Does it Even Work?
I can’t stop wondering if my nerve stimulator reduces my pain at all. In the first six months I had it, I had a three month period with no severe pain. Not one day, or even part of one day, was spent in bed because…
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The Big But
The stimulator isn’t causing me much pain anymore, but… The leads feel like they’ve moved significantly. I accidentally hit the bottom of my right breast and I could feel the left lead wiggle. When I bend my head forward more than about 20 degrees, I…
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Lead Migration 2006
Today I intended to post pictures of my freshly painted kitchen, but it looks the same as it did on Wednesday morning. Instead of painting, I’ve spent the last five days lying on the couch because my nerve stimulator leads (or wires) started to move….
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News From Annual Pain Meeting
The proceedings at the American Academy of Pain Medicine‘s annual meeting last week haven’t been reported on widely, but there has been news on a few topics of interest to chronic headache patients. Opioid Blood Levels in High Dose, Chronic Pain Patients Higher than expected…
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New Nerve Stimulation Category
Against my obsessive need for tight and neat parallel category titles, I’ve added the creatively named new category, Nerve Stimulation. It’s far more important for you all to easily access the information you need than it is for me to satisfy my internal copy editor.