Originally Posted by trainwreck

The unit was left in dead battery, leads and all-the doctor is no longer working on non-military people so there is no one to remove it. If the battery case corrodes or leaks we will deal with it then. My pump is in my back hip the catheter is in my S3 with a long lead up to T6 so that is why I can feel it moving and tugging. I can also feel when they remove meds or add them via a long needle into the hip pump. The snail sludge med wasn't an option so I am on heavy doses of intrathecal dilaudid. I have had the MCS (failed) and I've had necrosis of the skin on both sides of my chest where all the other SCS and PNS units were placed. No skin left to make a pocket so they went with my hip. I also have spinal cord tumors which negated some of the ares for lead placement for the pump.