Moira - I might be able to relate a little to your pain. All of my chronic pain stems from nerve damage from surgeries to excise a destructive benign tumor (and subsequent recurrence of said tumor) in one of the bones of my toe. I can tell you that NOTHING is more painful than that was....it felt like my toe was trying to explode from the inside out. Thankfully it looks like my tumor is not coming back (for now)...but given the sensations that I have from my stim - which covers that area of my foot - I would be willing to bet your pain would at least partially be covered.

Read the other posts around here to get a feel of what it is like. Ultimately you have to be comfortable both mentally and physically to move forward on the decision to try an SCS.