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Originally Posted by buckwheat
Hi Tayla and Angel,
If I recall rightly you are both RN's. I am just a hairdresser but I have seened alot of people with severe nerve injuries. But they don't have RSD.
So what do you think is causing the spread and nerve damage? Hugs, Roz
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Hi Roz,
In my years of nursing I had not heard of this diisease until I got it.
My first thoughts were to blame the accident, the fractures that weren't healing for the pain.
For some reason it is only a small group of people who do have an inciting event, remembering that RSD has come about from insect bites and paper cuts, who do develop this problem. Something triggers a pain response that simply won't shut down long after the initial injury has healed. This is why neurologists say that it is simply that the brain remembers the pain then can't rewire itself to normal again due to dysfunction of the sympathetic nervous system.
I reckon the person who can determine why one person will respond in the form of RSD and others just flick back to normal again will be the saviour of all of us with RSD/CRPS.
Cheers
Tayla
