Hi Perth mum, I'm from Perth as well and I'm having the senza implanted at the mount hospital on Tuesday December 17. I'm new to this site so apologies up front!

I've suffered on and off with chronic pain since breaking my back as a 16 year old and have had 3 spinal fusions, the last being in a June this year, a double spinal fusion to L4,5 & S1.

My first fusion in 1977 gave me 15 years of good quality and relatively pain free life, but in the early 90's after travelling in the UK it deteriorated rapidly and resulted in me being in a plaster cast for 3 months and in 1994 they did another fusion. From the time it was done I kept saying something is wrong and after 2 years they finally agreed to an X-Ray and found the plates and screws were broken, they were removed in 1996.

All was reasonable until I had a car accident in 2004 (not my fault) and sustained further lower spine injury and significant cervical trauma. Since 2006 I have been having rhyzotomies and epidurals every 6 months or so and in August 2012 after an epidural I had a seizure due to an acute headache (leaking fluid from the dura) and while seizing sustained compression fractures to the thoracic region T3,4,5 & 6 and a stress fracture to S1. I had to give up work as I couldn't sit for long, so in June 2013 they did the double fusion. Post op I had complications and the latest fusion has highlighted I have problems with discs L2 and L3 so I was referred to a new pain mgt specialist and he believed its as good as it's going to get and rather than continue with Rhyzotomies (I think the leaking Dura complication worried him) trialled the Senza. It gave me some relief, well I think it did, but I had a difficult trial with the lead being faulty. Anyway, after this long introduction, I'm wondering how you went with the implant and how you are going to this day? I hope it's gone well?