I've noticed that when my stim is on that my skin feels 'itchy' at times
Like last night I was lying on couch when I noticed I had this odd sensation of itching. Like from the vibrations of the stim?! Very odd!!
Does anyone else notice that?

Jackie

Well, Jackie, the onlly itch suffered here has been the itch of incision healing. The sensation of stim use for me tends to be a profound buzz like that Tens unit on steroids except from deep within me, depending of course upon the strength of signal I adopt in use. You present a new perspective to me. Maybe someone else??

Calling all Butt Buzzers,
Mark56

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I was gonna say pretty much what Mark said (regarding the incision sites),
but there are times when the stimulation simply gets to be too much and my skin feels like it wants to start crawling and then I get a slight anxiety-ridden feeling of wanting to crawl OUT of my skin .......so i have to turn off the unit for awhile.
This doesn't happen often, only if I've had it on most of the day at a high setting. I try to give it a rest for a few hours (out of a 24-hour period) for the sake of not wanting my body to get too used to the buzzing and then maybe grow some sort of tolerance to it.....(I've heard of this happening, but not sure if it happens to a lot of people or if this is mainly folklore...)
Still learnin as we go.....

Yes Rae now that you say it, maybe its more a 'crawling' feeling it is....its just a bit 'unpleasant' . I had it on very high, (well as high as it would go for now) and it was becoming annoying I was shifting and turning the whole time to try to stop it........

Im now over my surgery 3 weeks and I do find that Ive gotten 'used' to the buzzing in my body. In the first week or so I though I would go mad!!!. Because one of the feelings that I have with my pain, is tingling, burning, throbbing, and when this was tingling/buzzing I though OH NO!!!! how am I going to survive. But then I checked out some of the settings etc and Ive now become more accustomed to it. In fact today, I was sitting out in the garden with my husband and the sun was shining(a rarity here in Ireland in Summer ) and my husband was asking how I was feeling. I said that I felt like I was in a jaccuzzi. Thats what the buzzing in my legs/back felt like SOOOOOOO relaxing!!!! .......good times ahead I feel

This is wonderful to hear Jackie!
PLUS, once you hook up with your Rep to get tweeked, make sure you tell him that you are using the highest settings........he'll be able to program even better options than what you have as the 'best' so far!

I was amazed when i went for my first tweak and found out that my amplitude can be set WAY higher than the one I was using! Only down side to this, of course, is that is sucks up more of your battery juice quicker.
But no complaints from me. I just need to be aware not to let my battery get too low.

Make it count when you get with your Rep! Communicate EVERYthing! They've heard it all, and the only mistake you can possibly make is not communicating EXACTLY what you are feeling and what you would like to feel improved!
You GO girl!

Why is it I keep missing you all. Earlier today I went to the chat room. I saw Mark was 'there' but alas I had to leave without even saying hello.
Hope you all enjoy the rest of ur sat evening. I've just had a beautiful night babysitting my granddaughter with my husband and youngest daughter Nicola. She ADORED it as we all did. Heaven!!!! Rae you have SO much to look forward to


Nite all