posted on February 8, 2001 06:37:38 PM new
A doctor using a device to cure back pain has found it delivers unexpected benefits: orgasms.
Dr. Stuart Meloy made the discovery when he hooked it up to a female patient with chronic back problems and she began to groan - not in pain, but in delight.
"She said, ‘You're going to have to teach my husband how to do that,'" said Meloy, an anesthesiologist and pain specialist in Winston-Salem, N.C.
He has just patented the new use of the device, a spinal-cord stimulator made by Medtronic.
And Meloy wants the Minneapolis-based firm to market the device for pleasure, as well as pain relief.
The device brings to mind Woody Allen's 1973 comedy, "Sleeper," in which people use a futuristic machine called the "Orgasmatron" instead of having sex.
Meloy's discovery all started with a relatively routine operation, as he tried to help a patient with severe back pain.
"She had had a number of back surgeries for degenerative disk disease and fusion surgery," he said.
He placed Medtronic's spinal-cord stimulator, a small electrode, into the patient's spine with a catheter to find the specific nerve bundle carrying her pain signals to the brain.
That's when the patient yelled out - and Meloy first thought it was a cry of pain.
"But the sound that she made was a little bit different. I asked her what it was . . . She literally got a buzz. Yes, we turned her on," he said.
"The next day in the operating room, the nurses were all asking me how one gets that."
Meloy added that the device shouldn't be considered a joke.
"Once you get past the giggles and smirks, as far as orgasmic dysfunction goes, it's a very real problem," the doctor said.
Meloy hopes to develop the device - for temporary use - to retrain a patient's sexual response and "get them back in the groove or whatever."
"People don't like to talk about it. But if we are going to utilize a device like this, it would be to allow people to have more of a normal life than some sort of supernormal life," he said.
He said the device is not a toy you'd buy in a sex shop.
"Even for pain-management patients, we certainly exhaust all other possibilities before we start utilizing this type of technique," he said.
posted on February 8, 2001 07:12:30 PM new
Well hell. I had to use an external stimulator on my leg just above the knee for several years after surgeries to help the bone grow and the last time the orthopedist even implanted a new variety.
Those damn things didn't even tickle much less stimulate bone growth.
posted on February 8, 2001 08:12:33 PM new
Well, right along that line, I was listening to NPR Radio today and there was some info about a specific, rather rare form of epilepsy, not causing grand mal, but rather, bringing about multi orgasms, one after the other. While contemplating surgery to remove the tumor causing this form of epilepsy, the doctor also told the woman patient: "Well, the tumor is not life-threatening. Why not stay the way you are...and enjoy it..."
Now! That's my kind of tumor and my kind of Doctor
******** Gosh Shosh!
OOhhhh...sorry,
Saw the thread title and thought I was being paged
Keith
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I think you guys are pulling my leg.