Screw that stimulator. Get yourself an implanted pain pump. I have one and I love it. The pump drips about 3mg. of narcotics into your spine every 24 hours. You have a remote that can give you another 1mg. over ten does in 24 hours. That's a total of 4mg. of dilaudid per day. That's nothing but it is 300 times more effective than drugs that you eat. I used to eat 252 mg. of drugs everyday and got no good relief, I still wanted to die, I had no life. No more unpleasant side affects, your not taking enough to have side affects. See Dr. Park at MHealth

If your pain is in your back for getting the wires and the stimulators. Get yourself a pain pump installed in your belly with a catheter going up your spine. Less than 4 mg per day of Dilaudid will give you all the relief you're ever going to need. Yes the pump has to be replaced every five years which means another surgery and yes the pump has to be refilled with Dilaudid or any other narcotic your doctor chooses to use every 3 to 4 months which takes about 5 minutes once you're in the doctor's chair. You don't have to go in the hospital you don't have to stay overnight you don't have to be anesthetized.
You just get a needle. They pump out the old dope and they put in fresh dope. Yes I still have pain and yes my pain is manageable. It's so much better than it was before the pain pump. I traded 252 mg a day of Oxycontin Dilaudid and Valium for less than 4 mg a day of Dilaudid. The man to see is Dr Park, Michael Chank Won Park at M Health in Minneapolis Minnesota. Tell him t
Stephen, the poster boy for the pain pump sent you. He'll fix you up real good.

So happy the pain pump works for you without the side affects. I was hoping you could answer a couple of questions for me:
1. When I take oral pain meds I feel loopy and I don't feel safe driving or "walking" around without someone with me. Did you feel that way with oral meds, too? If so, do you feel that way now?
2. Do the meds still have an addictive side affect like the oral ones do? I know many people do not care as long as they have relief, but I would still like to know.
Thanks for sharing!
ronnie

wsh66: Is it Mayo health for MHealth( I will try to contact That Dr.Park, from India? Nice pain relief ,safe is welcome.

Mhealth is part of the U of MN.I'll try to post hid phone number in Minnesota.

Dr. Michael Park 612-624-6666. Tell him that Stephen Hodder sent you.

Here's the website:

M Health - University of Minnesota
-- https://www.mhealth.org/

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PAIN PUMP & PAIN STIMULATOR?

Hi @dizzydaisy -- the pump injects medication, the stimulator is like a TENs unit. Here's some info from the Spine Health website:

-- https://www.spine-health.com/treatment/pain-management/spinal-cord-stimulators-and-pain-pumps-implantable-systems-neuropathy

John

The pain pump works the stimulator, in my experience is useless. It is supposed to block pain signals. The pump delivers tiny amounts of drugs directly to the spine. 1 mg. of dilaudid from the pain pimp is worth 300 mg. of dilaudid taken as pills. If a tens unit works for you, then the stimulator will probably work as well. When the tens didn't work for me they didn't even test the stimulator.