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I spoke to Dr Park at MHealth in Mpls. MN today, concerning the use of a...
I was having my pain pump refiled. ... pump works on pain all over the body ... If my pain guy only did stimulators ... I was tested for the stimulator and ... pump and read about them.
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Mar 2, 2020
Hello to everyone! It sounds like we all have been on a journey to get here,...
Charlotte, NC from Boston in 2004 and the pain ... epidural cortisone shots, a spinal cord stimulator ... and a pain pump implanted and nothing
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Jan 23, 2020
You sound a lot like me: never really sick, never spent a night in the hospital,...
ski fall I experienced lower back pain ... A year later I had a spinal cord stimulator ... Along with the meds I was almost pain ... Then the pain came flooding back for ... I had the pain pump implanted in 2023
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Feb 10 11:43am
You would have to test the meds orally before knowing how they will work. Dilaudid is...
addiction although my Doctor say if my pump ... We turned my pump up several times to ... cannot fix, if you are going to be in pain ... I was tested for the electrical stimulator ... and that was ruled out so the pump
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Nov 9, 2018
I guess it would depend on the doctor involved whether or not you need to fail...
whether or not you need to fail with the pain ... stimulator prior to getting a pump. ... I was never tested for the kind of stimulators ... would let me have surgery to have the pump ... concerned about any open wounds with a stimulator
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Nov 12, 2018
Genetic testing will help I see where it will have its place but hogwash it’s not...
all including genetic testing spinal stimulation ... implants , pain pumps , Etc . your
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Mar 24 9:49am
@pfbacon Hi Peggy. Oh my! When and what did I start with? Before peripheral neuropathy hit,...
Then, on to a pain specialist, who had ... taking morphine because I still had pain ... The drg stimulator is on the table, ... about weighing the benefit of the stimulator ... against having a pump implant.
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Aug 27, 2019
Why yes, yes I do the pain pump works and as far as I know the...
Why yes, yes I do the pain pump works ... and as far as I know the electrical stimulator
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Mar 3, 2019
Very sorry for the long post, but I foolishly had a L5-S1 laminectomy, in 2012, by...
the surgery I had extreme sacroanal pain ... He sent me to an interventional pain ... to immediately put in a spinal cord stimulator ... pump evaluation and not get a spinal ... cord stimulator, because I had clumped
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Feb 23, 2019
Hello my name is brad, new member as of today. I had a motorcycle accident in...
The pain is constant and very severe ... I have tried a stimulator and morphine ... pump both to control the pain but unfortunately ... I had the stimulator and pump from 2004 ... My pain management dr.
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Feb 15, 2019
Thank you for replying. I have thought about a pain pump. Because I really don’t see...
I have thought about a pain pump. ... Because I really don’t see how a pain ... stimulator is going to help my pain ... pharmacy so I can get a refill of my pain ... I go to the pain doctor this Monday
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Jul 5, 2018
The opioid epidemic sucks. They can't seem to do anything about the abusers so they're taking...
pump surgically installed in my abdomen ... familiar with this device it is a small pump ... Electro stimulation had not worked for ... couldn't risk the surgery for the pump ... Once you have it, (the pain pump), you
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Feb 10, 2018
Totally understand. My pain management /rehab doctor is retiring and I use behavioral--mediation---tapping, i.e., chiropractic, botox...
My pain management /rehab doctor is ... dystonia, TENS, Voltaren gels, Teracin pain ... procedures that did nothing but hurt and NO pumps ... or stimulators. ... problems going on and the myofascial pain
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Feb 7, 2018
@peggyri, Peggy, after I posted I was thinking .. a really good resource for you could...
joint pain clubbing of the fingertips ... that makes it too painful to cough ... My pain management uses it when he’s ... epidural injections, a spinal cord stimulator ... trial and a morphine pump trial, and
Support Group: MAC & Bronchiectasis
Posted: Jun 26, 2017
I have been dealing with painful peripheral neuropathy for about 10 to 12 years. My main...
My main pain is in the bottoms of my ... therapy, Acupuncture and Spinal Cord Stimulator ... on a new and improved Spinal Cord Stimulator ... Pump. ... the programs of the new Spinal Cord Stimulator
Support Group: Neuropathy
Posted: Apr 10, 2016
This is my very first post ever, and first "group" message board I've ever joined so...
anyone tried the following: INTRATHECAL PAIN ... PUMP, (I'm on my 2nd spinal cord stimulator ... far more people out there in more pain
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Apr 5, 2016
I have a medtronic spinal cord stimulator and had it before the pain pump. It has...
I have a medtronic spinal cord stimulator ... and had it before the pain pump. ... It has helped more than the pump. ... It doesn't take the pain away, but ... the stimulation distracts from the
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Feb 3 4:24pm
I hear you, brother! Your story could be mine. I fell while skiing back in 2016...
a cocktail of meds that brought my pain ... Had spinal cord stimulator implanted ... Had pain pump implanted in 2023. ... Has never given any pain relief. ... gabapentin, diclofenac K, baclofen for the pain
Support Group: Spine Health
Posted: Feb 1 10:40am
Yes, getting old stinks, but it's better than dying. Lol! The pain pump was my last...
The pain pump was my last resort to ... suggested...nerve oblation, spinal cord stimulator ... , and now the pain pump.
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Feb 1 7:57pm