dealingwithtos,
Everything you listed I dealt with way before I ever had RSD. Due to Fibromyalgia. Dxed with it in 1989. Had a hard time picking up little things, would drop things from half gallon of milk to pins. Would slide right thru my finger tips more or less. Numbness & pain in muscles, fingertips to toetips *LOL* Memory problems like really bad. I was 32 I believe when dxed with Fibro. Was decided I probably had been born with Fibro. My Mom used to describe how I didn't like cuddled or touched a whole lot as an infant, especially when I was sick. Now that doesn't sound like a normal infant does it??? I imagine I was in pain from touch & that is why I preferred to be left alone when ill especially. There were other things as a child that led the doctors to believe I have been suffering from Fibro all my life too. Then RSD came into my life & just made the pain so much worse. Today is a Fibro day. The pain meds that work on RSD do NOT work on the Fibro pain much at all. Sad isn't it??

Anyway I think pain causes so many of our problems whether it comes from TOS, RSD, Fibro, Sjogren's, arthritis. Doesn't matter. Our nerve responses don't work right, & that is that.

DebbyV