Guest guest Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 I've gone through the trial and it totally made my brain think the pain was not there when I put the device on high. I also got a residual effect for 2-3 hours after turning the device off and experiencing no pain. But my doctor says this " residual effect " may go away and I will only experience pain relief when I have the device on. My concern is when it's on high, it's a huge distraction. But people say I will get use to it and ignore the vibration up and down both my legs. My doctor is not sure I'm the best candidate because of these issues. But anything that has a chance of ridding my body of opiates and experiencing no pain is worth the gamble. Anyone else have this device for the feet? It's actually the bottoms of my feet that are in great pain. Four years now I've had this issue. No one knows why. I have a theory that it was caused by some medication they used when giving me a spinal block and sacroiliac injections. Pain went from my back down my legs and eventually to my feet. For years they said I had plantar faciitus, but this is either a wrong diagnosis or an incomplete one. The nerve conduction test showed I had Neuropathy in both my feet. It's been an interesting medical background 1992 Lyme disease and depression and anxiety, never had depression before. This was an experience because I was in the hospital for depression when they ran a Western Blot Test and found I had Lyme disease. I was so bad that I literally could not sleep or even sit down I was so anxious. 1994 IGA Nephropathy A kidney biopsy confirmed the diagnosis. Was this tied to the Lyme disease, many different opinions on that question? Doctor at Washington Hospital Center prescribes 2x6grams of fish oil a day because of an early study that showed this might help. It was later refuted however my doctor kept me on it for my whole life because he felt it might help some IGA Nephropathy patients. God Bless himŠ 2006 Back problems leading to joint injections leading to my foot pain. Joint injections were necessary because a kidney patient is not allowed anything but Tylenol OTC. 2006 Foot pain, plantar fasciitis diagnosis 2010 Neuropathy diagnosis at s Hopkins. Doctor says I'm the only patient he has ever seen with IGA Nephropathy for 16 years and not losing a kidney. What a blessing. 2010 Trial with Spinal Cord Stimulator That's my story. I am on Lyrica, Ultram, Oxycodone for pain. It is no longer working for me. I appreciated the comment about Oxycodone in an earlier post. If I don't get the stimulator I will definitely change my meds. I have used up all 1100 hours of leave in 2009 and 2010. I no longer have any leave, But my work has been so supportive, I probably should have asked to change my meeds when the pain was too much for me to work. But I think depression and not thinking clearly caused me to think there was nothing better that could be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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