Re: additional injuries caused by spinal cord stimulator

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Hi, i had a ans stimulator and after 5 surgeries, the fifth
being the removal. I have had severe back pain and leg pain and
numbness in left foot. My pain management doctor has blamed crps
i have also got a blood clot in stomach that has been
there,since July 2012.
I have had an mri done and this is the results.
Haemangioma in T6.
Degenrative endplate change type 2 anterior and inferior T9 and
type 1 T10
Mild wedging of T8and T9 25% anterior height loss T9
Disc bulge touching spinal cord.
And constant burning down left leg and also sometimes breathing
pain in lower rib cage.

> On 4/07/11, Mercedes wrote:
>> my name is Mercedes and I am here with my friend wendy. We
>> both had medtronics spinal cord stimuators implanted and we
>> have both endured years of pain caused by the impantation
>> of the medtronics spinal cord stimulator. Since the initial
>> impant of the stimulator we have both endured many
>> revisions because of the wires breaking and causing
>> additional pain. We were both told by the doctors that the
>> implant of this device that we were crazy and making up all
>> the pain issues we were having. After Mercedes had the
>> implant removed in 2005 I have had 6 more back surgeries
>> including 2 titanium rods and 35 screws that were not an
>> issue before the spinal cord stimulator was implanted.
>> Wendy had 6 revisions within 2 years because of the spinal
>> cord wires breaking. The doctor kept telling her it was
>> normal but I was having swelling the size of a softball. I
>> also had blood collecting in my stomach and had to go 3
>> times a week to have it drawn out and was again told it was
>> normal. I trusted the doctor and finally saw another doctor
>> that said it was not normal. I had demanded every time I
>> had a revision for it to be removed but the doctor refused.
>> Finally after seeing another doctor he finally removed
>> after 3 years of being told I was crazy and not having the
>> pain I was saying I was having. I had mine removed February
>> 18, 2011 finally. Since then I am having more pain and
>> after a mri found out I have spinal stenosis and facet
>> joint spurring caused by all the revisions of the spinal
>> cord stimulator. Mercedes and I are looking for a lawyer in
>> Louisville Kentucky or somewhere close that knows of anyone
>> else that has had the same problem. We are also willing to
>> drive to see a lawyer to join any class action lawsuits
>> against medtronics spinal cord stimulators. Medtronics need
>> to be accountable for the pain they are causing all the
>> peope that have had the medtronics spinal cord stimulator
>> implanted. Please email us back with any information as we
>> are both suffering everyday with pain that was not there
>> before the implantation and revisions of this horrid
>> machine that did not help either one of us. Instead it
>> caused us more pain and it is making it hard to live a
>> normal life;
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> I too had an implant for pelvic pain and found out after
surgery that I really
> could not move started to exp fevers this pain was going down
my leg which
> before this implant I'd never exp sciatica did not know what
it was. So at first I
> thought It was just the recuperating process after surgery.
As I told the dr and
> would take aspirin and tylenol to lower the fever when my
fever would go up too
> 101 even 102 even on tylenol and aspirin not including all the
pain meds I was
> already on. Called dr but did not do any blood work or pay
much mind. After a
> week more with a fever he put me on antibiotics and then for
two mths loaded
> them on. I was still having horrible back pain and sciatica
could not walk from
> the pain and the leads migrating it was awful so now I'm
fighting two pains what
> a nightmare. Then to find out I developed CDF and still the
pain in