What wonderful news MK!!! Thrilled for you that you currently love your SCS, and I hope and pray for you that it continues to do its job. Mine has been in since 30 June 2010 and I am still feeling blessed and thrilled. Regarding lingering surgical pain.... that tends to abate with time, so strive for patience as the body heals. Everyone is different, and projections are at best statistical guesses. I imagine one day you will awaken and go, "hey, where is that surgical pain?!"
Thrilled for you,
Mark56
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