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Old 06-04-2008, 10:20 PM
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Having talked with anesthesia I understand what happened now and why. The paralytic drug being used succinyl choline (or "sux" as it's often referred to) does have a known side effect of muscle soreness. Those of us who are or were athletes can expect to have that effect compounded by the fact that we have more muscle tissue and its denser as well. The RSD represents yet another level of compounded effect when it further magnifies a new pain signal. So you end up with a more severe case of muscle soreness than other folks will under both of those conditions, but it's not anything that is ever going to escalate into a potentially life-threatening anaphylactic reaction (which was my fear here).

Bottom line is that instead of going 3 times per week I'll probably only be able to go twice or maybe even once a week to give my body enough time to recover in between sessions. So I'll head back in Friday AM for my next treatment.
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