Hi Angelina, so sorry you are not feeling any relief and are having troubles with your trial. I currently have two SCS's implanted. I have RSD almost everywhere and because of that they could not do the trial in all areas. They did the trial on my left side, which ended up being a blessing because I could compare one side to the other. Anyway, on the second day of my trial, one of the stims stopped working properly. I called the rep, thankfully my reps are great, and he walked me thru a fix until I we could get into the dr's office for him to work on it...then all was good.

At first I hated the stimulation and then came to love it. There are certain stimulations and frequencies that bothered me. After the permanent implant, I developed pain in my lower back and the stimulation was torture. Turns out that the leads migrated and were stimulating the muscle and other things it shouldn't have and it was still stimulating where it was supposed to. The rep put it on a low frequency and it helped until they changed the leads out to paddle leads.

Your leads could've moved and you would still feel it in your legs. The trial leads are very easy to move because they are only taped down on the outside and not secured on the inside, so they can remove them easily at the end of the trial.

Sorry your dr is being such a jerk! I think you should contact your rep and have them adjust the settings/frequency to see if it would help your pain. If they can adjust it to help you, it would help you with your decision for getting, or not getting, the permanent. The good thing here is that you are getting to test this out first.

I hope you get some relief soon and am sorry that you are having to deal with this alone.

All the best,
Nanc