Okay see if I can confuse everyone with this Topic, My Wife, had every bad back trouble about December 021, after several visits to different specialists, One surgeon after looking @ the MRI, said he maybe able to place a plate in there to ease the presser on the syatic nerve, but after several tests, he decided that he bone dencitee was not strong enough to hold the screws, so another specialist, suggested that she try a Nevro implant, were they place wires into the nerves, so she can control the pain with a remote control, so after they place the wires into place, they left it for two weeks, then they placed the wires under the skin including a battery, now she has a belt with velcrove on it, & a pocket to place this pad looking thing over her battery, with wires going to another battery that charges the battery under the skin once every two days, then you carge the portable battery just like we do with our portable phone, only early days so far, but she is taking several steps without her walker, & getting up & down from the toilet without screaming with contant pain, like she was before the implant, the remote has 6 settings with 8 modes on each setting, So google Nevro for any info, cheers Don.
I was heading that way myself but things have changed.
They also wanted to implant the Baclofen pump under the skin in my belly. It's just a pump to give me micrograms of meds instead of milligrams of oral meds
Donnyboat, I can probably relate to that pain and I hope she gets much, much better! It's agonizing and exhausting. Sleep is almost as valuable as food for her.
Bone spurs here. I developed a "drop foot" and the pain was 24/7 from my hip to my ankle. I flopped that foot around for a month. Lost most of the feeling in my toes and, strangely enough, three fingers in each hand are still tingly. Nerve damage is weird stuff. For me, therapy corrected the drop foot and relieved the constant pain. It was some of the hardest and most awkward work I've ever done. Surgery or injections were 50/50 hit-or-miss options and the technology you guys have now wasn't available.
And Keith! You keep fighting, Man! (remember this?: wax on-wax off) ;)
Prayers goin' up for all of you!
Interesting. I could use one for my Triceps-shoulder area now. Can't even push down on a seatbelt buckle, without hollering-out in pain. Can't figure-out what I did to it...
Quote from: Gfish on March 08, 2023, 02:38:20 AMInteresting. I could use one for my Triceps-shoulder area now. Can't even push down on a seatbelt buckle, without hollering-out in pain. Can't figure-out what I did to it...
Google Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and Double Crush Syndrome. I believe mine came from a seatbelt pretensioner when we got hit by a stray truck tyre, which set all the balloons off. I am chasing what we suspect is a crush to the Brachial Plexus. The bundle has nerves that bunch, branch, divide, backfeed and go off in all sorts of directions around the arms and shoulder. I have been trying to trace out the nerves for days now; whoever designed us was not an engineer! I am used to tracing wires from source to termination, this nerve wiring is a head f$#&! :o
Thanks for all your replies men, & keith it is allways a pleasure for you to be responding to my posts after what you have been throu, keep fighting on man, I still have my money on you & know one is beting against you. yes I do know the pain she has had, as I pinched a nerve once, I could swear that I was not moving but it would gab me, the pain was excruciating, lucky my back came good, over time, but I do take care of how I stand when picking up things, & not reaching out to far in front of me, when bending. Yes greg, I had a tractor tyre blow up on me & smash my left shoulder, & broke 3 or 4 ribs, so I know, what your puting up with, I still cant lift my arm much above my head, My right arm is carrying my, left side & the shoulder joint is starting to get uncomfortable as well, but we keep gonig, cheers Don.
Baitcasting and setting hooks is good therapy. ;)
We do quite a bit of damage to our bodies when we're young. If I fell off a bicycle today, I'd be down for a week. Rough surf beats the tar out of me these days. I have a Wade Aid belt that helps stabilize all that but still, a day in that water is like non-stop disco dancing. Yes, I did that stuff back in the day...in cowboy boots.