Kris' Story

Nearly five years after getting her neurostimulator, Kris says that all her pain is under control. That’s quite a change from the period before she had her device, when she tried treatment after treatment without getting relief. “I felt about 90 years old with all the pain medication I was taking,” she recalls.

Kris’ pain started when she aggravated a back condition while loading gardening rocks into her truck. Still in her 30s then and accustomed to a lifestyle that included playing softball and officiating basketball games, she found herself spending more time on her couch than at sporting events. And despite the many medications she used, not to mention the injections and surgery she tried later, Kris kept having sharp, piercing pain in her back and leg.

She was so used to ineffective treatments that by the time a pain specialist told her about neurostimulation, she doubted it would help. “The meds weren’t working; the surgery didn’t work,” she says. “I was at the point where I didn’t expect anything to work.” Yet within minutes of trying stimulation for the first time, she felt relief and soon decided to have the neurostimulator fully implanted.

Since getting her stimulator, Kris has found it much easier to perform her job as a dog groomer. “I couldn’t walk big dogs,” she remembers, “And bathing them was horrible.” She is doing many of the things she did before, except taking medications, which she no longer needs. And while she knows that others may not get the same results from stimulation as she did, she encourages them to try the therapy.

“It’s worth trying the temporary evaluation,” she says simply. “You may get your life back.”

*The above testimonial is the experience of this individual only. It is an individual result and we do not claim that it is representative of the experience that all or most patients achieve and is not indicative of future performance or success.

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