I wanted to follow up on this post to provide more information on this issue.

I didn't have a good or quick turn around. In fact I am still out of work (its been 24 days) and still on pain medication. I was hoping I could do this without dilaudid and stay on my low dose naltrexone but that wasn't the case.

The surgery to remove the toenail (I was drugged heavily and they ran ketamine during the procedure but they didn't use general anesthesia because it makes me so sick.) went well but the flare up is still raging.

I had a 5 day ketamine and lidocaine infusion inpatient and then was discharged. I spoke about the hospitalization here in my blog: (video) CRPS Ketamine Infusion – the invisible warrior

since then I have had to have a lumbar sympathetic block as a series of 5 to stop the flare. I have also had to use a wheelchair more. I have had people without CRPS tell me that having a toenail removed was painful for months so it is no wonder this was so painful for me.

I'm continuing on. Day by Day. Silly how something this small makes our lives flip upside down.

hugs to anyone dealing with this issue