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Thanks for your reply. Before the artificial disc, my husband had terrible shooting pains down his leg. The artificial disc elevated the disc height and replaced the torn disc tissue that was leaking inflammatory mediators onto the nerves. The pain that remained is chronic - they have told him that the pain nerves don't know how to do anything else since they've been constantly firing for 14 years. He's since had a neurostimulator implanted in his spine which helps about 25% - pain people and their families will do anything to ease their suffering. The hypnotherapy has not allowed him to decrease meds, but it takes care of the remaining horrible pain that the meds won't touch and gives him not only more quality of life, but a tool to use instead of reaching for another pain med - more personal empowerment which increases his self-esteem.View Thread

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