Need Help please. Looking for Pros and Cons on Spinal Cord Stimulators also call SCS?
Had many long term problems with chronic hindmost pain due to a couple of previously failed back surgeries and my doctor just now suggested I look into a SCS (Spinal Cord Stimulator). Has anyone ever had one of these and can you tell me the pros or cons on having one of these devices surgically implanted? How economically is the device working and what are the draw backs? How was the actual procedure when it was first put surrounded by?
Answers: Hello. My mom had one implanted many years ago and had several problems with it... However, since that time I have witnessed, as a nurse, innumerous people find nouns from the new versions which are strategically placed in the OR by the anesthesiologist or stomach-ache management docs and assisted by the reps from the manufacturers of the products, who have have incredible results from this procedure... Ultimately, remember, every life deserves to have quality contained by it... Great luck to you!
~Olivia
Why yes, I can tell you.
The interstim device works by the electrical impulses generated by a small implantable device. The virtuous news is, you can try a temporary device in abundant cases before getting a permanent device. Ask about a trial implantation to see if you draw from relief from the device. The surgery is very minor. A small incision in the skin of your hindmost will hold the device, and a thin wire will be threaded into the spine area. It is a snatched recovery and about as safe of an operation as you can seize. The main risk is from the anesthesia, and of course there is also the possiblity of infection.
You will return with little "zapping" sensations, that should trick your nerves into numbing the pain.
Hopefully it would work for you, but no guarantees of course. It is an individual thing that works economically for some folks and not so well for others.
Best of luck to you.
Okie dokie...I had an SCS implanted 3/24/88. They had to turn the dang entry up so high, that on 9/25/90 I had to have the freestyle pack replaced! I was told the battery pack would last 5 years! When the hot battery pack was implanted, they assured me *that* one WOULD last 5 years. It last a few months SHORTER than the first one. I did not get another one implanted. the SCS afforded me approximately 15% pain relief. My L4/L5 disk ruptured and re-ruptured. I don't know where on earth your problem is, but that was mine. I have constant pain down my vanished sciatic nerve and still have it. My first partial laminectomy was surrounded by November of 1982 and I've lived in constant chronic pain ever since. For me, the SCS wasn't worth the surgeries...BUT, you have to weigh whether you muse it might be worth it for you or not. Have they made any improvements in these years since I had mine implanted? I don't personally know. Where is your misery? How long have you lived with your pain? How desperate are you? How will you be aware of if it doesn't work? Look...if it only affords you 15% pain relief, that's 15% smaller quantity than you had. You can look at it that way. But, there will come a daytime that you MAY say, it wasn't worth the surgery. I don't know. Good luck, and if you can, let me know what you decide. Okay? Linda K.
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Answers: Hello. My mom had one implanted many years ago and had several problems with it... However, since that time I have witnessed, as a nurse, innumerous people find nouns from the new versions which are strategically placed in the OR by the anesthesiologist or stomach-ache management docs and assisted by the reps from the manufacturers of the products, who have have incredible results from this procedure... Ultimately, remember, every life deserves to have quality contained by it... Great luck to you!
~Olivia
Why yes, I can tell you.
The interstim device works by the electrical impulses generated by a small implantable device. The virtuous news is, you can try a temporary device in abundant cases before getting a permanent device. Ask about a trial implantation to see if you draw from relief from the device. The surgery is very minor. A small incision in the skin of your hindmost will hold the device, and a thin wire will be threaded into the spine area. It is a snatched recovery and about as safe of an operation as you can seize. The main risk is from the anesthesia, and of course there is also the possiblity of infection.
You will return with little "zapping" sensations, that should trick your nerves into numbing the pain.
Hopefully it would work for you, but no guarantees of course. It is an individual thing that works economically for some folks and not so well for others.
Best of luck to you.
Okie dokie...I had an SCS implanted 3/24/88. They had to turn the dang entry up so high, that on 9/25/90 I had to have the freestyle pack replaced! I was told the battery pack would last 5 years! When the hot battery pack was implanted, they assured me *that* one WOULD last 5 years. It last a few months SHORTER than the first one. I did not get another one implanted. the SCS afforded me approximately 15% pain relief. My L4/L5 disk ruptured and re-ruptured. I don't know where on earth your problem is, but that was mine. I have constant pain down my vanished sciatic nerve and still have it. My first partial laminectomy was surrounded by November of 1982 and I've lived in constant chronic pain ever since. For me, the SCS wasn't worth the surgeries...BUT, you have to weigh whether you muse it might be worth it for you or not. Have they made any improvements in these years since I had mine implanted? I don't personally know. Where is your misery? How long have you lived with your pain? How desperate are you? How will you be aware of if it doesn't work? Look...if it only affords you 15% pain relief, that's 15% smaller quantity than you had. You can look at it that way. But, there will come a daytime that you MAY say, it wasn't worth the surgery. I don't know. Good luck, and if you can, let me know what you decide. Okay? Linda K.
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