Re: Medtronic Spinal Cord Stimulator

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On 6/29/09, cj wrote:
> On 6/12/09, kathy wrote:
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>> you need to get that out andseek a lwayer its the same thing that
>> happen to me tha same thing email me and i will tell you how to seek
>> help from this i am suing them.... that all i am saying...
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>> On 5/27/09, nancy wrote:
>>> On 3/30/09, nancy morrison wrote:
>>>> 3/30/
>>>> Stefanie,
>>>> I was never informed that they were having any trouble with
>>>> the leads in the scs unit. I just got out of the hospital
>>>> after having the leads replaced. They did have a medtronic rep
>>>> there because they did the initial surgery 2 times before they
>>>> had it in right. The first time it was in backwards.So it was
>>>> covering the wrong leg. This time they had me awake for it to
>>>> ask me questions while they were programing it. I did mention
>>>> to them the first time that my ribs felt like they were broken
>>>> and did anyone else feel this way. I even had a list of
>>>> questions that he took and crinked up saying that he will
>>>> answer all my questions later.
>>>>
>>>> On 3/24/09, Stefanie wrote:
>>>>> On 3/16/09, June wrote:
>>>>>> I am scheduled to have the implant the end of March. My
>>>>>> girlfriend put me onto this chatboard and after reading
>>>>>> some of the things that can & do go wrong I'm thinking of
>>>>>> cancelling the surgery....QUESTION: is there any Good news
>>>>>> about this unit! I could really use some help right about
>>>>>> now!
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>>>>> On 3/23/09 ;
>>>>> This is my first time on any site about the scs.
>>>>> I had my scs implanted in Jan 08, and things seemed fine at
>>>>> first. I never really got the pain relief that I was hoping
>>>>> for. It helped about 50&37; for the pain in my legs but
>>>> actually
>>>>> made my back pain worse and caused me to have pain in areas
>>>> of
>>>>> my back which I had never had before. With in weeks the
>>>>> battery pack (which was implanted in the upper right buttocks
>>>>> area) had moved and then was constantly pushing against my
>>>>> skin from inside out. I was in pain, I could not sit, and
>>>> the
>>>>> area was black & blue all the time. After much complaining I
>>>>> was told that I must have popped stitches and that was why
>>>> the
>>>>> battery pack was protruding out so far. I was offered to have
>>>>> the battery taken out and replaced with a smaller & newer
>>>>> battery unit in March 09. After that surgery (on March 17) I
>>>>> was received a phone call from my doctor a day later and told
>>>>> I had an infection (they did not know what kind) but they had
>>>>> scraped the area out on 3/17 and I was put on antibiotics.
>>>> My
>>>>> incision site continued to spread the redness out further, so
>>>>> I was told to go to the ER on March 21st, I was admitted and
>>>>> was informed of two options. One was they would remove the
>>>>> battery pack, scrap the site again, put in a drain, they
>>>>> would disconnect the lead wires and tuck then up out of place
>>>>> (so the infection would not spread up the wires) and then in
>>>>> 6-8 weeks I could have another battery pack implanted.
>>>> Second
>>>>> option was to remove the scs completely. I chose to have the
>>>>> scs removed completely that day.
>>>>> It has only been two days since the scs was removed. The
>>>>> doctors office called and informed me that the infection I
>>>>> have is a Staph infection.
>>>>> I have to stay on antibiotics for 3 more weeks and have a
>>>>> follow up appointment with my doctor on April 4th. At that
>>>>> time they will determine if I will need any additional
>>>> surgery
>>>>> or what the next steps will be.
>>> My husband last month had his stimulator taken out because of a
>>> very bad staph infection. He has to have pic line antibiotics and
>>> has actually been recieving those for 5 weeks. This was not
>>> something we were informed about, and he also had problems with
>>> the battery pack. His was doing the same thing it had slipped out
>>> of the pocket and was pressing against the stitches.His was
>>> placed in the same area. Now since the stimulators removal and
>>> the leads he is having back problems that he did not have before
>>> ans leg weakness that he did not suffer from before. Hindsight is
>>> 20/20 and if we had one inkling this would happen he would not
>>> have had this procedure done. It solved nothing but created more
>>> problems.