Hello and sorry to that your pain in your arm is acting up.

I have nerve pain in my right hand, wrist, and entire arm now since early 2007. I had several surgery's to try to fix my nerve but so far not healing right. The pain keeps getting worst to the point that I now am lucky to get 1 hour each night of sleep. My PM Dr. from day 1 has told me that I need a SCS to make my nerve pain go away so I can get a full night of sleep and live with little to no pain.

I have been reading up on these SCS units here and on other forums. What I have found is the SCS work well for folks with back pain and hip, knee, leg pain. What I also found was many folks with hand, wrist, arm, shoulder, upper back seem to have less pain relief and for a short amount of time less then a year then they have the SCS removed.

All I can say for all that we have to go through to get one of these implanted it needs to work well by no less then 75% pain relief from the beginning and for many years there after no matter which area of the body the pain is located.

I understand that each person is different but when it comes to pain relief the out come should and needs to be the same when it comes to these SCS. Long lasting pain relief.

I see a lot of Drs. pushing and trying to hard to get their patients to get these as the cure all for everyones pain. But as I keep finding more feed back it appears this is not the case with a lot of people that have had these SCS. When I questioned my Dr. really hard about this I could see he was getting mad and at the same time not giving me any answers. So sense I could not get the answers I needed from my PM Dr. I will not get a SCS.

There are many folks here that this is working for them right now and good for them. And I hope they continue to get many years of pain relief.