Do you live in an area where the weather won't cause problems with having the pump refilled every month? Ask what type of medication will be tried and check the side effects. Don't let them use Baclofen. Doctor's want to use this med. It destroys a persons liver. You are started on very low doses of what they feel will work best for you. If you are taking oral pain meds now, be sure they let you keep some until they get your dose in the pump figured out over several months. You are usually allowed to give the pump a specified amount of extra medication hits per 24 hour for break-thru pain. My friend has had one since 2002. She says it saved her life. She was taking more pain meds and Benzo's than she was allowed and still in pain. (She ordered extra meds from out of the country illegally. ) It has successfully controlled her pain with no problems. Her pain is quite different from yours. She has problems in her abdomen from a gang rape when she was 14. She is 65 now. My Pain Management doctor suggested it for me. I have had two Spinal Cord Stimulator's. No more surgeries for me unless it is life or death. I know of only positive outcomes with this. I wish you the best. Please update. I care.