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Originally Posted by KimA
I have no allergies.
My pet theory is that perhaps CRPS/RSD is more likely when the injury/surgery takes place during a particularly stressful time (by this I mean, stress apart from the precipitating injury/surgery). My understanding it the disease first began to be identified in soldiers in the American Civil War and I think it is still being seen in combat troops.
Of course, that is just my personal pet theory with no real foundation. Pure speculation.
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You could be absolutely correct. I've heard this many many times. My wife was stressed a couple of times during her broken wrist nightmare. For one she is shy, we were out of town visiting my family, she worked at a very stressful Benefit division for a large business. When she broke her arm, she had it set at a hospital in NJ. They wanted her to stay the night, she refused. They warned her her arm may not be set correctly and wanted to make sure it was. She decided to wait and have it looked at in DC. One month later she had to have the wrist rebroke and set. She made another bad decision by refusing to be admitted into the hospital, sedated for the arm to be reset. She wanted the arm redone in the docs office using local anesthetic. And the nightmare really started. She never liked doctors, hospitals of any sort and has been extremely difficult for her to then have to deal with multible doctors etc. Very stressful for her.