Hi, I'm new. 59 years old, back pain all my life but I ignored it. After all, doesn't every one have back pain?

5 years ago the pain started getting bad. Doctor finally sent me to a pain specialist. MRI showed it all. Scoliosis, degenerative facet joints, disk, stenosis which was bad enough that I required a lumpectomy to return strength to my right leg.

My pain management Dr says if pain threshold weren't so high, I would have been in earlier. I don't know about that but my teeth can't take anymore.

After PT, shots, Tramadol (the others make me sick), and radio frequency we decided to try SCS. I'm having my trial run starting 01/30/2012. I'm excited, fearful, hopeful and everything else many of you may have been.

I don't have a dramatic story, I just got arthritis and older. I tease my wife and tell her I have higgs boson desease. (gravity, sort of)

I would like to hear about experiences with SCS and Boston scientific. It's my pain management DR's brand of choice. Who am I to argue? I don't know squat.