Living with RSD

October 2008

• Loss of Use - by Robert - (Thu, Oct 30 2008)
  I am a classical guitarist. On May 15, 2007, a careless driver caused me to have a bicycle accident and I fractured my left wrist. Fortunately, the fracture healed rather well and within four months after the fracture I was performing again. Unfortunately, I developed RSD beginning in July 2007. [more..]
• Living with RSD as a Teenager - by Ms J - (Thu, Oct 30 2008)
  I was diagnosed with RSD when i was 13 years old. It was very scary because i had just woke up with it. I ignored it for the first day because I thought it would just go away but it didn’t. [more..]
• rsd both hands and left leg - by josie - (Thu, Oct 30 2008)
  I broke my right hand/arm Dec5/05 and since then rsd has spread to my other hand/arm and my left leg. I have bad headaches that cause my to be sick to my stomach daily from pain. [more..]
• 8 Years and running - by DB - (Tue, Oct 28 2008)
  I got RSD when I was 9, and I am now 17 still, living with the pain, but able to block it out most of the time. [more..]
• RSD My Personal Nightmare - by Chris - (Tue, Oct 28 2008)
  I was diagnosed with RSD appx.1 yr.ago. [more..]
• RSD and my life - by Robin - (Tue, Oct 21 2008)
  I am a nurse from ohio and have developed this outrageous condition called RSD. I didnt know much about it till it happened to me. I was lifting a patient to prevent her from falling and it started with shoulder surgery and then led to carpal and cubital tunnel surgery and now I am left with RSD. [more..]
• Is there any hope of being normal again? - by R - (Mon, Oct 20 2008)
  I have been unable to use my left leg for over four months now. I was a senior manager at a bank. One day, I left for lunch, and a girl ran a red light. She hit me in my driver door. [more..]
• hurt - by af - (Fri, Oct 17 2008)
  I got rsd over 15 years ago. I have it from a fall at work. I can no longer work. I can not even cut my own nails cause of pain. [more..]
• Winning Life With RSD - by RSD Coach(tm) Marla - (Wed, Oct 15 2008)
  Hi Everyone. I am a 46 year old woman who has been living with RSD for 5 years now, but I turned all the negative into a positive. [more..]
• Stuck in the blame game no where to limp 2. - by James - (Tue, Oct 14 2008)
  Friday, October 10, 2008 S.A.I.F. sent me a Workers compensation claim letter of denial. [more..]
• Too Young? - by Carlie - (Tue, Oct 14 2008)
  I am 17 years old. I was diagnosed with RSD two years ago after two shoulder surgeries because of an injury when I was 14. [more..]
• RSD - by Carolyn S. - (Tue, Oct 14 2008)
  I am 8 weeks out from a long finger trigger release and still not sure if I have RSD. [more..]
• Normal Life with RSD? - by J. K - (Mon, Oct 13 2008)
  I was diagnosed with RSD after a foot surgery five years ago. I am a military spouse and have moved around quite a bit which means I have changed pain management doctors a few times. [more..]
• Living with the pain…. - by Sara - (Mon, Oct 13 2008)
  Hello, my name is Sara and 14 years ago they told me that I had RSD. Only being a child I guess That I did not understand just what they were talking about and how bad my future looked. Its a good thing because I was a normal child, teenager and even a young adult. [more..]
• rsd and how it has changed my life - by pat - (Mon, Oct 13 2008)
  i was a constution worker all my life till one day a man ran a stop sign and hit my car in the drivers door it happened nov 5 1991 [more..]
• LIVING WITH HELL - by sb - (Thu, Oct 09 2008)
  I am 53 and have been sufering with RSD for five year.Hell is a mild word others spring to mind but i will stick to hell. [more..]
• One Day At A Time - by Jeff - (Tue, Oct 07 2008)
  HI, My name is Jeff, and I have full body RSD. I developed RSD following 3 back surgeries in a period of 4 months. I think it was the 2nd surgery that gave me the monster. [more..]
• Me and RSD for 14 years - by Sandi - (Tue, Oct 07 2008)
  Hi my name is Sandi. I’ve had rsd for 14 yrs. I got it after a hip replacement. [more..]
• Teacher caught in the crossfire - by Diane - (Wed, Oct 01 2008)
  I am a 48 year old female teacher with rsd and I have been with this for 6 years now. I was told to help break up a fight and have been paying for it physically ever since. [more..]
• RSD for 8 1/2 years - by Lisa - (Wed, Oct 01 2008)
  Hello my name Lisa Rodriguez. I developed it when I jumped in to save my Mom from hitting the back of her head, by doing this I shattered my Knee-cap. Everything went wrong when I had surgery. [more..]
• Learning about RSD - by Rebecca - (Wed, Oct 01 2008)
  I’ve been reading y’alls stories and am trying to learn more about this. I broke my leg (bimalleolar) on June 5 while skating with a church youth thing. I’m 38. Single mom of 3 teens. I had surgery on June 13th, when I went back in july to have my first cast removed my rt. leg was so swollen and discollored so the dr kept me in a cast for another 4 weeks. [more..]