Spinal Stimulator

  Overnight started ok.  After I took 11:00am meds and was back in bed left side pain flared up to the point where there was no way I was going to get any sleep so I got up.  It got better at 2pm and had a pretty good day. But evening pain came on early at 8:30pm, left side. So I sit with a vibrating massager on my leg for hours like I do most evenings. 

  Overnight was ok. It was a very active, very physical day. And on those days it's easy to push past pain that otherwise would irritate you if you were just reading a book. So I'm not sure what was going on but I did notice some medium left pain several times throughout the day. Evening pain started at 10:30 on the right and was average until 1am. Then it got worse until tapering off at 4:30am. I'm not seeing anything I would call an improvement so far.   

 Overnight pain was ok to start. After I took 11am meds and was back in bed left pain came on strong and there was no chance I could go back to sleep so I got up. It continued until about pm when it settled down some. Then flared back up on right and left at 9pm until 3am.  I went up a light and went to bed. Pain levels do not seem to be improved at all.

  Overnight was OK. Got woke up several time by my carpal tunnel pain. Had mild pain during the day.  About midnight pain flared up first on the right side and then at about 2am it switched to the left.  No improvement. 

  Overnight pain was a little worse that it had been recently. During the day, at times it was much worse. In the evening it seemed about the same as recent. I went up one light at about 3am.

  Overnight was pretty good. Was able to sleep well. During the day pain levels were pretty good but about 10pm things ramped up to about where they had been over the weekend.

 Had an appt with Sujata of Nevro to change the stimulator programming at Michiana Spine.  I tried to explain to her that my pain is not consistent so it can take a long time to know if a given setting is actually working or not but it didn't seem to take as she wants me to go up a light every two days until I see improvement.  I had called MS the week before and given them a fax number  Sujata is concerned about one lead being placed really low and wanted to see the images from the surgery to how they compare to ones taken 6 months ago.  I called the surgeons office, Dr. Di,  and they said I couldn't request the images, that the Dr. office had to do it and gave me a fax # for them to send a request to. I called and told someone at MS the situation and that I had an appt with Sujata on Monday, gave them the fax # and said we needed these images asap.  On Monday, no images and no one knew anything about and shirked all responsibility and then got pissy ...