Chronic Pain

Hi everyone:

I am new here. I am a 29 year old woman with severe chronic back and leg pain. It started when I was 16 and, after multiple surgeries and all sorts of medication adjustments, I ended up having a stimulator implanted on 1/16 (I also take methadone and morphine and have been on those for years as well as other meds).

Anyway, I had a difficult time deciding whether to have the permanent implant and I also had a hard time finding information from patients. So, after having my surgery, I decided to write a blog about my experience in hopes of helping other patients.

Also, if anyone has any questions about the process, please don't hesitate to ask.

The blog URL is posted in my signature!

Best,
Danimal

Hi Danimal,

Welcome to ChronicPainConnection! Thanks for sharing your blog with us. I read a few of your entries and they were delightful. You're right – it is hard to find other patients who can share their experiences with a stimulator.

I hope you'll be checking back here on our forum from time to time. Then when anyone has a question about neurostimulators, I'll send them here to connect with you.

Best,
Karen

Hi Karen,

Thanks for your response and thanks for letting me post information about my blog..I really appreciate it.

I will most definitely be back here..this looks like a really wonderful forum. I was really happy to find a thread about chronic pain and pregnancy.

Danimal

Hi Danimal

My name is Bjorn (yeah the "o" with two dots over the "o"), living in Sweden.

I am the husband to a wonderful woman - now 36, love of my life, who the past 4 years have been living on painkillers for an un-operable back injury -which has prevented her (well I usually use the term "us" as I have always felt as a part of a "pain team" even though I am not actually the one who has to live with it.... well I do.. kind of) from a lot of life´s experiences, including trying to get pregnant. (due to drugs)

Recently her physician told her that a neuro stimulator is an option and now I am trying to get as much information about this as possible.. There are loads of articles about this but very few from the actual patients' point of view.. using google I found myself in this forum, reading your posts and link to your blog.

I have given your URL to my wife and I want to thank you for enlightening us.... we need to know a lot more about this procedure, she is scheduled to a "trial" in June....

thanx...

//Bjorn