hook up .will keep every one posted after

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martyk | @martyk | Feb 23, 2021

Jerry, could you share with us where you pain was located and what percentage of relief to you get with the trial? Thanks

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wisco50 | @wisco50 | Feb 23, 2021
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@martyk

I spoke with an RN on Friday. She said she had the Abbott DRG implanted about year and a half ago by a Dr.Pavli Damian in New Jersey. She is very happy with the result. She highly recommends it. She said there is very little parathesia, She has another SCS implanted on the other side. So, she has two of them from different companies. She had 2 foot surgeries and an auto accident before the implants. She claims she doesn't notice the implants and she has at least 90%or more of pain reduction. However, she can't even be around the MRI machine at the hospital where she works Fearing it would turn off or interfere with the DRG implant. She said a CT scan would suffice and should be used instead of an MRI if you need one

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Some of the newer? SCS systems are MRI compatible under specific circumstances. I have a Medtronics one - if I need an MRI, I have settings I need to change on it (that I can change myself) and then it will be safe.

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martyk | @martyk | Feb 23, 2021

Interesting. Do you currently have a Medtronic implant?

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jerryaloha | @jerryaloha | Feb 24, 2021

no i have stim wave installed 2/25/2021 ,will let every one knows how it goes. location left lower back and hip area, had vertiflex done 5/2021 for spinal stnosses on rt side

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jerryaloha | @jerryaloha | Feb 24, 2021
In reply to @wisco50 "Some of the newer? SCS systems are MRI compatible under specific circumstances. I have a Medtronics..." + (show)
@wisco50

Some of the newer? SCS systems are MRI compatible under specific circumstances. I have a Medtronics one - if I need an MRI, I have settings I need to change on it (that I can change myself) and then it will be safe.

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stimwave is compataful for some mri

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jerryaloha | @jerryaloha | Feb 24, 2021
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@martyk

Jerry, could you share with us where you pain was located and what percentage of relief to you get with the trial? Thanks

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sorry , left lower back and hip area, trial percentage about 90 to 95%.

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starfirey2k | @starfirey2k | Feb 24, 2021
In reply to @jerryaloha "no i have stim wave installed 2/25/2021 ,will let every one knows how it goes. location..." + (show)
@jerryaloha

no i have stim wave installed 2/25/2021 ,will let every one knows how it goes. location left lower back and hip area, had vertiflex done 5/2021 for spinal stnosses on rt side

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Good luck, hope all works out for you and get some relief!! may the force be with you!!

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