How awful!

Hurt? Yeah, it did, but then all of my surgeries hurt...

It took some getting used to the stim routing up my spine. Generator in hip. Thoracic dive into the dura space for the paddle leads. That able strung between. The cable routing was the greatest irritant. After seeing doc, I understood why..... It is inserted via a stainless steel probe which looks like a long spike, and pulled beneath the skin from one incision to the other dragging the wire into place. A goodly bit of irritated tissue says "why did you do that?!?" afterward.

It was weeks before it calmed... But it did calm.

My stim was not activated until two weeks after implant. This allowed surgical site calming, and by then I was fully ready to have it turned on.

I pray your stim situation will resolve soon!
M56