Thanks for bumping the other post! Mark, thank you

I've had a 4 level cervical fusion, so there is a bunch of metal there that will never come out. I also have a vena cava filter. None of it bothers me.

As for me, I may not be in the same pain place as some of you, and I don't want to be. I'm debating should I go for surgery and "fix" it, possibly be worse off, and still have problems like I do with the cervical fusions. Or the stim, which seems the lesser of the two. I'm not doing much living now.

I have a 1 1/2 yo Maltese I wanted to train and show. I can't do it. For one thing, she's a far distance down to pet and treat! All that bending, hard to do. It was easier with my Aussie, bigger dog.

I don't seem to handle the pain meds I've tried very well. All of them knock me out of commission for at least 24 hours. No pain, but no me either. He wrote a rx for nucynta, I'm going to give it back to him.