Living with RSD

June 2009

• feel like a guinea pig - by wendy - (Tue, Jun 30 2009)
  hi im wendy from england, i was diagnosed with RSD in feb 08 and since then i have been in constant pain ,i have put my story on here when i first started with RSD and now im getting worse i feel like my whole body is slowly [more..]
• RSD - by Chris - (Tue, Jun 30 2009)
  Hi, 7 years ago I had twisted my angle which I found out that I had not broken it but I had torn the ligaments, muscles, nerves & veins. My foot, toes and ankle were blue/black and after several visits to the hospital and doctors telling me that [more..]
• Does RSD move from one area to another? - by Gerry - (Wed, Jun 24 2009)
  In Dec. 2005 I slipped and dislocated my right elbow. My arm was put in a cast and when the cast was removed my hand, wrist and fingers were swollen almost twice their normal size. About the same time my husband died and I was very stressed. Came down with shingles and was diagnosed with RSD. [more..]
• poem rsd - by Sharrie - (Wed, Jun 24 2009)
  Praying to die but I’m still alive I have this illness they call RSD. I don’t know why it happened to me. [more..]
• 46 YEARS OLD - by BARRY - (Wed, Jun 24 2009)
  After gliding past a 2006 mitral valve replacement i was walking 10 miles 4 months later then i had a right hemisphere stroke and physically i overcame it in about 8 months. [more..]
• My Story - by A. Schlieske - (Wed, Jun 24 2009)
  November 11, 2005 is a date that I will never forget. Besides it being Veteran’s Day, it was the day I got hurt at work. [more..]
• 36,624 Hours and Counting. - by Ailsa L - (Tue, Jun 23 2009)
  My name’s Ailsa, and I’m 17. I’ve sunk really low and need to feel helpful once again, so I hope that my story can inspire others and give people hope, the way those around me have done. In April 15th, 2005 I had a freak seizure at the school bus stop, and fell. A simple fall. That resulted in me developing CRPS (also known as RSD), in my right ankle. [more..]
• The Seventh Grade Gimp With RSD - by Alissa - (Mon, Jun 22 2009)
  I was in seventh grade taking a routine pacer test in my schools gym when my ankle turned under. i still remember the date, still remember the time, still remember limping up to my gym teacher and telling her that my ankle hurt. She just told me to sit down and wait it out. It was probably nothing. by the end of my gym class my foot was the size of a large pear and my shoe was killing me. [more..]
• living with RSD - by Michela - (Fri, Jun 19 2009)
  My mom was diagnosed with RSD some time ago and has progressively gotten worse over the years. It started off only in her left arm and has traveled up to her face as well as down all the way to her feet. [more..]
• My RSD Journey - by MRW - (Thu, Jun 18 2009)
  I have been living with high level chronic pain for 16 years, following a bad motorcycle accident. Then in May 04 I had a massive stroke which left me paralysed on my left side. Now 2 GPs believe I have RSD. [more..]
• rsd - by christine - (Tue, Jun 16 2009)
  my name is christine and i have rsd, i received an injection in my arm of a medication called phenergan that sat in my arm killing cells til i had surgery to have it removed this injection was dec 3 2007 and was diagnosed aroung march 2008 [more..]
• Living with RSD for many years - by CC - (Tue, Jun 16 2009)
  Hi, I injured my legs in an accident. I had surgery on both of them. After going to several specialists, I was finally diagnosed with RSD in 1988. [more..]
• In the Dark - by Melanie - (Mon, Jun 15 2009)
  I’m 48yr old and this is my 1st injury ever. On Feb 27, 09 I fell while standing on a chair at work. Landed on my right hand which was bent inwards towards my wrist causing two fractures to my wrist. [more..]
• I Have Taken on the Dragon! RSD - by Wanda - (Wed, Jun 10 2009)
  Thats what I call it because of the fire hot burning and pain that is caused from this horrible monster. [more..]
• Battling RSD - by V - (Wed, Jun 10 2009)
  Battling RSD………..I can relate to RSD stories. Five years ago I had a stress fracture of the talus on my left ankle.(Done by cleaning cob webs on my ceiling by standing on my coffee table) I also had a very stressful job. I flunked physical therapy twice. My doctor sent me to another doctor to diagnose this as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. [more..]
• rsd rules my life - by barry g. - (Tue, Jun 09 2009)
  i was about 17 years old i broke my left ankle in 3 places. i had ankle problems and a lip for a couple years. but 20 years later i could not work over and i could only wear rebox shoes with arch support. [more..]
• how it started… - by k.o.c - (Mon, Jun 08 2009)
  In the spring of my sixth grade(I was 11 years old) I was suffering from pain in my toes when wearing shoes. I assumed it was because my toes curl slightly. I went to see a orthopedic doctor, and they told my my tendons were too tight in two of my toes on my left foot causing the curling. [more..]
• RSD - by Sharon - (Mon, Jun 08 2009)
  Hi. I just joined the group, and reading some of your stories is just killing me. I also have RSD for about 4 years now. [more..]
• My hand is beginning to look like a claw - by Janice - (Mon, Jun 01 2009)
  I fractured my wrist in November ‘08. While in the cast, my fingers were intensely sensitive and swollen, and the skin on the back of my hand felt as if it was being rubbed with hot sand paper. [more..]
• when it started - by EH - (Mon, Jun 01 2009)
  In september 2004 i was 16 i had my first surgery to my shoulder, after my surgery i always had a sharp pain that would never go away. [more..]