Re: additional injuries caused by spinal cord stimulator

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I don't trust medtronics. I've had my scs for 2 years now. I
was orginally supposed to have a different manufacturer scs.
When I had my trial, I was givin medronics and then perm one
was implanted shortly after. WHen I asked my pain doc why he
wouldn't give me an answer. I then found out the truth. My
docter was a paid speaker for them, travels around talking
about how great their product is, and how easy the procedure
is. I've since see other pain docs who agree I was givin too
bulky of a unit, and its placed poorly.As long as companies
like medtronics can keep paying off docs and not have they're
products properly tested, than patients like me will be worse
off. Medtronics,their paid docs, and insurance companies all
get rich, while disabled guinea pigs like me get hacked up and
made worse. On 6/16/11, A Larson wrote:
> 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;
>
> They Have to be stopped! My back was treatable before the
implant, but was
> used "off label" and now I am in constant pain! I can't
function more than a few
> hours a day and I don't want more pain meds. They have
ruined my life... I am in
> my 50s and have to hope I don't live a long life with this
excruciating pain
> caused by the implant BURNING the soft tissue of my thoracic
back. This product
> should be recalled and never used again!!