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- This news is really encouraging! I have chronic pain in several places, but mostly in my legs and feet. Nerve damage as a result of car accidents, work accidents, etc. I have fibromyalgia too. Some days, it''s really hard to deal with the pain that never seems to go away! PLEASE, PLEASE help me find a way to have this new therapy. Some days, I come really close to dispair!!
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- Does anyone know if they''re trying this at Darmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire? I have fibromyalgia and seasonal affective disorder and the fight has gone out of me. Thank you.
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- Please let me know some of the hospitals/research centers where the TDCS techniques are being used.
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- *Deac9, like you, I also suffer from RSD and have been for as many years as you. Since 1999 (so much for partying like it''s 1999, you know that Prince song lol). Like you, I''m interested in this too. Thank God hubby was watching the news on Ch.2 last night or else we probably would have never heard about this new treatment. I think it''s pretty interesting as well as, SAFE!! I was told a few years ago about using a stimulator, the one they implant into your body but after researching, watching a video on it as well as talking with people who had it done, I decided against it!! I''m not saying "not to do it" but for me, it seemed to risky. After seeing how this treatment is done, NO IMPLANTING, I got a bit excited I must admit. I hear you... NO ONE can really understand what life is like once you start to live with a chronic pain condition. Sure they can sympathize but truly understanding, they never will!! I was blessed to have married a man who, although he doesn''t fully understand what the pain feels like, he DOES understand how dibilitating (sp?) RSD is!! My family is also very understanding which helps. I say that only because I''ve met so many people who don''t have the understanding and support I have. I pray you''re one who does!!! ;) I hope and pray for this for EVERYONE who lives with chronic pain. Keep your chin up and continue to fight the fight even when you feel like you don''t have it in you!! You''ll be in my prayers. I hope and pray for a less painful day for you.. Peace
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- If you don''t want to wait for this technique to come to your local medical center, buy an electric eel and do it the way the Romans did. Plus, you can file a claim for the cost of the eel and aquarium with your health insurance company. Not that they would pay for this anyway...they''d just drop you for having a "pre-existing condition."
Why do they keep calling this new when it was being done 2000 years ago? Just because the electricity is coming from a machine instead of a fish? How does one come up with the idea of placing a fish on someones head to releive pain in the first place? - Reply to this comment
- I live in Asheville, NC and suffer chronic pain. Please advise where the Transcranial Direct Current Stimulationse trials are being held (or could be held). Could my Pain Management physician and his patients participate in these trials?
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- My mother suffers from spinal stenosis, arthritis, total hips replaced, total knees replaced and foot drop. I would be interested in knowing if this could possibly help her and where it is available in our area, trial or otherwise.
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- I have had Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD/CRPS) since 1999. After many unsuccessful nerve blocks, I am now on two medications, Lyrica & Cymbalta, that are successful in helping me sleep, but I still struggle with pain even though it is improved. Those who have not suffered with RSD & other chronic pain cannot realize what our lives are like; how we must forfeit so much just to cope & endure, all the while hoping for some relief. I am very interested in this procedure.
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- there is also a t.e.n.s. unit, info on webmd.com under chronic pain
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- i had a 2 level fusion of my lower spine a year ago and have been undergoing treatments for chronic pain ever since. last month i had a spinal chord stimulator implant done, it worked for 3 weeks and then the leads moved and the implant had to be removed. the implant took 85% of pain away but if leads move it can cause more pain. i am back on meds.
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