Hi Folks,
I'm new today. Found you by luck. I have a SCS by Medtronic permanently placed about one year ago. It provides little help. I am 50 years old and been suffering since a serious fall injury in 1978. At the time of the injury they told me they could not find anything wrong on xray so I should just live with the pain. I did until 1997 when the pain was so bad i could not even crawl into bed. I had an MRI and it showed a bulging disc at L5/S1. I had a micro-discectomy in August 97 and did not get any better after the surgeon said it was a success. Well in August 98 I had the same surgery again cause the disc was still there and bulging. This time the doc fused it with Ray fusion cage and donor bone. It helped a little but the second surgery triggered fibromyalgia, caused scar tissue to form around the nerve root and gave me stenosis. Since then I have had many failed procedures with the lates being the SCS. I am now on SS disability and regret that i can no longer take care of my family. My wife has to work two jobs and my sons do without a lot!! I also suffer from 3 types of arthritis and have had part of my colon removed from diverticulitis and have had both wrists operated on each twice for CTS.

I have lived on Vicodine and Lortabs for the last several years but recently developed an allergy to them as well as most other pain meds the doc has offered me. They told me my only option left is Methadone and I do not want to go that route. I would rather try medical marijuana first. Less problems with that (I think).

Is there anyone that can help me with information on it.
Thanks, TJ