Does anyone have or know anything about a Peripheral Nerve Stimulator?

A peripheral nerve stimulator....... you may have come to the very place you sought for we are the buzzers who know much from soup to nuts [where did that saying come from?] on stimulators.

Long before I was considered a patient who might benefit from the surgical implant of a Spinal Cord Stimulator, the device which does stimulate the nerves so as to manage the pain of my permanently damaged peripheral nerves of the lower body, I was issued an interferential neuro stimulator [written as part of my LONG thread]. The interferential neuro stimulator was topically applied to my lumbar spine in a criss-cross fashion with conjoined stim pads placed on an X axis in that lumbar area. Wires were plugged into the stim pads [gummy gel pads with wiring embedded to effect signal transmission], and the whole contraption of wires led to the base unit about the bulky size of one of the original calculators from WAY before most people were born. The bulkiness of the base unit allowed both battery, rechargeable, and controls of simple only twenty minute length programs to be accessed to send stim waves like a TENS unit on steroids into the affected tissue.

I faithfully used that device for at least a couple of years, always recharging it because it barely held enought, always catching wires on some knob and jerking myself around; BUT that was my friend to manage pain along with the cocktail of pain meds I was prescribed. It was a love, hate, relationship. But it worked until the miraculous blessing of SCS came into my life.

If this is not your true question, I will happily delve into the next of your questions. So, JCRA, ball back to you,

Here for you,
Mark56

It's great to have you here!

I personally don't know much about these, but from what I've googled I gather this is something you carry around with you and there is no surgery involved, yes?
This is something we should incorporate into the 'sticky' section of the forum for people to get a visual on and information to read.

If anyone else here used one of these, I hope they respond.
Thank you, Mark.....and thank you jrca for bringing up a good question!

Rae