spinal stimulators

Hey John, where is your pain located? Is it low back, legs, or both. Is yours the newer three lead type? You may just need to have the Medtronics rep or whatever yours is take another look at it to adjust the programming. Good luck and have a Blessed Day!

John D, your doc may need to reposition your leads. My stimulator wasn't providing the necessary relief due to one of the leads slipping which required going back in to reposition it. As far as the drugs are concerned, for me any thing that provided enough pain relief also caused side effects. Lortab makes me hateful and also not near enough pain relief. Percocet worked better but not good enough. Pain patches which work for many left me feeling like my head was disconnected. Morphine to me offered the best overall relief. However, even though I felt like the drug had little effect on me mentally my family could tell the difference. Said I wasn't myself. This all lead me to the stimulator. Mine is still new so I have some adjustment to do to fine tune it. I am also taking endocet, gabapentin and a host of other meds daily. The gabbapentin helps with the nerve pain. Have a Blessed Day!

I am going for my first adjustment since surgery today. Right now my leg coverage is decent but back coverage is almost absent. I had one lead slip within the first two weeks. They wanted to put a surgical paddle lead in but doc wasn't available to do it so my doc repositioned it. I hope this works because I sure don't want to go back on ultra heavy narcotics.

Have a Blessed Day and a Wonderful CHRISTmas!!!