Spinal cord stimulator

One year out is still very new injury. What options have you tried? Some here are medication free and of course this would be ideal, but I'm in favor taking what it takes to function. Have you been doing any P.T.?
Exercise is very important.

I have a Nevro high frequency spinal cord stimulator. I had it done at the Walton centre near Liverpool UK. Worked good when I hit on the right program but a wire failed after less than a year so had a new wire fitted and it's never been as good since. It does help though and glad I had it done. I have a charger plugged into the mains all day and each evening I unplug it and place the pad over the implant and it charges the battery up wirlesly thru my skin.

Wow thanks for that. My stimulator is obviously the mark 1 had no idea the mark 2 was out. It's probably smaller than mine it does feel like a small mobile phone that's implanted under my skin but apart from it getting a bit warm when changing I don't really feel it. I did just find out last week when I went to have my stimulator checked out because I was having a bad pain spike that it's now been passed to have an MRI scan if you have the implant. I have only been able to have CT scans since having the implant so knowing I can now have MRI if needed is a good thing. Thanks for the info on the mark 2.

Your welcome, Catheterboy. Yes, I noticed that a newer ‘generation’ had become approved, but I didn’t read carefully enough to realize that the newer version might be smaller. I did see that it is approved for MRI scans, which is amazing. I had an MRI long ago, before my SCI, and any metal at all posed a danger.