DP,

This is the only forum I belong to and I am not very brave especially when it comes to pain. It must be another Barb.

Just to give you a little info, a stress fracture can happen from bone thinning as from osteoporosis, or in athletes from over use, such as shin splints or by poor diet.

You said you had uptake in your toe from your scan, Dr. Stanton-Hicks says this is a clear indication of RSD. Please don't take this as my saying it, just the Doc, I don't want to have everyone come down on me.

You said when the nerve is injected (believe me when I say,"you don't want your nerve hit at all", I had it happen once and it makes RSD pain seem like a walk in the park) and that isn't what is injected it is the area around the nerves and during a block this gets flooded with medication and if you have RSD it should give you relief for a period of time, everyone is different as to how long your relief lasts.

What makes you think you need more than one Doc? If you are satisfied with your PM Doc and you have a primary care doc why would you need to pay another doc?

Good luck with your block on Thursday and hopefully your relief will last longer with each block and you will go into remission for good. It would be wonderful to know someone that actually went into permanent remission.