Hi Theodora,
The skeptic isn't a dr I see anymore he was just the one who noticed the problem and referred me out for someone to figure it out when he couldn't.

What I don't understand is my bine scan showed in my wrist, which just gets red but not really swollen, and it hurts bad of course. However, the vusable stuff is in the first knuckle of my thumb. It gets so swollen I sometimes thing it's going to pop and red and hard to move. It even is starting to look like its twisting. I lose circulation and often light touch makes the nerves in my hand go crazy. I had all the ra blood tests done xrays etc. one thing I haven't had was have my soft tissue checked. This hand specialist seemed to suspect crps the minute he saw my thumb. But said the bone scan didn't explain my thumb.
This doesn't make much sense to me because the thumb is what is the worst part.

So the doc who didnt seem satisfied with the diagnosis isn't the dr I will be seeing for treatment. I just saw him in passing and mentioned it to him and that was his response.

Out of curiosity, once the diagnosis is made, is everything from here out going to be pinned to this? there's been no suggestion of further testing and I can't help but wonder about what they haven't checked. Maybe I do have a soft tissue injury that possibly caused this or is why my thumb is so bad. Even though they are probably right, I feel like it was a bit hasty. Maybe this is why Ortho doc said what he did.