Re: Nerve Stimulation Device

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Hi ronpat,

What does a nerve stimulation device do? Where does it get implanted at?

Love,

Becky/SD

>ronpat wrote:

Next Monday 21st I go for my Psychology review,then its a couple weeks

till i get my Nerve stimulation device inplanted,in my spine.

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I had to endure the same exact Psychiatric exam prior to the approval

of the installation of my Spinal Cord Stimulator. Actually, I felt it

was a waste of my time and my Insurance Company's money. The cost for

my pre-stimulator psych eval was $400.00. Praise the Lord for

Insurance. I had the exam in January of 2007 and my Stimulator was

implanted in February.

Unfortunately, I had several complications with mine and had to have

5 total surgeries. My temporary trial, the permanent implant, an

adjustment, a pulling back of one of my leads that had migrated over

to a nerve root (OUCH), and then the final re-implantation. I don't

blame anyone, especially my physician, because I am just one of those

people that if something should only take once, it takes two or three

times for me to have success.

Once the device was in place, programmed and working good, I only got

about a 50% decrease in pain. We proceded with the implantation of

the permanent stimulator only because, for some unknown reason, I got

about an 80% decrease in pain. My physician compared all of my films

and CT Scams from before and after and the wires all lined up

perfectly with the temporary placement, but like I said, I am one of

those people that if it can go wrong, it will. My doctor has a

nickname for me. He calls me " Challenge " . I have had about 25 pain

management procedures, several of them two or three times, and they

either don't work or only work for a very limited time.

I am now about to undergo another extensive surgery. This time I am

going to have my left Ilioinguinal Nerve either severed or disected,

as that appears to be the source of my pain. I plan on keeping my

stimulator until long after this surgery to insure that the pain is

definetly gone before I have it removed, if ever.

Ok, I'm finished posting my novel. Somehow I got on a roll after

discussing my stimulator. Sorry.

tmclarkrn

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>ron Pat wrote:

> I had to do the pysch thing also, And I'm still On > blue cross. My PM doctor

said he wanted to get this done fast.