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Has anyone tried the HF10 Spinal Cord Stimulation Device?
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Aug 12 2:56pm | Replies (375)Comment receiving replies
I have a Medtronics Stilumator and find it difficult in getting the adjustment right; did you work with the tech allot after the surgery? How to find away to understand how you can do the setting at home; other than up or down and right before bed when you get up and after a good exercise? My battery needs charging every day and a few times twice a day. I am hoping I can get this thing worked out. Oh the VA is now not covering the surgery so I now have the implant and will need to pay out of pocket for everything or drive 3 hours a ferry ride to get help!
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We are still working with the Nevro people. It was slow going at first. We did not really make a lot of progress until I got some understanding of how the adjustments work. I do not know about Medtronics.
The Nevro the program numbers are the adjustment for the vertebrae level, Then there is an adjustment up and down for the amplitude which is the power level like a stereo volume, then the 3rd adjustment is the pulse rate. On ours it is on 14%, 25% or 100% of the time.
I then made a spreadsheet containing all the adjustments made and the correlating pain levels and such to be able to see what worked the best.
We can call or email our tech anytime to get help. As far as changing level daily my understanding is that it takes 24-36 hours to wash the old settings out and the same for the new settings to take effect. So changing often probably doesn't do much. We tried each new setting for 3-4 days to test it.
I don't know about battery life. My wife is on 100% pulse and is charging every other day.
Doesn’t really work! Been in twice for adjustment! About to give up!
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Contact the tech about battery life if you haven't done so yet, some releases of the device have had issues. One of my friends was given a second battery so he could always have one on the charger, until they could find a resolution.
Sue