About post surgical pain management...... doctors and nurses alike have told me I do myself no favors by withholding pain meds post surgery. The pain of being sliced and having a spike run through the tissue to pull wire leads along the channel for emplacement of connections to the generator unit is Nothing like that long term pain management. It is serious stuff.

Sure, I became medically "dependent" on pain management meds over the years of chronic nerve pain, but that extra piece of what Doc prescribed to overcome post surgical pain was necessary. THEN I did the hard work of withdrawing from all pain meds according to plan and monitored by Doc gradually. We did this together. It was well worth it. Before this eruption of nerve pain from my cervical spine down the right arm, I was taking no pain med of any kind. The stim was doing all pain management for my lower body. It can for you too, in time......

So, the one thing I offer, is use the prescribed post surgical pain meds according to script to "get there." When the pain of surgery is history, you may also be where I was, Pamela, able to withdraw from everything and call it a thing of the past.

Prayin for ya,
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