Well, if it wouldn’t be a spectacularly huge mistake, I’d do my own binky! LOL I just thought I’d share cause I have posted about it in the past.
For a quick recap – I’ve been dealing with chronic back pain for a few years now. I had decompression lumbar spine surgery in 2010 which didn’t do anything for my pain or nerve symptoms. This past spring I went to see a new pain specialist. He diagnosed me with neuropathy (which no other doctors have) and am now doing a trial for a nerve stimulator. What that does is send an electric pulse to my brain which turns it into a tingling sensation in my back and legs. This basically masks or interrupts the pain signals from my damaged nerves.
I am on day 3 of the trial which is all external except for the leads which were placed in the epidural space of my spine. The procedure site was really sore up until today. It’s still there but has calmed down significantly. So much so that I can tell for sure now that the stimulator is working on my “normal” back pain and nerve symptoms. I still had to take my unisom to sleep last night but I left the stimulator on all night and I woke up with almost no normal back pain. The procedure site is still sore at times. I go back on Tuesday to have the components removed and will then have to wait however long for insurance to approve the permanent one which will all my internal. Here is a site if anyone is interested. Explains it better. LOL
http://www.tamethepain.com/
So I feel like doing a binky because for the first time in years, when I woke up, I actually felt good enough and motivated to do SOME THING. Cleaning, walking, anything. I’m not. My butt is once again firmly planted on the couch. LOL But I’m feeling weepy cause I didn’t really think I would ever feel better again.
Lolli is doing great! With being at my dad’s and finally getting free time to run around the finished basement, she has lost weight. But she knows something’s up with me. It’s either the smell from the tape and equipment or she’s sensing the electric pulse cause she will not have anything to do with me. When she was out last night and i was on the floor, she got curious and got about a foot away with her nose going and ears all perked. But then she hopped off.
(I am having a hard time typing what is in my brain. I know what I want to say but it doesn’t always come out right. So if something doesn’t make sense or I used a wrong word, that’s why. LOL)
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