I have paddle leads, not percutaneous, so the surgery was a bit more involved on my situation. There was not tremendous post-op pain, but a good bit of discomfort for not less than two weeks after the event.
You can see the writings referred to in the Sticky post I made at the top of the SCS page which include links to my writings [they are pretty detailed and quite LONG]. Sorry for the book length nature of the sharing]


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