I will look into it. Thank you.

Thank you. But it's 1hr. 15 minutes each way for 10 days in North Jersey traffic, not two days. Did the pain pump work for you?

Did you try this?
"Often, people with neuropathy are forced to seek out invasive procedures – surgery, implanted devices (SCS) or resort to the use of powerful narcotics, such as Ketamine, where success has been uneven, but side effects are often debilitating. In 2010, as a pain management provider, I wasn’t comfortable recommending these types of ‘next level’ neuropathic pain treatment for medication-and treatment-resistant patients. I knew there had to be a better option and began looking in Europe for new pain therapies which were drug-free.

Through a contact in Italy, I discovered scrambler therapy, which checked all the boxes—no side effects, painless to undergo, highly effective for neuropathic pain treatment and, most importantly, drug-free.

Our goal was simply to help lessen our local patients’ chronic pain.

But after sharing a few positive scrambler therapy patient outcomes on our website, we quickly began attracting patients from coast-to-coast and around the globe, including Australia, the UK, South Africa and South America for neuropathic pain treatment.

Today, we treat children, adults and seniors battling fibromyalgia, neuropathy after chemotherapy treatment, complex regional pain syndrome and pain that develops after surgery or from diabetes. We have also treated many people who developed chronic nerve pain after a shingles diagnosis (PHN).

How Scrambler Therapy Works

When someone is injured, the brain sets up a process to heal the injury. For example, cells carry away dead tissue or blood flow is increased to the area. Eventually, the brain realizes the injury has healed, and it cuts off the pain message.

For some people, the brain never sends the all-important message, “there’s no more injury here, we’re healed, so you can stop sending that pain signal.”

That’s where the ‘scrambler’ therapy device comes in. Using small electrodes judiciously placed in the region of the injury (but not directly on the pain site), the freestanding technology sends a mild “no pain” message to the brain through the electrodes.

This message overrides the brain’s pain message signal and corrects it, over a series of one treatment daily for an average of 10 days, to a ‘there’s no pain here” message.

In many cases, pain is lessened for the patient as soon as the first scrambler therapy treatment.

Regardless of how long they've had the condition, many patients are completely pain-free at the end of the 10 days of treatment. This is unmatched by any other neuropathic pain treatment.

Calmare Therapy is Safe and Effective

There have been clinical trials performed at several high-profile research facilities here in the United States, including at the Mayo Clinic and at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Positive results have been found with CRPS, Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, low back pain, post-herpetic neuralgia. There have also been many clinical reports of successful treatment of fibromyalgia.

We keep an updated list of these studies on our Clinical Trials web page, so people with specific neuropathic pain conditions can use them as a reference.

When a skilled clinician places the leads in the optimal positions on each trial participant’s body, in accordance with their original injury site, the results are excellent.

For more detailed information, you can watch this very informative hour-long Grand Rounds review (by doctors for doctors) about scrambler therapy, “Calmare Therapy – An Innovative Pain Treatment: What Is It?” presented by the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, a partnership between Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.

The Calmare MC-5A device has been tested in multi-year clinical trials at some of the most prestigious research institutions, including the Massey Cancer Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University, Mayo Clinic and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). In addition, it has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."

Thank you for sharing your experience with the pain pump. I hope the larger dose will give you more pain relief. Please keep us informed. God bless.

Yes, I have a SCS in my back after the trial appeared to work. Regretably,, its not cutting it for me and at times seems to worsen the pain by overstimulating the nerves. the spinal doctor told me that the SCS is for pain only and will not mitigate the neuropathy symptoms (numbness, tingling etc). So, I usually have it turned off.

I had my Nevro implanted in April. Still working with rep to get the best placement. It definitely helps. But so far, not complete coverage of pain. So the rep is combining settings snd I am trying that. I find it best to change to a new setting right at bedtime because new settings always have some pain at first that eventually fades. I sleep well regardless so that gets me through the adjustment phase so that I get a better read on what that setting offers.

I have Nevro spinal implant and it's just not working as good as the trial did. I've had it about a year. I'm giving up. Just don't want to go through surgery to take it out. I pray someone gets relief from theirs. Prayers for all.

You describe my experience perfectly. But I will not give up either. Let’s face it. Its the last best hope. It has definitely helped because I have the energy, ability, and desire to get up and DO! I did not have that anymore before placement. It has at least provided that baseline of relief that allows me to function through the remaining pain.

Have been experiencing ongoing back pain (primary lower back) and mobility issue even though I had Laminectomy and Spinal Fusion surgery 15 months ago. My neurosurgeon who performed the surgery said that nothing looks out of order based upon a recent MRI and CT Scan. I went to get another opinion from a spine specialist who upon having my x-rays said that the surgery did not take. Specifically he said that I have screws that are coming loose in the S-1 / L5 area and also some kind of spacer needs to be replaced at lower end of my spine. Plus there are two screws loose at the T-10 vertebrae.

Originally this specialist told me that one of the options would be an ALIB or something like that where they enter through your navel and do a minimally evasive procedure. But today he said that he thinks that there would be a less than 50% chance that I would have any appreciable change in either my pain and / or mobility condition. He said that the MRI showed that there are no pinched nerve as that may be contributing to my pain.

So, I am now scheduled to see another specialist who would do some kind of spinal stimulator procedure which would be targeted to help relieve my pain. So with the long lead up, has anybody has any experience with this kind of procedure and / or application, good or bad ? The online research said that there have been some good results.

I also am to see a neurologist about my mobility issues. It is like my brain is telling my legs to move but they aren’t getting the message and have extreme difficulty getting around, although I ditched the wheel chair last year and the walker earlier this year and have been on a cane since then but very unstable.

Any thoughts or comments about your personal experience would be appreciated.

Note: I also have peripheral neuropathy that certainly impacts my mobility but was told that in having my Laminectomy and Spinal Fusion surgery it might improve my peripheral neuropathy. It hasn’t.

My husband had a spinal stimulator placed. The company that manufactured it was in contact with weekly. They made 2 adjustments (over internet) and it was great for him.