Welcome aboard this good place! Severe surgical pain was NOT the case for me six months post surgery, and if it had been I would truly be sitting in the surgeon's office to ask one simple question........."Why?"
If you followed all of the post surgical instructions and the BLAST concept of no Bending, Lifting, Stretching, Twisting there should not be a reason for the surgical sites to continue irreconcilable pain this long. I did hurt fairly severely for a couple of weeks post surgery for the T8-T9 implant of my SCS paddles, the run of the wiring down to my right hip, and the creation of the pocket for the stim generator........ but by six months post surgery I had even fully weaned off of all of the pain medications used to manage pain pre-surgery!
Please consider getting an appointment with your surgeon to inquire "WHY?"
In the meantime, I will add you to my prayers,
Mark56
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