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Old 12-29-2007, 10:44 PM
Imahotep Imahotep is offline
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There are very low correlations except for pain and this might be explained by greatly reduced activity during the trial. I (and many others) have pain primarily as a result of using the affected extremity or overdoing things.

3% of RSD patients don't experience pain. If my only problem were pain then I'd not always have much of a problem. I tend to lose consciousness when pain gets up to about level 8 so it's hard to imagine suffering such high level pain all the time. I also have a great deal of difficulty believing that RSD has a significant psychological component or real world similarities to those with conversion disorders. I was not under a great deal of stress when I contracted this and it's real enough that a heart attack has seemed preferable.

I find the whole thing a little incomprehensible and insulting. Thanks for posting it anyway, though.
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