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Severe SI joint pain and pain stimulators
Chronic Pain | Last Active: May 7 11:16am | Replies (61)Comment receiving replies
Thank you for the info. I did meet with a pain doc and she also explained this. Do you have SI joint pain also? I agree 60 percent relief is still pretty good. I would be happy if I got at least half of pain relief. I just read so many people not having relief with the pain stimulator. Can I ask you which stimulator you went with? If I do this I will go with the Medtronic chargeable battery one.
The pain pump looks too big to put in your body. I can’t imagine having that implanted in me.
I’m assuming if you want the permanent one, they take the temporary one out at the same time they put the permanent one in?
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I had the failed surgeries and decided to take the trial for the implant. I got really good results and have had the permanent one for 3 years now. I have never been sorry. I get about a 95 percent relief with it. My Implant is good for ten years, and it's given me a new lease on life. Mine is a Boston scientific also produced by Medtronic. Mine is located in my back right above my hip. Good luck with the trial.
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I had the Medtronics SCS for about three years and then it just sort of stopped woking. I swapped it out for the Nevro which also did nothing. The Nevro rep checked the electrode paddle and said some of the electrodes were burned out. So, I don't know if it's the unit or the electrode that was the problem. To your point regarding the pain pump... yes, it is a bit large, but you get used to it after a while and the body slowly closes tissue around it over time. You definitely want to do a trial with the pain pump. The one I did was just a shot using a catheter that was placed into the space around the spinal cord. The meds are injected and the catheter is removed and a band aid is placed on the site, I had to have two injections, as the first one did not provide any relief. So, no, there is no implanted device for the trial.