Posted by kevin crompton on 1/10/12

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In 12/08 I had a stimulater put in my upper back to help
releave pain in my upper and mid thoracic area of my
back,This was suppose to be about a 45 minute surgery the
doctor came out 3 and 1/2 hours later and told my wife that
they had run into some problems and was only able to get
the battery and the wires in and that i had lost 5 units of
blood. The doctor shedguled me to come back in to weeks to
get the paddle installed in my upper back,I went back into
surgery 14 days later, this time I was in the operating
room for 5 hr's,I never was told why I had lost so much
blood but the doctor said he never wanted to opperate on me
again,The doctor told me not to turn the stimulater on for
week's beause there was alot of blood pooling in the area
of the paddle that was insalled, So I waited 14 day's
before turnning the stimulater on, It did help some but not
in the area that was working in the o /r when they would
wake me up to tell them where it was working the best for
me, I went back to the doctor 2 weeks later and told him
that the stimulater was'nt giveing me the pain releif that
I was getting in the OR,I was then told that sometimes the
paddle can move a tinny bit and not give the releif that
the paitent was hopeing for.so then I spent alot of time
and money for nothing,So 2 year's I go to a different Dr
that tells me that if we put a differnt area in my back
that we could get a large amount of the pain under
controll, I asked this doctor if when he put this new
stimulater in if he could move the battery to a different
area of my body becuase sometimes when I would stand up it
would catch on chair's and pick them up off the floor and
it was quite painfull. So in april of 2010 I go into
surgery one more time for another medtronic's stimulater,
the wire's from the first stimulater we're cut away from
the battery and tucked away in my body and the battery
moved from the upper part of my left buttoch, this
stimulater worked for about 2-3 week's then only get the
feeling on the stimulater under my left under arm and my
right groin, had a medtronics rep come and see if he could
reprogram the stimulater NO LUCK, I had some exrays taken
and found that their are broken wire's allover in my back
and left side of my stomache, so much for all of this new
technouligy,I wish I would have been told that these wires
could break and stick in the muscle and make it cramp up so
bad that you cant even stand.I

medtronic stimulater, 1/10/12, by kevin crompton.

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