Yes, it really is a gamble, but I remember thinking, ANYTHING to beat this RSD. The first series of blocks helped not at all (they always put me out), and this was from the top guy in the city.

So I went to Southern Cal RSD specialist, and when he decided to try a lumbar block, I handed him a script to read to me while I was out. "A script?" he said. I had written it out already, and it said something like, "You're going to beat this RSD. Hopealot's body, you can heal from this, and this block is going to help you. No more RSD for you, okay? Use this to heal." I told him he had to read it in my ear with feeling, and he agreed to.

When I awoke, I asked the nurse if he'd read it. She said yes. "With feeling?" I asked. "No, not with feeling, but he did read it."

A month and a half later, the detested cold feeling in my RSD foot for at least a year left me.

Jcrew, if you have a block or block series and read Love Medicine and Miracles by Bernie Seigel (where I got the idea of healing under anaesthesia) and write a script for your Dr. Not anything I would normally have done, but desperation brings a lot in a person