Guest guest Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 Springer wrote to Becky: > From a fellow stimulator patient, GOOD LUCK! > , How are you doing and when was yours implanted. Did your medication use go down? I would like to know. Bennie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 , Ok please tell me that my next 24 hours with the trial will be better. The wires going into my head are awful and it is hard to get comfortable. I can not lay down to sleep without pressure on the wires. It seems like I have replaced one pain for another. Becky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 , Mine is a Medtronic brand, too. I am assuming with foot pain that your leads were placed in your back and not your head as mine are. At least I feel like I am trying to look at other options and maybe the week will get better. Right now I would say no thanks; just keep me on my pain meds. I'll be interested in how every one else doing the trial comes out. Thanks for your story. Becky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 I just had my trial a couple of weeks ago and it DOES get better after a couple of day. I had a HECK of a time the first 24 hours.it HURT, my back hurt and went into spasm, I couldn't lay anywhere it didn't bug me. The second day was better and the third was better still. I had some trouble with the leads moving, because my skin doesn't hold tape well, but it DOES get better. I was told the reason they give you a week trial is because the first few days you're recovering from the implantation. If you need to talk, please email me at myshadowridge@... I will help anyway I can, since I just went through this. I was really lucky that my Medtronic's representative gave me his cell number and encouraged me to call if I had ANY questions or concerns..and I did call him a time or two. Though I wasn't given any special programs, just told to go about my daily activities and turn it off periodically to see if it was helping. The experience of running it a while and then turning it off was REALLY interesting.. For that 15 seconds or so, there was NO pain for me (after the first 72 hours or so). Though it almost hurt (not quite hurt, but the sensation was odd) turning it both on and off. Marta From: chronic_pain [mailto:chronic_pain ] On Behalf Of heldings@... Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 10:40 PM To: chronic_pain Subject: Re: spinal stimulator/ , Ok please tell me that my next 24 hours with the trial will be better. The wires going into my head are awful and it is hard to get comfortable. I can not lay down to sleep without pressure on the wires. It seems like I have replaced one pain for another. Becky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 Hi Bennie, I have one too, had it implanted almost 2 years ago (august 5th) and honestly, my medication usage went way down. I was on a 100mcg fentanyl patch as well as 25mg morphine break through, then lyrica and muscle relaxers. I felt like a zombie 99% of the time. Now, Lyrica is the only one I'm on, aside from some tylenol and excedrin back and body. Good luck! If you have any questions, ask away. --- \Bennie wrote: > > Springer wrote to Becky: > > > From a fellow stimulator patient, GOOD LUCK! > > > > , > > How are you doing and when was yours implanted. Did your medication use go down? I would like to know. > > Bennie > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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