Not at ALL goofy, my dear precious friend.......(i am so glad i met you )

You are case in point to what I've been saying to several people regarding how there are always new friends around every corner! When I found out you had a SCS and had the opportunity to read your testimony in your other thread, it blew my mind!
You are a true trailblazer here, because this particular forum is pretty new, and your SCS is unique to what the majority here are familiar with!

I encourage EVERYone to read your testimony!

To answer your question: in my case......i simply was NOT given a 'choice'. I'm a bit disappointed in how my Dr handled this from the get go.
Like you indicated, there was NO options discussed as far as which model I would like to know about, or which company I would like to learn about....NONE of that! Evidentally, my local hospital must have a contract with Medtronics and that's all they deal with. I live in a rural area, so I'm thinking we get what we get. period! I'm seeing that the advantage to living in more of an urban area, there is more to choose from.

And the fact that I was in so much pain and in such a vulnurable state of being desperate for pain relief, I just followed along like a little puppy to the place I was told to be at the appointed time and it was a rushed thing. The Dr simply was too 'busy' with 'supply and demand' that he just handed me a DVD to look over, and say yes or no regarding going thru with the procedure!
And it was all being thrown at me so quickly and I was so 'new' to even having to accept that this was really the route I was going to have to go if I wanted a chance of relief.

As a matter of fact, now that you bring this up, I am going to ask my Dr at my 'tweek session' in a couple weeks WHY they don't give us the option of the non-rechargable. I'll be anxious to see what he says and i'll post back to your thread to let you know.

I'm VERY interested in what others will have to say.....
I hope others will weigh in on this, as you posted a VERY good question!!

So, bottom line (in my case anyway,,,,like you, there WAS no choice!)