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Has anyone ever had stem cell treatment for pain relief? If so can you tell me how you did with it, how it works, where on your body you had it done. deta

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I saw a consultant at the pain management clinic at st Thomas's in London and mentioned stem cell treatment. His opinion was that it was still too new and why would I want to be a guinea pig. I hope this helps.

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Amkoffee in reply tomamahill

I guess my reply would be somebody has to be the guinea pig why not me. LOL

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mamahill in reply toAmkoffee

I guess that's up to you. I was only offered a trial spinal cord stimulator along with pain management course. I've now got a 2/3 month wait for the trial 😲

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Amkoffee

Well at least the trial worked for you. I hope you have success with it. I did not do well on the trial. They never could get it in the right place so I didn't get one.

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Guyb in reply toAmkoffee

I've saiid to my neurologist that I'd like to be considered my aunts second husband had it done now just has a slight limp it's amazing

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Amkoffee in reply toGuyb

That is exciting. I hope you get to try it. I have since found out that insurance doesn't cover it and it's very expensive. And of course I live in the U.S..

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