Piriformis Syndrome Surgery: How Debbie Went From Hell to Heaven “I feel like I went from hell to heaven in one surgery.” That’s how Debbie describes her piriformis syndrome surgery with Dr. Tim Tollestrup. Before it, she had seen 22 doctors over nine months. She went...
Post-Amputation Nerve Pain After Five Surgeries: Rodney’s Story Before he found Dr. Tim Tollestrup, Rodney had undergone five surgeries for post-amputation nerve pain, and none of them worked. After his below-knee amputation, he developed severe nerve pain that...
Seven years ago, Rod had piriformis removal surgery with Dr. Tim Tollestrup at Nevada Nerve Surgery in Henderson, Nevada. On the seventh anniversary of that surgery, he sent Dr. Tollestrup a text message — not because something was wrong, but because he wanted his...
Jack has been living with piriformis syndrome pain for three years, and he is sharing his story before it has a clean ending — because he knows that most of the people searching for answers right now are still in the middle of their own story too. His pain started...
Jackson was a teenager when he developed severe abdominal pain after an illness involving prolonged vomiting. The illness resolved. The abdominal wall pain did not. Dr. Tim Tollestrup suspected ACNES surgery was the answer before he even met the patient — because the...
Rodney was born with a club foot. After decades of reconstructive surgeries and farming through relentless pain, he developed severe nerve damage and was repeatedly told it was phantom pain. He knew it was not in his head. He went to a major institution in Maryland...
