First, I am very sorry for all your pain,as I know the feeling. I have been fighting back pain for about 5 years now. From reading what you people have gone through, I pretty much have the same problem I now have the nevro scs. I have had two surgeries before the stimulator. The first gave me relief for 2 years. The second was a bit hard to hear the doctor tell me I had failed back surgery. I believe the scs is working for me about 50 percent of the time. I am still on pain meds. It is very confusing to figure out weather it is working (for me anyway) where I am getting relief from the meds or the scs. Anyway I am giving it at least a year. I have one suggestion I got from my PC. She suggested pool therapy, which I will try. I've had steroid shots and an ablation with zero results. I do some meditation also. Sometimes I feel like I am getting used to the pain,but I get 100 percent support from my spouse and that helps a lot. I also love being alive so I just deal. Thank you for listening. It helps to talk to people who understand. Someone said to just bug the people from Nevro and I feel the support you get after the implant is not very good. But I'm sorry to say that no one knows about the pain unless they have experienced it. They need someone like us to really know what questions to ask and they should be bugging us for information to help others.
I feel for you Linda as I have spinal stenosis but worse is nerve pain near my surgical stoma from bladder cancer. I have tried all the mess for nerve pain steroid shots nerve blocks radio frequency ablation. Boston scientific spinal c s cad oil and now pain doc mentioned necrosis stim which not sure of yet as Boston did Nado pain killers help some. But get nausea a headache then. Your post helps me so thanx