Re: Spinal Cord stimulator

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i can say this in both of your defenses..the trial worked on me
because they doubled my already strong pain meds...the stimulator
ruined my life.. read my stories..they are true statements and
nothing but fact...maybe the older ones were made different mine
is medtronic 2006 thanks

On 1/19/09, Maria wrote:
> I am sorry you had such a bad time with you implant and the
> Doctors. There really are some awful people out there who do
> treat patients like meat. I have been functionally disabled
> since I broke my L5 in 1993, and I also suffered nerve damage
> and spinal cord compression. I am in constant pain.
> I have used a stimulator since 1997 and it changed my life. I
> left it on 24/7. I had the new unit implanted in 2008 and it
> worked well for quite some time, but now I am having more pain
> and have learned of problems with corrosion of the leads, so I
> am now researching this as a possibility of the problems I am
> having.
> As far as your statement that the trial always works, that is
> catogorically NOT true. It sounds like you were poorly treated
> and I feel badly for you, but you do need to make sure your
> statments are true.
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>> On 2/18/08, Guy Bodemer wrote: I did not write this:GB
>>> On 2/02/08, Carolina wrote:
>>>> One day in January of 2007 I had an appointment with my
>>>> doctor for injections for lower back pain and pain in my
>>>> legs. I also got prescriptions for medication on these
>>>> visits. I walked to the room I was sent to and there were
>>>> all kinds of different displays advertising Advanced
>>>> Neuromodulation Systems Inc. (ANS) Spinal cord
>>>> stimulators. The doctor then proceeded to tell me how
>>>> wonderful these things were. He said I would be out of
>>>> most of my pain and would have a better quality of life if
>>>> I had the surgery to put it in. He said I would be able
>>>> to travel and visit my grandkids. I trusted this doctor
>>>> more than any doctor ever. I also liked him as a person.
>>>> I believed everything he said. Before I had the surgery
>>>> to implant the spinal cord stimulator he said that he had
>>>> to put a trial stimulator in and that it would have to be
>>>> done in his office. The trial stimulator was done in
>>>> February. The wires were connected to the stimulator
>>>> which was on the outside. I was very excited that it
>>>> worked so well. I found out later that the trial
>>>> stimulator always works and that is why patients get the
>>>> surgery to put the permanent one in thinking it will work
>>>> like the trial one did. An appointment was made by the
>>>> doctor's office for me to go to the doctors office to have
>>>> the permanent one put in. I had never met the doctor who
>>>> put in the permanent one. He was 6 hours late arriving
>>>> for the procedure. Everytime I said I wanted to leave the
>>>> nurse said "wait 15 more minutes he said he will be here"
>>>> He finally showed up and said he worked with my regular
>>>> doctor. Although I was very upset and in a lot of pain, I
>>>> thought because he worked with my doctor and I trusted my
>>>> doctor so much I would go ahead with the surger. What a
>>>> mistake that was. He was rough with me when I cried and
>>>> told him how bad he was hurting me he wouldn't even
>>>> answer. He stapled my back and nobody stopped him. I
>>>> prayed for god to let me die because the pain was so bad.
>>>> All I was to this doctor was money on the table. I
>>>> thought the spinal cord stimulator would work but even if
>>>> i turned it on and walked across the floor it would shock
>>>> me and I would have to turn it off. I could not move or
>>>> do anything with it turned on. The rep from ANS wanted me
>>>> to keep trying to use it. He said I had to keep trying to
>>>> get used to it. He even reprogrammed it but that just
>>>> made it worse. While laying down I turned it on low the
>>>> way he told me to and I injured my legs doing this. My
>>>> legs now shake all the time and tingle. I also have
>>>> trouble with my kidneys since having the surgery. I am in
>>>> the bathroom every 20 minutes. I will have to probably go
>>>> out of state to find a doctor who will even be willing to
>>>> look at it. I had the thing taken out and the pain that
>>>> it caused me is awful. My hip still hurts and thobs all
>>>> the time. I get very little sleep. I went through all of
>>>> this because of greedy doctors and a greedy corporation.
>>>> Nobody explained risks of this thing to me such as loss of
>>>> sensation, loss of limb function, stroke, cardiac arrest
>>>> or permanent damnage to other body organs even death. I
>>>> found this out after I had it removed! Can anyone please
>>>> respond who has had any similar experiences. Fed up with
>>>> doctors in SOUTH CAROLINA