TENS Units vs, Fent patch

Has anyone had success with TENS units? I have heard that after awile that they stop working well. Is this true? I am the person who went on oxycontin for 10 years for a debilitating female condition and thought suboxone would help the pain. I was mad at my doctor for misleading me and didn't want to return his calls. Glad I listened to all you AWESOME people on here. He found me a CP doctor that will work with me. My doc told me to try the tens unit first so it looks good like I am trying a non medication route and if that doesn't work,which I hope it does b/c I HATE taking pills like everyone here does. He thinks I will eventually have to take the fentnyl patch. What dose whould I be on if I was taking 160 mgs of oxys a day for 10 years. Last thing I want is for it to not be enough and go into W/D. The suboxone raises your tolerance level really high. Would a 25mg patch help? Does the patch fall off If I go swimming, shower etc. I did try the patch 10 years ago and my skin became inflammed and you could see the outline of the patch after I took it off. At least I have hope now. Thank you for all your inspirational, kind words of the past. . Could a TENS unit touch the female genetalia? Any thoughts would help. Have a blessed night.

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I like my tens unit, but I don't use it everyday and I think that's why it helps.
I have lidocaine patches but since we're very hot in Texas, I don't use them.
Heat + patch = not a good thing (for me anyways)
Soft hugz and I hope you get the answers your looking for, keep us posted.

Char,
Would you mind deleting the long lines of "***" in your signature? I believe this creates problems and makes all the rest of the posts in the thread difficult to read, at least it does for my computer.

Thanks,
PaLady

Thanks for the replies everyone. At least I know that placing thr TENS near my "flower" so to speak would not benefit me. Knowing that in of itself was priceless info. Bless you all!



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