Thank you to everyone!!

I just needed some support. Going through this is the worst thing ever! Thanks for the love, hugs, thoughts and prayers. It means so much to me... it has just been one of those days where I feel like no one understands and I need to talk to someone who DOES! I appreciate you all! Cry I did... it is just so hard to look back and see that at this time a year ago I was grooming dogs for my neighbors, I was running around and training my own dog, planning to start a home business with training/ grooming dogs... and now? I cannot even walk unassisted. Even then I fall. It gets overwhelming sometimes, and that is when I get on here and just read and know that these are all people who can relate to me. And I can email my close RSD teen/ young friends who are going through the same thing. That helps me make it through this. Sometimes it is doing something other for a day or two, or even just a few minutes of something else to get my mind off of the RSD. But bedtime has been the worst. My pain is highest at night now, and so laying in bed without anything to distract me from the pain is tough- though meditation helps somewhat.

It is just hard to swallow that I had a STUPID thumb injury (slammed it into the car door) and now I have FULL BODY RSD!! No one can fully comprehend (other than other RSDers) how such a small injury could off set THIS monster! And I cannot believe I wouldn't be aware enough not to shut my thumb in the car door... I guess it happens to the best of us! But it is hard to swallow just because I am so young.

Thanks again everyone for listening to me, and thanks for the wonderful support!

Artist and Buckwheat- thanks for pointing out the lyme disease... I have only had quick testing done as far as that goes, but this is something I will definitely look into more and talk to my doctor about. The story about the girl with lyme disease made me cry, and I am so glad that it got finally figured out! My mom has had lyme disease twice, my brother had it once, as well as many neighbors and we live near a bunch of wooded areas where ticks jut thrive! So that was one of the things many people mentioned to me... it might be something that I have in addition to the RSD... it is very possible, and even MS seems like it fits me in addition to the RSD.

Artist- yeah, I am always pulling the ticks off of Sammy (my pup), and I also have found them on me about 10 times this year alone! (and I rarely go outside!). Our cats get them like crazy too.

Ticks= eek! Those things creep me out!!