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St Jude BurstDR Help Your Emotional Pain, too??

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ellebe
ellebe

***BurstDR stimulation works differently7,8 and is believed to naturally target both the brain’s medial and lateral pathways, allowing physicians to address a patient’s emotional and physical response to pain to improve pain relief.

Anyone in here find this to be true?? I have my stim set on "continuous mode" feeling every single pusle/sensation vs "bursts" and not "feeling" the little shocks.. I really want to know if the other setting is best for the emotional pain/suffering of intense and chronic pain. If so, I may switch and try to rely on pain meds for the physical pain hoping that the BurstDR setting will help my mental condition return with a smile.

Please help if you have any advice, suggestions, directions... 

?Lauryn Barrett

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  • allaroundanne
    allaroundanne ellebe

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    Hmmm...the emotional factors are controlled by nerves inside the brain itself that release chemicals we have all become familiar with, like dopamine, serotonin.  Drugs that make us feel good cause these nerves to release too much of the "feel good" chemicals in our brain.  The SCS operates down in your spinal cord.  It is operating on the gate theory, you bump your knee, rubbing it makes it feel better, the SCS is like rubbing.  Does the rubbing also make the nerves in your brain release feel good chemicals and would high frequency rubbing release more of them?  I haven't seen any studies yet.  I think that if your SCS is capable of pain relief, no matter how it does it, your emotional pain/suffering can't help but improve. I wouldn't change your settings and rely more on narcotics. You don't develop tolerance to SCS, but you do to narcotics, you will need more and more as time goes on to keep your pain in check.

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