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Originally Posted by krank
I totally agree with you...when I went into the doctors office where I was to get the scs trial his office looked like I stepped into a Sprint or ATT store..It was crazy. Huge billboard like posters showing the latest and greatest scs equipment...I almost asked him if they had a app to start my car with it...When the doctor showed up all he talked about was the new Boston scientific with the new auto timer function to stop it after 20 minutes..I almost had to ask him if actually wanted to see my RSD infected leg...I actually did the trial with that hack....Oh and when he found out it didnt work on me his demeaner changed like a flip of a switch....He wanted nothing to do with me.....And actually blamed me for it not working.. Bad experience all around....Sooo if your in Fargo ND just PM me and I will give out the name of the quack...I know that its harder for the scs's to work on lower limb RSD...Thats just what Ive heard...Everyone IS different...After my experience I learned to do my homework when its come to doctors now.
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On that note, check out a post I put up a couple of years' ago on the greasing of palms that clearly surrounded the whole medical implantation industry.
Scs cost 57,000??? R u kidding (post #13)
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread97952-2.html I suppose the only "good news" in the picture is that Medtronic's sales of SCSs fell by 1% in 2010, over the previous year, suggesting that someone is finally getting the message. Medtronic’s Profit Falls 19 Percent on Layoff Costs, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 24, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/bu...mplants&st=cse
Seriously, for anyone interested in this area, you should check out the articles posted by the RSDSA on its Medical Achieve page, under the heading
Spinal Cord Stimulation and Neuromodulation at
http://www.rsds.org/researchlibrary.html#SCS. When you cut through the fluff - and there are a lot of articles by doctors who serve as paid consultants to the industry,
it is absolutely uncontested that in the best possible case, a SCS will provide relief for no more than three years,
time in the early stage of one's illness that you could otherwise have used to pursue therapies that are not as effective once your RSD/CRPS has become "chronic," i.e., old and cold.
Mike
ps And I sure would like to know how my old post - the one Ballerina referred to - was removed from NT. Because it's
gone. And I'm 100% convinced that NT management had NOTHING to do with it . . . .