C'mon, I have seen this question partially answered in other places. I know there are lots of you with an SCS for peripheral neuropathy. Surely some of you can help me know which sensations an SCS is helpful for and which it is not.

Hi Steven, my SCS is for chronic lower back pain due to injury. It is relentless pain and varies as it chooses for no rhyme or reason, yesterday it hurt to sit and stand, today, not so much. The SCS has helped my pain management and I have been able to return to work along with reducing medication.

I can't comment on a peripheral nerve stimulator, but hopefully, like the SCS it offers a trial before you commit.

I wish you luck. Have you tried asking the question on the PN forum?

Is for high speed traffic accident spinal injury pain in low spine and legs. After many surgeries, I experienced unrelenting spasms and burning pain lumbar down to the knees. Below that I feel nothing, but I can walk with some stability problems, so Inuse a cane.

With that background, the stim produces a tingling sensation, which produces parasthesia. Depending on the intensity of the pain I am experiencing, I can ramp it all of the way up to causing, via parasthesia, paralysis.....absolute loss of sensation. This effect means I must be confined to bed or wheelchair. Such use is rare for me, and I tend toward the lesser tingling intensity.

The cool thing about this is I was able to wean from opiates with the rare exceptional use to control a pain spike breakthrough I cannot overcome via stim.

Nope, I am not a standard PN patient. Just thought I would try to describe my situation as a help.

M56