XPost: sci.electronics.design, alt.home.repair   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In sci.electronics.repair, on Sun, 26 Jan 2025 12:42:01 -0500, micky   
    wrote:   
      
   I told about having the wires from a trial of a spinal cord stimulator   
   removed, followed by the worst pain I'd ever had, tapering off over an   
   hour, paralysis from the waist down for 3 hours, and them urinary   
   incontinence which when I posted had lasted for weeks and I feared would   
   last the rest of my life.   
      
   >>Glad to you you back.  Hope you have a good resolution to your problem.   
   >   
   >Thank you.   
      
   Thank you again, and a follow-up.   
      
   The pain doctor I don't like or trust anymore, because of his lack of   
   sympathy and the ongoing feeling that he made some error that caused all   
   this.  He may be worried that saying something nice would make him   
   liable, but Maryland like most states has an "apology law" that prevents   
   that. Apologies aren't even admissible in court (unless you say, "I'm   
   sorry I gave you 3 times the normal dose.")   
      
   The spine surgeon told me the hematoma on my spinal cord would take 6 to   
   8 weeks to be absorbed. It was iirc 7 inches long and about a half inch   
   wide at the widest and went through 5 vertebrae, t-7 to t-11.   
      
   The urologist told me that normally urinary incontinence caused by a   
   hematoma on the spinal cord resolves itself positively, but it can take   
   3 months.   
      
   Last Friday was 6 weeks and 2 days and the MRI that day showed the   
   hematoma was completely gone.  Five days later, two days ago, exactly 7   
   weeks, Wednesday at noon was the start of a two and a half day period up   
   to right now where I seem to be normal again.  So if nothing goes wrong,   
   I'm back to normal. Hooray!!! Back still hurts like before but no more   
   diapers.   
      
   Of course now, if I have to pee in the middle of the night, I'll have to   
   wake up and get up to do it, instead of just sleeping through it.   
      
   Spine surgeon says he's had 1000 patients over the last 10 years who had   
   spinal cord stimulators tested or both tested and then installed under   
   the skin.  70% benefit from the trial, unlike me, and go ahead with the   
   full install.   And he's never had a patient with the bad effects I had,   
      
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