Re: Medtronic Spinal Cord Stimulator

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On 6/12/09, kathy wrote:
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> 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.
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>>> 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.