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Has anyone had the Stimwave spine stimulator installed?
Spine Health | Last Active: Jun 11 10:29am | Replies (211)Comment receiving replies
My wife is looking at a SCS.
To make a long story short she has had 6 back surgeries and is fused from sacrum? to T10. She had 3 fusions in 2019/2020.
The last one was a revision and was healing well until she took a fall.
No hardware damage done but it bulged disk at T9-T10 as that is the pivot point.
Facet injection helped for a while. After trip to AZ it went down hill and Radiofrequency ablation trial with no results, Epidural for nerve root was tried with very short relief on 1 side. MRI shows lot of inflammation in joint.
Down to SCS. Been on opioids/medical marijuana for 6-7 years.
I am finding very little research on SCS relief on Thoracic.
The pain clinic that is recommended to do SCS seems to rely on Reps info and seems to give pretty vague info to me.
Would like to know if anyone has done SCS for thoracic pain?
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The best info I can suggest is to get a second or even third opinion before your wife decides to have this surgery. Also make sure they, the doctor not rep, can answer any specific questions you both have. Also ask about adverse effects of the device. I have a stim in my upper thoracic that now needs to be removed. They do seem to work for some people, so again just be sure you trust the doctor and he answers any and all questions.