I answered and greeted you here:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread159054-2.html

Just click it and you will go to the other thread in which you posted.

That part about nervousness I did not address in your other post, so here goes the nervous part......

OK, when I first came here seeking answers to my questions, I was VERY NERVOUS about having some more metal stuck in my body since my spine is part titanium already. I was experienced at such surgeries, and they were not fun at all, in fact quite painful, but produced good results. Even so, the nervie pain and numbness lingered.

Ultimately my physiatrist/pain doc suggested my wife and I contemplate SCS as a means to help manage the pain which fully debillitated me, making me bed ridden with the equation of pain and meds galore. I was game, but nervous...... whaddya mean put something on my spinal cord?????? Worried things could get worse, as is among the fine print.... some lawyer must have written all of that stuff [inside joke].

So, bottom line, through God's grace, the gentle reassurance and support I received here, and a lot of desperation, I finally consented to SCS in 2010. It was wonderful!!!! I have been able to resume my career which had been interrupted by the dreadful imprisonment of pain. Matter of fact, I am jotting this to you before I head in to the office. How about that?

SCS applications have been implanted for all manner of pain profile, even facial pain as you may read elsewhere on this forum. So, include the face pain folks, the cervical pain folks with radicular pain into the arms, the thoracic and lumbar pain folks, and you pretty much cover the human body. We are the BORG and resistance is futile! [bad joke, but true].

If you consent to the Trial surgery, the very first step after the psych eval, you will know immediately whether the pain you experience will be managed at all by such a system. For me it was "dying and going to heaven" without the dying part. I was permanently implanted June 30, 2010 and I have not looked back. The future is out there for me and I am striving for it for all I am worth. Do you want to join me on the quest??? It may prove worthwhile.

Prayin for ya,
Mark56