Hey Alt

Sorry your doc is refusing to see the blindingly obvious here.....if he knows the criteria for diagnosing CRPS, he should know that the most of the diagnostic evidence symptoms (ie burning skin, temp changes, blood flow issues, thinning of skin etc) would not be visible internally. But the biggest one as far as this goes is that a diagnosis of CRPS can be given in the absence of any better explanation of the patients symptoms. When you can't see what else is going on, and they've done every other test possible, and nothing else is going on (but the pain is persistent and crippling), and most importantly THE PATIENT ALREADY SUFFERS FROM WIDESPREAD CRPS (duh), then a diagnosis of CRPS in your abdominal area seems perfectly logical. To subject you to any more testing just on the basis of a refusal to diagnose something he hasn't done before seems ludicrous.

Maybe someone else on this forum has had a diagnosis of abdominal CRPS, in which case it might be possible to contact their specialist and ask if they have come across abdominal CRPS, and would they be willing to advise your specialist of that fact, along with the symptoms they recognised.

I hope someone can help you soon. Hang in there and don't give up. I hope you can enjoy some of Christmas despite what this disease throws at you.

Bram.