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theoneRogue420 · 06-27-2007, 05:58 AM

Best of luck, I sure hope it gives you some relief.

But I want to ask a question along these same lines... and maybe it's a warning to you, as well.

I was given a micro-tens unit by an incredibly nice woman here at this site. (And the story I am about to relate is in NO way her fault, she better not take it that way, I love her to death for trying to help me ) I had used a tens in the past, and it helped quite a bit. My ins. now wouldn't pay for one unless I went to PT 3x weekly, so I was trying to buy a used unit here.

When I tried it out, I could barely feel it. It was so low that at first I thought the battery was dead, lol. But after about 5 minutes, that very minor low electrical feeling became more than I could bear. I had to take it off. The problem, I think, stemmed from it being a "microtens" unit.

I have been having the same awful prickly feeling I got from 5 min. of the microtens ever since it happened. It just won't go away! Grrr! I think it is just like my sensitivity to touch... I can handle a firm touch much more easily than I can a "feather-light" one. It's the gentle ones that bring on the sx much harder. Is it that way for any of the rest of you?

So what I meant by a warning is that even 5 min. of the wrong treatment can cause much misery... I have always felt that way about all the surgical procedures they do for rsd/crps. What I never realized is that the most seemingly innocuous thing, like a tens unit, can be just as bad.