Fainting and rsd
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I've had RSD for 4 1/2 yrs. Been through injections, nerve blocks and failed attempt for a SCS and I've tried many medications that usually have some allergic reaction. I'm on a couple that don't take the pain all way but my system tolerates. My new doctor wants to try and do 3 stellate ganglion blocks for my arm. The other blocks 4 yrs. ago didn't help. I asked him about nerve blocks for my feet because it is a fairly new area that the RSD is spreading into.
I saw a new ENT and he said that I probably had RSD. I saw a pain specialist yesterday and she put me on Lyrica, and agreed that I have RSD. I'm going to see her again next week. I've read that RSD is treatable if one goes after it early. Is there anything else that I should be doing? Additional medicine? Injections? I do not want to have this terrible burning for the rest of my life, and any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Thanks for your reply... unfortunately my orth.since I talked to his assistant hasn't wanted to communicate with me at all since I let them know about rsd...i'm seeing a dr. who specialized in pain management, and rsd. I've found alot of dr's have no experience and extrememly limited knowledge of rsd..which is unfortunate. I've been told if caught early ( which it generally isn't) is much more easily treatable.
ve never been the same since. I had fainting spells and had to stop driving for awhile. Finally a doctor told me that they were called vasovagal syncope which has to do with a problem with the vagus nerve. Two months after I stopped the fainting spells I was diagnosed with asthma. I also had a disorder called RSD reflex sympathetic dystrophy which has to do with the sympathetic nervous system located in the spine. I was told that this is the fight or flight system in the body.
ve has RSD since 2000 when I went into the hospital for a kidney infection and ended up on the RSD nightmare road. I've done nerve blocks, narcotics, denial, counseling. I am very lucky to live in an area that has doctors who understand and are sympathetic to RSD. I finally found a pain care facility that actually cares about their patients not just the money. I agree with the statements that stress worsens the condition, I am living proof of that.
post laminectomy syndrome with significant ridicular component in both upper extremities and RSD with the primary focus in the left upper extremity and cervival facet arthropathy." The report also indicates I have severe occipital neuraligia. I also have abnormalities bi-laterally in the bracheil plexus, carpel and cubital tunnel as well as remainng buldging and herniated discs.
I recently moved from the Phila area where I was being treated to NW PA.
Many of your symptoms are those of patients who suffer from RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy), now called CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome), especially the burning, the shooting and stinging pain, or what many of us who have RSD, call stabbing pain. We also have aching pain. I fractured my shoulder four years ago, and when I went to use the computer after finally having surgery on the shoulder, I never realized just how related our hand typing was related to the shoulder.
, surgeon refused to see me for ongoing complaint of pain and swelling and discoloration in arm and hand, filed a complaint about pt guy, refused any further service from medical clinic... another clinic has taken me in, rx of RSD... now what??? any advise is welcome... still have swelling and bluish hand, numbness, weakness, cramps... however i do have fairly good range of motion....
My RSD was diagnosed in, 2006, and then 2007 diagnosed with diabetes,
now I have been diagnosed with gastroparesis, and on a waiting list for a gastric pump. I'm always hurting with my RSD, which makes me very weak and can't do much. The gastroaresis is painful as well. The medications do help, but without the medication, I would not be here today, the pain would be to bad. I see a pain management Doctor, and another Doctor for my gastroparesis.
However, my doctor thinks that due to having so many back surgeries in so many places, shoulder surgery, wrist surgery, and due to also having Arachnoiditis, when RSD flares up on me, sometimes I can barely stand a sheet to be on top of my legs. Once I went for an ultrasound therapy (at physical therapy) and when the therapist put the ultrasound thing on my back I thought someone had hit me with a 2 by 4 wooden post!!!
I have had them dialated and full exam like 4 times and they think everything is fine. My face and ear pain along with eye has come to be very severe and I am wondering now if it may not be an eye issue only. Would a neurologist again be beneficial? None of the docs I see think there is a connection between my rsd/pn and the leg with the eye though but since my face/ear has begun to hurt and I don't have an ear infection I am wondering.
Hi, it's been a while and I don't know if somebody helped you. I've been diagnosed with RSD in my left foot approx 20 years ago and listened to my stupid doctor. But that's not important. Here is the treatment which I've found thanks to US governmental agency and which helped me tremendously: Low daily doses of ULTRASOUND. I don't remember the ultrasound frequency but it was tested by the doctors at UC Davis, so they can advise you.
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