My husband had a SCS implanted 12 weeks ago. So far not so good. We have a follow up appointment this upcoming Monday with a spinal pain institute that we met with before he had his implant. We were told the implant would help with a minimum of 40% of his pain. To date my husband can't even turn it on because now he has an extreme amount of pain at the top of his back where he has never had pain before but where the top incision was done to feed the leads for the implant down. My husband had the trial done before the permanent implant and the trial worked well which is why he went ahead with the permanent implant. If you have more specific questions give me a message.
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Originally Posted by Rrae
Hello
I am wondering if there are many here who have interest in these implantable units for chronic pain?
It seems there are more and more folks coming to the board looking for info on these units. For some reason, especially lately, it seems doctors are practically forcing people to get these units.
I am scheduled to get the SCS later this month.
I usually post on the RSD forum, as there are quite a few folks there with the stimulators and/or pain pumps.
We have put in a request to open a new forum or subforum specifically for discussion on this topic.
Are there many here on the Spinal and Back Pain forum who would be interested in having this forum? If so, would you be willing to share your stories and experiences for the benefit of those seeking out this information.
Reason for asking, there are SCS posts scattered throughout a few other forums and it would be very convenient to have a forum that people could go to without having to do a 'search' on all the other forums.
People are very hungry for info on this!
Thank you all
Rae
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