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Chronic Pain | Last Active: Jul 14 6:59am | Replies (48)

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A neurosurgeon, who I am seeing, states that ones age affects the effacy of a pain pump. He does not recommend it for older people.

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Does your neurosurgeon offer his/her reasoning behind the blanket statement that the older one gets the less efficacious a pain pump is?
Seems like a gigantic broad brush . It may or may not be true but I would need a much more specific response before I accepted that correlation.
Bob