Hi All! I'm so happy to have found a place where people can relate to me and my chronic pain. I'm a young mom, newly-wed, disabled (yet denied SS disability), and in constant pain in my lower back down my entire L leg. I had my fusion May 2009, after many other attempts at pain relief: medial branch blocks, epidurels, trigger point injections, PT, narcotics, etc. Unfortunately, the fusion felt great for 6 months, then the pain came back and worsened, now my upper back above gets super sore from time-time. I'm sinking back into depression as my SS disability was denied, my year of state disability ran out, and I can't sit or stand long enough to work. I have no financial backup's at all, and I can't offer my daughter or husband any financial income at all. Anyway, after the fusion stopped working, my spinal Dr. said he didn't want to "go in searching anymore" or something like that. He passed me onto the UCSD Pain clinic again for alternate pain relief. Now Dr. Mark Wallace at the Pain Clinic says my only hope for my exact case is a SCS (spinal cord stimulator). I'm extremely fearful and need others stories for more opinions of how it has / or has not worked for you...I want to go back to work, but don't see that happening anytime soon. I want to have another child, has anyone had a child after the SCS? I want to get off all these yucky narcotics (I'm on 120 mg morphine daily) and percocet (as needed), has anyone gotten 100% off meds, too? THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INFO AND ADVICE in advance!