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I have a spinal cord implant. Boston Scientific. I love it. Unfortunately, i also needed to change my diet to help my body. My suggestion is stop all refined sugar. Fruits are ok but anything with cane (white) sugar stop putting it in your body; No red meat. Fish or poultry; limit alcohol or completely stop it; exercise..just move. Sugar causes so much damage to your body. I have CRPS and arthritis. Changing my diet made a huge change. Some folks don’t like hearing this because they don’t want to give up sweets. For me, it was a no brainer. Try it for 6 weeks. See if it doesn’t make a difference. I started it last November and am amazed.

Eliminating sugar there's 100 names listed on web MD. You can't eat fish or poultry ? How you getting protein ? Ensure complete 30g Protein (walmart cheapest price 13.00/4.
They have you on this diet cuz of spinal cord implant?

Day two of spinal cord stimulator trial. No pain relief. Have tried both programs, with parasthesia and one without. I clicked up the stimulation, but I could really feel it when I laid down on my bed. Rep is supposed to call this am to speak about something. I think this trial is a bust. I don't see any other options right now.

Thank you. It's wonderfull that you have been blessed with 100% pain relief for so long. What would you say your average daily pain was, on a scale of 1-10? My trial has shown no positive effects as of yet. God bless.

Day two of spinal cord stimulator trial. No pain relief. Have tried both programs, with parasthesia and one without. I clicked up the stimulation, but I could really feel it when I laid down on my bed. Rep is supposed to call this am to speak about something. I think this trial is a bust. I don't see any other options right now.

Day three of SCS trial. No pain relif yet. Rep called yesterday and had me switch to a different program. Supposed to slowly release stimulation to the body. Will take about 48 hours to feel something, if anything. Anyone else have success with SCS trial several days after implant?

I gave up using the stimulator after about 6 mos. with no relief.

Were you able to find anything that helped? Looking for something,anything, that might help...witch doctors included. lol.

The only help I get are from using oxycodone, which usually just takes the edge off the pain, bed rest, and physical therapy, which many times actually aggravated my situation. So far, mostly half-baked solutions.

I hear you loud and clear. Injections, nerve ablations,PT, pain pump… virtually no effect. I thought that since my old SCS helped for a while, newer, more advanced one should help. We’ll, four days into the trial and nothing, zippo, nada. Tramadol, gabapentin, diclofenac barely do anything.
Hope you find some help.