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Elle Tens Machine- any good??

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Leilababyno1 · 01/04/2011 17:01

I am 36 weeks, so need to get ordering a Tens asap- gonna hire one, have heard good things about the standard Elle Tens....

....Or are all the different makes a 'much of a muchness'?

Thanks!

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bessie26 · 02/04/2011 07:36

Hope it's good, it's what my friend has lent me!

She used it for both her labours & said it was great. She told me to go see the Maternity Physio & they will draw crosses on your back where the pads need to go!

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Milliemuffin · 02/04/2011 11:50

I couldn't have got through my labours without it. I bought mine for £70 and have definitely got my moneys worth and I'll be using it again for DC3 in the summer. It got me through my contractions with DC2 for so long I got to hospital at 940 and she was born at 950! Xx

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tiokiko · 02/04/2011 15:15

I thought it was fantastic, it got me to 8cm before needing G&A.

Make sure you use it from the very first contractions and keep on all the way through, to get the most benefit from it. I bought mine and then sold for about £20 less on eBay so it worked out cheaper/as cheap as renting.

It might also be worth getting an extra pack of the electrode (sticky) pads - I had 3 days slow labour at home and changed them a few times so that definitely helped.

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Nagoo · 02/04/2011 16:45

I LOVED mine. used nothing else.

Men tried it out on their various body parts, for entertainment couldn't hack it past level 3. I had it cranked up to full power in labour and it was amazing.

agree get it on you right from the start.

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BananaPie · 02/04/2011 18:28

I hired one from birthease.co.uk for £20. Not sure what make it was, but it definitely helped.

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Leilababyno1 · 02/04/2011 22:12

Thank's all! I have hired an Elle Tens from tens.co.uk for £19.99- 6 week rental- so very pleased.....should arrive by next wk, fingers crossed!

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wobblyweeble82 · 03/04/2011 08:46

Leila - can you share the link? Completely forgot about TENS this time and last time I wasn't giving it up for anybody or anything. Ruddy marvellous

(Although I did hear a horror story on the ALan Carr radio show yesterday who when having her waters broken, they all gushed up her back and started electrocuting her as she had her TENS on ... Which is nice...)

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Leilababyno1 · 03/04/2011 14:16

Here you go wobblyweeble82....

www.tens.co.uk/acatalog/Elle_TeNS_Hire_Option_.html#a498

God...That sounds awful! If a tad humorous...

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wobblyweeble82 · 03/04/2011 15:39

Humorous as long as it doesn't happen to me! Thanks for link :)

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