Posted by Fred on 2/24/11

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My Dorsal column stimulator caused (not cured) extreme
extreme pain. About 15 -- 20 years ago, doc recommended a
dorsal column stimulator for spasms, I never have any pain
and not many spasms either. Originally, I broke my neck in
1976 and became paralyzed from the neck down. regarding this
dorsal column stimulator, The doctor said, there's virtually
no chance of anything going wrong, he brought it one step
further and said, the chance of something going wrong is so
close to zero that you might as well say it's zero.

I asked, can I take it out later if I want? He said, sure,
no problem.

He put the dorsal column stimulator in and showed me how to
program it. The guy I shared a room with also came for a
dorsal column stimulator. He walked in for the procedure,
but realized he had just become paralyzed when he woke up
from the procedure. He also had more extreme pain than what
he came in with. After three days of watching him mostly
sleep from the large amounts of pain killer they were giving
him with IV. He would wake up long enough to pick up one of
his legs with his his arm and bang on it and say (why won't
you move legs) finally, I said to one of the nurses, you
better talk to the doctor, he can't move his legs. He walked
in for this procedure and now he is paralyzed. Less than one
hour later, they brought him in for emergency surgery. He
was still paralyzed.

After three months, I realized that my stimulator was
absolutely of no use to me. I went to have it removed and
was awake for the surgery. He took out the battery pack and
stimulator and cut the wire going from the little pads in my
dorsal column (backbones). He then pulled the pads to take
them out and said ut oh, it's stuck. At that point, I
started feeling pain. A lot of pain. He said it was stuck
from some kind of formation around the stimulator pad.

He left the stimulator pad in. For the next five years, I
barely slept the pain was so intense. More than a dentist
drilling a nerve without Novocain. The pain reduced somewhat
after five years but I still have very bad pain today in my
feet, my legs and other very bad phantom pain as a direct
result of this dorsal column stimulator. in fact, it's
starting to spread and get worse. as far as the doctor that
recommended this dorsal column stimulator. Well he is rich
and comfortably retired.

Let me know any recall information you may know about

spinal cord dorsal column stimulator, 2/24/11, by Fred.

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