After getting over the initial pain from the cervical trial implant, I've noticed it's helping quite a bit Has helped reduce my headache, my jaw tightness/pain, and my neck pain. We're still working on trying to get reduced pain in my shoulders, but hard to tell if part of the pain I still have is due to the fall through the deck steps that I took the day prior to the SCS trial. At this point, I have been able to go 36 hrs. without any pain meds. at all!!! Yeah. This is a big deal for me as I've been on Dilaudid 3 mg. suppositories and Phenergren Suppositories three times a day for weeks now. I talked to my PCP and he was shocked to hear that I haven't had to take my pain meds. I don't think he quite believed the whole concept of the SCS...I had taken the initiative myself to go see my pain management dr....all my PCP could offer me was to go on methadone, which I did NOT want to do. Anyhow, so far so good. Thanks for your kind thoughts/prayers