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[Guest guest]

Nan,

I am so sorry to hear of your pain. If you need someone to chat with or just

vent, you can email me at purplebutterfly1@...! What and where was your

pain prior to the implant? I have been told that the stimulator does hardly

anything for back pain. That is more successful for nerve pain. I have nerve

damage from my first surgery (I have had two so far), I am scheduled to be my

trial in May. I have spoken to a lot of people that have had good success with

the stimulator. Maybe you need to discuss this in detail with the rep. From

what I understand, don't give up yet. Have it reprogrammed and see what

happens.

I guess I am confused when people talk about contacting the Medtronic rep... are

we given a representatives name to call and we deal with them instead of the

surgeon? Can someone clear my confusion?

Nan, keep your chin up.

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Hi all

Here I am a week and a half out from the stimulator implant and I'm

actually having way worse back pain then before the surgery (this

isn't inscisional pain). I know that I have to talk to the medtronic

rep to get it reprogrammed but I really feel that this thing is doing

absolutely nothing,and maybe even worse.

Talking to the surgeon is useless, he says it will all be better once

its reprogramed. But I remember in the hospital the medtronic rep

saying that the area of the back that I had pain in was hard to

cover. I never had much of a trial and I'm just getting more upset

with every passing hour.

Any suggestions? Could this actually come down to having it taken

out? I mean I really can't believe how incredible the pain is.

thanks for listening and reading

Nan

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I'm still new to the group and am not the best in

keeping up...

I had aqua therapy Tuesday night for the first time.

I was hurting a bit while doing this and asked the

therapist about this. The next morning I woke up and

felt wonderful! No pain! Pain didn't start until

after I did a couple of errands around town and was

headed in to work. But even then it wasn't bad. That

was Wednesday morning. Thursday morning and this

morning I've woken up basically screaming and crying

with pain from head to foot. I feel like it is hard

to move and every muscle hurts. An hour after I take

my morning meds I'm usually okay but still feeling

achy and like I really can't do anything any more. Is

this from the aqua therapy I had 3 days ago? Is it

from my meds I'm taking for pain? Right now I'm up to

1200 mg neurontin, 4 percocets and 200 mg provigil (I

know this doesn't have anything to do with pain but it

seems to help the pain settle down). In addition, I

know I am depressed and I take 60 mg of cymbalta for

that. Is this just a reaction that I'm having because

both DH and DS are not home? I'm used to DH not being

home but this is the first time DS (16 yo) been away

when he's not with his relatives. I'm confused. I

don't know what to do. I feel like I have to back out

of all my commitments and I just can't do anything any

more. Suggestions? I'm desparate.

Thanks,

Marietta