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Anyone here dealing with peripheral neuropathy?
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@cwallen9
In response to your question regarding having tried neurostimulation, I read on the Mayo website how one of its employees had tried the Calmare Treatment Therapy (aka Scrambler Therapy) with great success for CIPN... so I gave it a try. I personally found it to be physically overwhelming and gave up after two treatments. I think it must depend a lot on who is doing the procedure -- how well-trained the person is with the equipment. It is not covered by Medicare, by the way, so treatments are out-of-pocket. (I couldn't get out of there soon enough....)
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Your procedure sounds like periodic treatments. In this procedure, they implant a wire along your spine that constantly stimulates the spinal chord to mask the pain signals. There is a controller that they implant in you that you can control the intensity via a smart phone. They try it for four days with the controller outside your body to see if it works before they implant it. A Johns Hopkins paper gave it good reviews. I am not sure of the risks when they put the wire near your spine.