Pam/Alaina,

Responding to the psych about being uncertain would have most certainly disqualified anyone wanting to be approved for a trial. I guess I answered all the questions well enough to get the "okay" for the trial. I had always had my doubts if I wanted to deal with the wires and a battery slipped usually in the buttock area, etc.;

Alaina: as Pam indicated, it is how you may have answered questions which most of us had our doubts. I would not consider that a psych failure;.... just the fact you were not a good candidate for an SCS. Which may or may not have been a good thing.

I had a failed trial with the vibrations in the groin and knee areas. Not nice. My PM wanted me to do another trial.....I said "no"; I had only agreed to the trial in the first place because I felt pressured by my PM.

Pam; you are right tho; you really have to have believe it will work and want it enough to have a good positive attitude. I did not...

In my case I am glad I did not do the SCS. Since the trial, I have had three surgeries below the waist and groin areas that would have really messed up the wires/leads for the SCS.


Gerry