Living with RSDThis section is a place to share stories about Living with RSD Below are entries of those who have already shared their stories. We hope that you find their experiences helpful to your own situation. You may also Help others by sharing your story. To quickly access health information from your website's browser, download Spreading RSD Does it ever stop! I am a nurse and was working in a nursing home and of course short staffed. I was helping with rounds at night and lifted a patient back into a wheelchair to prevent a fall. I felt a pain in my shoulder and after three surgeries later developed RSD that took over my right arm. I now have no use of the arm and this disease is now spreading into my left arm and right leg. Even as a nurse I didnot know much about RSD and have since learned and am still learning everyday. I cannot ask why me? insted try to cope with it every day. The hardest part for me is not being able to return to a job I love. I have been a nurse for 39yrs and at age 54 I do not see myself not working, yet this is what I am left with. Treatment was delayed as it is a Workmans Comp injury and for that I am not just upset but MAD. Don’t let treatment go push and push for all the treatment available to you. Outside support is also valuable, if it weren’t for my 12yr old Grandson, I would have given up long ago. At this point I beleive there will be a cure someday, if not for me, so that others will not have to endure the pain and limitations I am left with. God Bless all that suffer from RSD Comments
March 2009
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