Hi Bratette- Thank you for coming here and trusting to post. Caring folks will clamor to give you their thoughts and hugz. Here is one

If you just had the SCS implant, you have just been through significant surgery. At least two incisions and the push of an implement from one incision to the other to pass through the wires to connect the leads to the signal generator. It all produces pain. If you had paddle leads emplaced in your spine as I did, you have probably had a laminectomy, which means some of your spinal bone was removed to make way for the paddles to be inserted. Much has been done. Pain is the natural result. Good news is it will pass.

My docs and especially the nurses said USE THE PAIN MEDS POST SURGICALLY TO STAY AHEAD OF THE PAIN. They were not kidding me when it was said. The hurt was outa sight.

All of this being said, if you follow post surgical restrictions such as BLAST [no bending, lifting, stretching, twisting], walk, take your pain meds, walk, be kind to yourself, walk, and then walk some more [not to excess, but enough to let those disturbed muscles know things are OK, then you will soon see relief on the horizon. A couple of weeks of pain would not be outside the norm. It will decline as that time progresses.

Use the prescribed pain meds. Not to excess, just as prescribed. It will help calm the fear. For me the surgical incisions calmed faster than that channel through which the implement [it looks like a stainless steel spike] was passed. That channel was irritated for a good while, but it did calm.

THEN...... when your program is turned on, hopefully you will know the JOY I felt when the stim was brought online. It gave me peace from the unrelenting nerve pain. It is not absolutely perfect....but, I was able to totally abandon the pain meds and get my career up and running again. I hope and pray the same for you.

All the best,