I had an appointment with the specialist who implants Neuro stimulators today and pending an injection of a steroid into the nerve (???) and a psych eval and insurance approval he will do it? Anyone have this shot? Anyone know if it is critical to have an experienced Neurosurgeon do this like when having MVD done, etc? He also confirmed that the severe reaction I just had to Trileptal was Stevens Johnson ( sp). Any thoughts?
Responding to your question before I could get my stim implanted and insurance approval I had to have the steroid shot to my nerve mine is in the V3 area, this is only my experience but once I had the shot it made my pain extremely worse didn’t think it was possible to get into worse pain than I was, but it is usually a requirement before stim implant to gain Insurance approval, when I was on trileptal it was a time when I was the closest to ending it all… On the bright side my stim has been in since Dec 2011 and I am working again full timeand having a normal life with some pain but livable pain feel free to friend me, I have pictures of my stim surgery posted also what kind of stim does your Neuro implant-this is important to know…