Thank you for the nice response. The surgeon did tell me one thing that he thinks the last surgeon did wrong. The surgeon accidentally cut a hole in my dura during the surgery. When he cut the dura they filled it with some type of surgical foam to stop the leak. Two days later the surgeon did an emergency laminectomy from T6 to T10 and at the same time he implanted the permanent SCS leads. The leads were placed directly over where he had cut the dura. The Neurosurgeon I have now thinks that because the last surgeon placed the leads over the tear in the dura that the scare tissue formed from the dura and partially around the leads. He will have to be very careful to remove the scar tissue without damaging the dura during my surgery this Friday. He promised to document any of his findings for me. I really want to know what the last surgeon did to cause so much damage, pain, and loss of feeling.
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