Living with RSD

September 2008

• 20 years old n have rsd - by niki w - (Mon, Sep 29 2008)
  Hi i just got out of hospital after being diagnosed with rsd. it started about 4 months back with my right ankle starting to ache, then it progressed enough for me to go to the docs, i was prescribed painkillers and told to get on with it, i then went back and had an x ray which showed the start of arthritus. [more..]
• rsd in left leg - by pss - (Mon, Sep 29 2008)
  I am a 38 year old female with rsd and I have been with this for 3 years now. At first I was told that I may have had just a large hematoma and that over time it would heal. Ha not so , now I am on so much meds. that I just hate my life style. [more..]
• Ten years with RSD - by Kim - (Mon, Sep 22 2008)
  Hi, my name is Kim and I’ve been living with RSD for ten years now. I was an RN and fell at work. I broke my wrist and immediately had severe swelling, sensitivity to hot and cold, color changes and sensitivity to touch. [more..]
• 23 YR OLD WITH BROKEN ANKLE - by DIANA G. - (Mon, Sep 22 2008)
  Hi my name is Diana I live on Long Island NY and I fell coming out of my car on a parking lot of a store on 7/13/08 (I was getting a birthday cake for my mom) there was a sewage drain below ground level with cracked and uneven pavement around it. As I was comming out of my car and put my left foot on the ground and release the other foot from the running board of the car I fell and my ankle broke [more..]
• RSD/CRPS The Invisible Destroyer - by Keith - (Fri, Sep 19 2008)
  Greetings all, My name is Keith. I am now 54 years old. I have spine degeneration issues that led to a spinal cord injury in my cervical area from a hard coughing spell about 11 years ago. [more..]
• a diagnoses of RSD is scary - by kjk - (Wed, Sep 17 2008)
  my name is not important my story could be. maybe it can help someone. i am a female, over fifty, i fell and broke my arm, both bones. [more..]
• my story about rsd - by amy - (Tue, Sep 16 2008)
  hi my name is amy harshey and i am a 40 yr old woman from pennsylvania, I also am a patient with rsd, cprs. [more..]
• This is just no way to live - by TJ - (Tue, Sep 16 2008)
  Back in 1983 I was involved in a single car accident at the time I had a great job driving a cement mixer the pay was good the people I worked with were a good bunch of guy’s I had been there for six year’s life was great, I had a great credit score and was two week’s away from buying a cabin which I had been renting. [more..]
• Feels like it’ll never end - by michelle - (Mon, Sep 15 2008)
  Hi, I got hurt at work loading a semitrailer in a discount/retail store. First dr. I saw said it was nothing, put an ace bandage around my left knee at a bending restriction on me and sent me back to work with a follow up app. in one week, not even an x-ray. [more..]
• rsd sucks - by kim - (Thu, Sep 11 2008)
  i had surgery to repair my tendon in my right thumb 4/23/08. started physical therapy and it was going ok until 6/13/08 when I started having pain in my hand and my arm. The surgeon diagnosed me with rsd and started me on 300mg nuerontin 3x aday. [more..]
• My Broken Foot - by keith t. - (Wed, Sep 10 2008)
  i was attacked one evening and i received a broken disslocated ankle with torn muscles as well. [more..]
• My story - by Chelle - (Tue, Sep 09 2008)
  I fell in at church one Sunday off of my high heels. I was taken to the ER and they diagnosed me with a sprained foot and put me on crutches. [more..]
• This is my 4th bout with RSD - by Mary Ann - (Tue, Sep 09 2008)
  In 1992, I broke my leg and ankle. It wasn’t until about 2 weeks after the cast was removed that the symptoms began. Burning pain, color change of skin, etc. [more..]
• RSD Surviver - by LG - (Tue, Sep 09 2008)
  I was in a bad car accident. I’ve have several operations.I have five children and was on heavy pain medicine.I was suffering from this very painful condition up until 3 months ago when I started drinking the Acai berry juice. [more..]
• more treatment - by wendy - (Mon, Sep 08 2008)
  hi my names wendy i was diagnosed with RSD in feb 08 and i wrote on here then this is jus an update .i have now had 1 nerve block that didnt do anything for me ,now i have to wear splints on my fingers as they are bending in the wrong direction and twisting [more..]
• Wife of a husband W/ RSD - by Shari - (Mon, Sep 08 2008)
  Hi everyone my name is shari I my husband lou has been living with rsd for almost 4 yrs now and he’s been absolutely going crazy he had an injury with his left foot at work where a box of bolts broken open form the bottom and fell on his foot needless to say it approx about 50lbs. [more..]
• After the fall - by Mark C. - (Thu, Sep 04 2008)
  I had a fall in April 2005 and by June, I had developed AVN (avascular necrosis of the femoral head). The surgeons did not want to do surgery on me until the condition advanced the next year. I then had a heart attack was on blood thinners and the surgeons wouldn’t consider surgery until I was off of the thinners. [more..]
• RSD and my life now - by Cheryl - (Tue, Sep 02 2008)
  I am now a 50 yr old woman, about 11 yrs ago I fell in a parking lot, I not only fell but I bounced up and hit the street again. That was July 4, 1997. Since hat date I have had 3 knee and back surgeries, the pain I was in was something I never had before. [more..]
• RSD - by Cathy - (Tue, Sep 02 2008)
  My 17 year daughter is suffering with RSD (her second episode) after 2 surgeries from a condition called rigid flat feet where the bones in your feet are fused together. [more..]
• wife of husband w/RSD - by tam - (Tue, Sep 02 2008)
  Hi,everyone! i’m sorry for all of you. i don’t have RSD but, my husband does. it’s been over 5 years now. [more..]