? About TAking Pain Meds After SCS

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Hi Guys

My Pain MGT doc alluded to the fact that a lot of his patients were able to

control thier pain totally with the SCS and did not have to have pain meds

afterwards.

While my pain is better yes and my nerve pain is a whole lot better I still need

to take my pain meds for the pain in my mid back and some low back stuff that is

still there. I do not have to take nearly as much medication and have been able

to cut down on a whole lot of the muscle relaxers. I am hoping to get off the

Topamax too.

My question is how many of you were able to get off medicaiton or did you just

cut back what you were taking after the SCS? I know of the ones I remember

talking about it before none of them were able to go off meds completely and

even the Medtronics rep told me the goal is to relieve 50% of the pain.

I would say mine is about 50-60% better but definitely not enough to go off all

pain meds.

Kim

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