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Ease The Pain (MF, mast) 
By Maggie Fox (2001)

All he was trying to do was ease her chronic back pain, but when 
Dr. Stuart Meloy placed an electrode into one patient's back, she 
groaned.

Not in pain, but in delight.

"This is a direct quote -- she said, 'You're going to have to 
teach my husband how to do that'," Meloy, an anesthesiologist and 
pain specialist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said in a 
telephone interview.

Meloy had stumbled onto an unexpected side-effect of the pain 
device he was using -- an ability to cause orgasm.

He has just patented this unexpected use of the device, a spinal 
cord stimulator made by device company Medtronic. Now he is trying 
to talk Minneapolis-based Medtronic into testing and marketing the 
device for this use.

It all started with a relatively routine operation for Meloy, who 
was trying to help a patient with severe and untreatable back 
pain.

"She had had a number of back surgeries for degenerative disk 
disease and fusion surgery," Meloy said.

He was trying Medtronic's spinal cord stimulator to see if it 
might work in her case. "These people are either suffering a lot 
or there is certainly a place for narcotics to be used."

The surgeon has to place an electrode very precisely in the 
patient's spine. The idea is to find the specific nerve bundle 
that is carrying his or her pain signals to the brain.

It requires some trial and error and sometimes, Meloy said, the 
surgeon hurts a patient, who will groan or cry out.

At first he thought this had happened with this patient.

SHE MADE A "DIFFERENT" SOUND.

"But the sound that she made was a little bit different. I asked 
her what it was," he said. That was when she recommended he teach 
her husband the technique.

"The next day in the operating room, the nurses were all asking me 
how one gets that," Meloy deadpanned.

Meloy said he repositioned the electrode and was able to help the 
patient's pain. "We able to reduce her narcotics usage by about a 
half," he said.

He was not able to offer her a dual use of the pacemaker-sized 
device, which is implanted under the skin.

The device works not to block pain but to change the way the 
patient perceives it. "Instead of feeling pain, they feel what 
most people describe as a buzzing sensation in the affected area," 
Meloy said.

"It's not so much a distraction as a change in perception. You are 
altering what they feel."

This seemed to work the same way in pushing the a patient's orgasm 
button. "Yes, she literally got a buzz," Meloy sighed. "Yes, we 
turned her on. The puns can go on and on."

But he hopes to turn this to a serious use.

"Once you get past the giggles and smirks, as far as orgasmic 
dysfunction goes, it is a very real problem. 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."

In other words, no "Orgasmatron" as featured in the 1973 Woody 
Allen movie "Sleeper."

Meloy hopes he could develop the device for temporary use, to 
retrain a patient's sexual response. "You could just get them back 
in the groove or whatever." Then the device could be used outside 
the body via a catheter.

But Meloy stressed it was no toy.

"Even for pain management patients we certainly exhaust all other 
possibilities before we start utilizing this type of technique," 
he said.

Will it work on all kinds of people, men as well as women? "I 
observed it twice," Meloy said.

"I hang out with other people who do pain management, and I have 
heard of it working with men as well," he said.

"Is it reproducible? I sure hope so."