Hey littlepaw,

My RSD feels more like electrical shocks, stabbing, crushing and throbbing than burning, so now that felling has spread to my shoulder and hand on my right side. I don't really know what might have triggered it. Last Dec, something happened, it may have been that the pressure band I was wearing smooshed something more in my arm, I don't really know. Anywhos, after wearing the band ( at the time the doctors thought I hand tendinitis or something close to it) my pain spiked to the most unbearable pain I have ever felt and I had to go to the ER. They were the first people that actually saw it for what it was, RSD. After going to the ER, my flares have been more constant and now go into my hand and shoulder. I don't know what triggered the original onset of RSD, my best friend who has since recovered from RSD all over her body thinks it may have been from a blood draw, since my usually is most constant in my elbow. Thanks for your reply!