kzlrogue and Leesa, thank you for your posts.... your testimony as to the benefits and potential detriments to following through with the SCS procedures. I have told my physiatrist would do trial implant and that I would be "in trial" for a period of 7 days. One forewarning I have received has been precisely the issue touched on with Leesa; namely, the restrictions of activity during the trial period.

Before I was injured in a car wreck, I used to be very, well...... upon reconsideration, VERY active. You know the routine, dancing with my wife [oh how I loved that- and I had taken lessons to boot], alpine skiing, hiking the Rockies, riding my now dusty mountain bike many miles a day, and then the more sedate fishing, home improvements [do it yourself style], and the like. I would like to be able to recapture some of those now lost activity opportunities, and it just seems that trying to do some [well, with doctor's concurrence] of those activities even if reigned in a bit would not only be a goal for a patient post-operatively, but a bit "in trial" so as to gain understanding whether in a real life application the full SCS implant would be efficatious.

Gosh, I just wanna get on the dance floor with my wife again.

Well, anyway, thank you for posting,
Mark56