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Spinal Cord stimulator battery pain

Posted by luamiller @luamiller, Mar 4, 2024

Just curious if anyone has pain where your spinal cord stimulator battery sits at in your backside. If you do what has helped? Mine is really bothersome while sleeping and lying on that side

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choosejoy | @choosejoy | 1 day ago
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@alexandercrps Thanks for your thoughts on this. Is using ice being counterproductive just for the condition you have? She hasn't been diagnosed with that condition. How were you diagnosed with that? What specialty did the diagnosis?
We have heard many times when trying to get a appointment "the Doctor doesn't treat that". They try to herd us to Pain Management. I want a Doctor the can diagnose her exact issue at the source. What I keep getting is no Doctor willing to except that challenge for whatever reason. To me that is just logic, they ignore that thinking.
We have a new Abbott Rep/Tech that so far wants her to contact her when she has an issue. The Rep/Tech is starting all over again from scratch attempting to get her better relief. I'm somewhat skeptical, but the rep seems sincere, so we are giving it another chance. She suggested new settings last night that allowed her to get some relief, and it helped relieve the pain. Extended relief would be nice, even 50%. We will see if we can get there. If it has been misuse of the SCS until now that would be the best case.
Maybe the first tech just wasn't the right one for her. We also have an appointment with the Surgeon that put her SCS in, as well as a Neurosurgeon at a different clinic to talk about her condition. No idea if we will be encouraged or discouraged talking with this new doctor. As for the laminectomy for paddles we really don't want to do that, or another surgery for an implant again if it can be avoided. As for the pump that would be a last resort that she doesn't want to do. We would need to learn much more detail about it.
Thanks for the info I'll certainly consider it, and it may be helpful for me to research, and ask the Doctors about it.

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The Boston Scientific SCS I had implanted in Dec 2023 was done with the laminectomy/paddle placement at T10/11. The wire leads run from that to the battery pack in my right glute. I have had a lot of nerve pain relief thankfully.
You may have mentioned earlier but did your wife go through a trial of the SCS with a pain doc? That is how mine started and based on the success of that I moved forward with the surgery. Post surgery pain was a lot since it covered mid back down to glute. It was hard to lay down on my back, so spent a lot of time sleeping on my side. But that temporary pain was worth the long term gain.
Best of luck to you.

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cman55 | @cman55 | 1 day ago
In reply to @choosejoy "@cman55 The Boston Scientific SCS I had implanted in Dec 2023 was done with the laminectomy/paddle..." + (show)
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@cman55
The Boston Scientific SCS I had implanted in Dec 2023 was done with the laminectomy/paddle placement at T10/11. The wire leads run from that to the battery pack in my right glute. I have had a lot of nerve pain relief thankfully.
You may have mentioned earlier but did your wife go through a trial of the SCS with a pain doc? That is how mine started and based on the success of that I moved forward with the surgery. Post surgery pain was a lot since it covered mid back down to glute. It was hard to lay down on my back, so spent a lot of time sleeping on my side. But that temporary pain was worth the long term gain.
Best of luck to you.

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@choosejoy Yes she went through a 6 day trial, and received what she guessed was 50% relief.
However, the implanting surgery did not give that kind of relief. I'm glad you got relief, but it doesn't happen for some people. Her injury was a crack in L5 a Kyphoplasty Spine Jack procedure, many injections, ablation, epidural, and finally a SCS. Lot's of Meds being tried now that causes her to be unsteady. She has Osteoporosis, and that is why her L5 fracture happened because of falling on hard tile. So lot's of different factors I am theorizing can lead to different outcomes with a SCS. The Doctor that did the Kyphoplasty after the pain continued, and became more pins, and needles did an MRI that we requested said "I don't see anything Wrong". Basically translated I did my job. Bye.

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