Nervous...scared...anxious...

greymouser7 said
Just please be careful with the new you Doug. You have confidence in yourself like my dad, aunt, doctors, & lawyers.-They make the worse patients because when they start feeling better, they figure they are better off than all of the physicians warnings. Aunt had had artificial knee surgery, and started running again against doctors orders because she felt so good, same with dad with his heart surgery-he was risking people’s lives out driving before he was supposed to even move around a bunch.

I am afraid that you could go back a few steps if and when this alleviates most of your pain if you over exert yourself afterwards.

Best wishes & GOD bless you and your family. How has the wife been doing? I know she had some struggles.

Oddly enough the entire staff at the docs office, Sasha, the Medtronics rep and Nick (?) the rep from the other company advised me of the same thing. Sasha told me that she has had dozens of folks not do real well with the trial for the simple fact that the day after the trail unit is put in, the patient feels like they are 18 years old again and go out and do all sorts of things they should not. Ernestina is watching me like a hawk. Every time she hears my computer chair move she sticks her head out of her little sewing area to check on me. I went to get dressed, she followed me into the closet and told me to sit my *** down, that she would help with my pants and shoes.
I am well aware that this device is nothing more than a way to manage my pain. That even though I may not "feel" anything the damage is still there. We have a plan, of sorts. If I do well with the stimulator trial I am going to my damnedest to get off the narcotics....even if it means I have to endure a fair amount of pain. The reason I want to get off of the oral meds is so that I can get a pain med pump put in. In speaking with the surgeon that refused to cut on me because he knew it would not go well he told me that the pain pump is a far better way to manage the pain than oral meds...he said for one the medication is injected into the area where the pain is being generated so I will not be in the narcotic induced fog I am in. He also said that the dosage is micro-grams instead of milligrams.