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Wishing it would just stop hurting
by: Yvette on Wed, Jun 25 2008
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When I was 16 I was shot in the chest with an AK47 and was told I would be fine… SURE… if that wasn’t just the cruelest joke I had ever believed… my reconstructive surgeon was the only one that believed that I hurt every other doctor just looked at me like I was completely crazy... my reconstructive surgeon gave me a # to a doctor that he went to med school with which soon diagnosed me with RSD… Soon after being diagnosed I was given a bunch of medications that didn’t work… All I wanted was to just die… after all this I just wanted the pain to end I hurt so bad all the time and it never goes away… the guy that shot me got charged with attempt to commit capital murder… but at the time I hadn’t been diagnosed so he only got 30 years… I feel bad for him but the longer I live with this pain the more I realize that he got off easy compared to what I have to live with day in and day out… I no longer can afford the doctor visits and don’t have the freedom to be able to go through MHMR to get the help I cry for… I have to work to support my family as I am now a single mother of 2 small children… I need any help that I can get but most people don’t have a clue what RSD is or what I have to go through and to be perfectly honest I don’t care to tell them anymore… mostly when someone tells me they hurt for something stupid I want to just grab them and shake them and make them understand that at least their pain will end… mine never will…
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  1. Sun, Jul 27 2008
    Hey Tricia, I know how you feel. Just learned I have it in the same places as you. I know it will never get better. But You will just have to work it ...Read
  2. Wed, Jul 09 2008
    Hi. My name is Tricia. I can totally cry right along with your story. NOONE understands. To hear people complain just makes me really really mad to...Read
  3. Thu, Jul 03 2008
    Hi .... My name is Heather I dont have RSD but for the last two months I have been caring for a lady who was just recently diagnosed with it ! I cann...Read

June 2008

  • MY RSD - by BRAD - (Mon, Jun 30 2008)
    MY NAME IS BRAD I AM 25 YEAR OLD MALE FROM MARYLAND AND I SUFFER FROM RSD AND CRPS. [more..]
  • Wishing it would just stop hurting - by Yvette - (Wed, Jun 25 2008)
    When I was 16 I was shot in the chest with an AK47 and was told I would be fine… SURE… if that wasn’t just the cruelest joke I had ever believed… my reconstructive surgeon was the only one that believed that I hurt every other doctor just looked at me like I was completely crazy.. [more..]
  • L.P.N - by VIRGINIA - (Mon, Jun 23 2008)
    TRAUMATIC NERVE INJURY TO RT LOWER EXT IN THE ANKLE/HEEL AREA, INJURY OCCURED ALMOST A YEAR AGO. I HAVE TRIED NUMEROUS MEDS. FOR THE NERVE PAIN HOWEVER NONE HAVE BEEN EFFICIANT IN ALLEVIATING THE PAIN, I SUFFER WITH BURNING AND SENSISITIVITY TO TOUCH ALONG THE BOTTOM OF MY FOOT. [more..]
  • My story - by Kathy - (Thu, Jun 19 2008)
    I first posted my story when I was diagnosed with RSD in February of 2007in my left arm. Since that time I have had 30 Stellate Ganglion Blocks and 6 Radiofrequency Burns for shaking. [more..]
  • Recently Diagnosed with RSD - by Linda - (Mon, Jun 16 2008)
    I had a knee injury at work in 3/07. WC made me wait 2 months before the doctor was able to perform arthroscopic surgery. I continued to work those 2 months, with burning/seering pain in my right leg/knee. [more..]
  • 5 years and counting trying to get help.. - by MS - (Fri, Jun 13 2008)
    I was in a bad auto accident 9/11/2003 and was treated and treated and treated with no results, I finally went back to my family phys. and was given info and told he thought I had RSD in 2004, nothing was put in my records ect [more..]
  • Looking for help in Arizona - by Erin - (Wed, Jun 04 2008)
    My husband was injured at work 3 years ago - it went misdiagnosed for 6 month by the workers comp Dr and only after being granted a 2nd opinion did they find the injury. [more..]
  • RSD - by plt - (Wed, Jun 04 2008)
    I’m a 47 yr old women who has RSD. Have had it since 2002, I had leg surgery. And went to have the stiches taken out and it hurt like hell. That is when the Doctor said I think you may have RSD. [more..]
  • No where to turn - by Marney - (Mon, Jun 02 2008)
    My name is Marney, 31yo from NJ. One month ago I had surgery for my P.F. I had 5 days where I had NO pain. After those 5 days(about 3 weeks after surgery), my foot swelled up and now the pain is constant and unbearable. [more..]

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