My wife uses a TENS as well almost nightly for shoulder and neck problems. She swears by it. I personally have used it a few times for lower back pain but I cant stand the sensation if it is turned up too much. She has a much higher tolerance for it than I do so I cant let her set it or it feels like she turns loose a hornets nest on my back.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2019 4:09:54 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Back pain Wearing TENS now. Odd sensation. How long before I will know if it is helping? Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 24, 2019, at 10:23 AM, Jay Weekley <par...@cyberbroadband.net> wrote: > > You should probably be able to pick one up from a drug store. Mine came from > Walgreens I think. > > Chuck McCown wrote: >> It might help. I know if I press my left thumb at the upper portion of my >> pelvis in just the right spot, I can kill most of the pain when walking. So >> nerve stuff helps and TENS does work on nerves. I guess my wife will get to >> enjoy her favorite drug of choice, Intra Visa injections of Amazon. >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Jay Weekley >> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2019 10:17 AM >> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Back pain >> >> A TENS unit helps me. I'm not sure if it's making the pain go away or >> if I'm just distracted from it by being electrocuted. >> >> Chuck McCown wrote: >>> Once or twice a year, I sit down wrong, or sneeze or just reach for >>> something and my back will put me on the floor. Days of almost not being >>> able to walk, yelling in pain to just roll over in bed. >>> Some years I take an IM torodol injection (or whatever its generic is >>> called nowadays). Or I just take huge does of Tylenol and Motrin. I have >>> tried the ice packs, hot baths, elastic belts etc. Nothing but massive >>> doses of NSAIDs seem to work and they take time. >>> Have not had an MRI but the interwebs seem to think this is a very common >>> thing and that I am doing what most do. >>> Not sure if they sell MJ out in Wendover Nevada yet, but I am only 99 miles >>> away. At least today I can walk. >>> Anyone have any secret therapy's for this? >>> >>> >> > > -- > *Jay Weekley* > *Cyber Broadband > * > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
