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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med,net.misc
Subject: Re: Effective Non-Drug Chronic Pain Relief
Message-ID: <371@pyuxa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Nov-83 10:27:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 22 10:27:58 1983
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I was in the hospital at this time last year for back
surgery and was given a TENS unit to help combat the
sciatica pain.  It worked to a point, however, since
I had a severly herniated disk, the TENS unit could
only do so much.  After a while, the unit could do no
more for me except compound the pain.  It does work
on mild to medium pain, but I can't reccommend it for
the real debilitating type pain.  I ended up having
microsurgery on the back and can say that anyone with
a similar problem should consider it and not try to
let a TENS unit cover the problem.