I have both cold and Hot RSD... and i am in my 5th year of my RSD. My foot gets cold and blue/purple and yes i have severe pain... and then i can get hot RSD where it goes bright red and blotchy adn very warm if not hot to the touch...and yes i still have severe pain.. When i dont have bluish/purple color foot and leg i have red and blotchy leg and foot. I have a severe inversion of my foot as a result of RSD attacking my tendons in my foot and it is getting worse and i still go between hot and cold all the time..My doc said that its all bc of the RSD and it being controlled by the brain... it can go from one extreme to the othere and happen in mins. I also as you konw say a vasc surgeon and he said the same thing!! its a total trade mark of RSD!!!!

I think you are VERY wrong in what you said that if you have hot RSD that you prob dont have it..how can you say that when alot of us on this board have this same stuff going on.. and tell it to a newbie too... come on!!

~Amber

In fact.. at the top of the board theere is a link with pics of RSD... there is one of my foot and leg when i was haveing HOT RSD and was warm to the touch..i will post a pic of my blue and purple foot just to prove it that i have both.. and alot of us do also!!