I'm tired of having to take painkillers daily just to get through. When I was at the pain specialist this week, he had a brochure about SCS. It's a procedure where they actually attach leads to your spinal cord and install a "power pack" under the skin. It acts much like a pace maker in that it stimulates the nerves over-riding the pain. It basically fakes out the pain receptors before the pain signal hits the brain. They've been doing this for 30 years now with success.
Just wondering if anyone has looked into this or if they've had the procedure done. It claims if it's successful for you it can reduce the pain by 50-90%. It lets you get back to a more normal life. The downsides (if you can call that) are that you will set off the airport metal detectors (but you have a card identifing what you have), anti-theft readers (like at Walmart and other stores) might irritate you by increasing the pulse briefly, you have to have the batteries replaced every 5-10 years requiring day surgery again.
Any body heard of it? Had it done? I'm seriously considering it.........
Cost wise......Doc said if you continue on opiads, you eventually increase your dosage because you get immune to the results. Once you hit the oxycotin or stronger, you're looking at $600/month costs. It just keeps going. BUT with this thing, after 4 years you start actually saving money. Just not having to have the "help" from the little pills would be worth it for me.............
Just wondering if anyone has looked into this or if they've had the procedure done. It claims if it's successful for you it can reduce the pain by 50-90%. It lets you get back to a more normal life. The downsides (if you can call that) are that you will set off the airport metal detectors (but you have a card identifing what you have), anti-theft readers (like at Walmart and other stores) might irritate you by increasing the pulse briefly, you have to have the batteries replaced every 5-10 years requiring day surgery again.
Any body heard of it? Had it done? I'm seriously considering it.........
Cost wise......Doc said if you continue on opiads, you eventually increase your dosage because you get immune to the results. Once you hit the oxycotin or stronger, you're looking at $600/month costs. It just keeps going. BUT with this thing, after 4 years you start actually saving money. Just not having to have the "help" from the little pills would be worth it for me.............
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