Originally Posted by ddwine

Hi,
I was diagnosed with RSD three months ago and have also experienced Muscle Spasms. I asked my doctor to prescribe a muscle relaxant for this as its waking me up at night. The weird thing is that it's my leg that is going into spasms not the original injury site which is my wrist/hand. The only thing that seems to be helping me is massage therapy, self hypnosis and a combination of Gabapentin and natural supplements. I thought I was doing better after a few weeks on the Neurontin (Gabapentin) and tried to go back to work (I have a cleaning business) and YIKES, I almost fell out of bed at 4:00 a.m. when I tried to get up to get some warm milk. My leg almost collapsed. My problem is that if I don't work, I dont make money for the massage and the medicine that is helping (I don't have insurance - go George W.) So if anyone would like to discuss the early symptoms and treatments that are helping (me) I would love to chat.