Thanks for the lively debate!

Perhaps when someone investigates the one thing that is common to all the body systems that rsd affects (skin,muscle, bone, blood vessels, and nerves) we will get closer to what the cause for rsd is. It may well be that that there is no "one" cause but indeed a soup mix of causes; then maybe it's one cause but in a mix of things making up the soup. Maybe trigger is the word to use. But even then, I think ok we all have cancer cells in our body so i read but not everyone gets it. One's immune system seems to keep it in check. I have a benign tumour but I wonder what set it off really, what made it grow to where if it isn't kept in check it can be lifethreatening. Maybe everyone has the potential for rsd but only some get it because of a "something" that triggers it. Maybe there's more than one trigger.

In any case, it's good to see spirited debate.

I see some "truth" in all explanations offered here, but I am not convinced by either the rsd-IRI one or the nerve one by themselves.

All the best,
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