Hi Jen
I am so sory your doc was such a jerk to you.. it sounded to me like he may have been flustered or perhaps intimidated by the spread ect.. his "ohh my gosh" at the coldness etc..

My concern is for you finding another doctor who is on board with the scope of the involvement of your RSD, so many doctors do not believe that spread happens, expecialy if you are (I presume) early into RSD (sory my memorys shot).

Please don't get me wrong he was very impatient with you and rude (understatement) to snap at a patient in pain AND I hope he can't sleep with feeling so bad for what he did, but most likely he is one of those docs with nasty bedside manners and he was having a realy bad day and he was frustrated at having no answers for you and delt with it very badly.

Either way I would write a note to him explaining how it went how you felt, why it was wrong and asking him to reply back on this issue. this will I think at the least make you feel better, but it may make him sit up and think of it from the patients view, and mabie the next RSD patient he see's will not have to go through the same crap.

Asking him to reply is crutial to his treatment for his ailment (nastyness), and a part of his recovery process should he see fit to join the HUMAN race, some doctors are just too full of themselves to apologise but if they can find it in their big ego's it will make them a better doctor for it.

Or just go on as you are I am sure you have considered all this and perhaps he wasn't your regular doc just a specialist or you have more docs on board with your progress, I just wanted to help you think of the obstacles in the doctor hunting world, here where I am I have to first prove/show docs that RSD can spread it's like they are in the dark ages and never read their books (lol but realy not funny)

My docs are getting there and I just about quit each of my docs at least once, and we all get along better for me telling them how I feel about the care I get, I do it so'as to not upset the delicate ego but to make therm think of it from my side.

One doc I left for much the same reason but I regret it some days now, he too was a pompus fool but a thourough one unlike some other's.

Nice to see your significant other is protective and suportive too.

Good luck and Hugs,
Sandra