Especially if you are slender..... really slender, the tissue through which the wire connections between computerbattery pack and the leads or paddles could be ultra sensitive and SORE like heQQ if your physician was forced to push the wire leading device through muscle tissue.

My surgeon explaine the method of wire threading for implant and to avoid a foot and a half incision in the back between the laminectomy and the pocket positions is precisely this..... a surgical steel implement akin to a large nail spike is driven beneath the skin through the tissues to thread wires between one opening and the other. Think of running a knitting needle through from one opening to the next, dragging the wiring along.

I learned when muscle tissue is traumatically disturbed, as was the case in my deep back surgeries for fusion et al, the muscle tissue remains ULTRA painful and irritated a LONG TIME after surgery. Every move after fusion was as though I was literally pulling my body in half. I would stick a washcloth to prevent my shrieking from being heard as was not the case for my next door patient room neighbor who quite easily shared his shrieks, screams, moans and thus all through the days and nights I was in hospital. I wanted ruby slippers so I could click them saying "there's no place like home, there's no place like home" but Judy Garland's feet were probably NEVER my size and it would look too weird for a guy to wear them anyway.

So, now I have given two possible perspectives. On your thread, fear of infection, and here, realization and recollection of my EXTREME pain after my muscle tissue was literally scraped from the spine and retracted out of the way to open the surgical field for fusion et al. Now, take such overwhelming muscle pain and consider the possibility in your situation. The difference? I was kept in Hospital on a morphine drip living somewhere whence a yellow brick road appeared and I was flying so high, I am surprised I was not restrained to the bed...... oh, wait a minute, I was restrained to the bed, literally tied down. Yup, uncomfortable does not came anywhere near describing that situation. Not at all.

Prayin,
Mark56