Sorry I haven't been able to keep up on everyone's postings. Have gone back on the dilaudid, sigh!! The pain in the upper back/shoulder blades is just too much to handle. I see the pain mgmt. dr. on Weds. so hoping he has some answers on what's up with my cervical SCS.

Just don't understand why the trial went so splendid but not having such good pain relief with the permanent. What's the difference? Is it where they place the leads for the cervical trial...is it in a different place than where they place the leads for the permanent?

When I was last in, they said they could tell by the laptop they hooked me up to that my leads had not migrated and gave me the speech about coverage moving/changing as we heal, etc. etc. Holy cow, it's been six months now. Shouldn't things be settled in by now?

Can you tell I'm getting a little sarcastic here... just have had about enough of it. Have tried turning the thing off but it makes the pain even worse, so I suppose it is helping somewhat. This is NOT what I was expecting/hoping for!!