Thank you. I guess a big fear of getting the tunneled epideral catheter well one being the side effects but also I have to push with extreme activity to make it stronger. I have been pushing so hard now without it but not like bike riding or pt exercise like that cause I fear that but doing a lot of daily errands or even a small walk. I'm in so much pain and I feel sometimes damage is being done. So if I get the catheter and its only for pain relief and they have me doing the bike so on and then after the 6 weeks with the catheter it makes it worse then what there is no accountability. Also there is nothing to take the pain away. The reason why I could not do the pain program at cc was cause it was all day walking around plus the pool,yoga and they wanted me to do the bike or eliptical but I drew the line. I have seen so many docs like I said and all say the same that I need to be on them and in the short run it hurts like hell but makes it better in the long run. The last ones were the ones at Cleveland clinic who do specialise in this issue. I keep going to more docs for more opinions for the same response. I still don't get how it makes it better and when I ask they say it makes it stronger and so it doesn't atrophe. That the pain is when its not used to being used. Does it just take so long to see improvement and why are there some days where its better then the next to be horrid pain?Thanks