Thanks Finz, I think I'm going to follow your suggestion and just see another doctor although it's not one doctor debating about diagnosis. The first 2 WC doctors say they don't know what is wrong with me but say it's not TOS because the tests are negative so I went to a doctor on my own and he says it's not TOS and that he thinks it's RSD and wants to do a bone scan but since I don't have health insurance that's out of the question at this time. Personally I don't think I have RSD because my symptoms just aren't consistent with that. The color & temperature changes in my hand are dependent on position as is the minor swelling in my hand. My symptoms are consistent with TOS which was originally brought up by 3 of the physical therapists that I saw.
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Originally Posted by finz
There is objective data that can confirm RSD.....the skin color changes, swelling, excessive sweating, etc. Those go with the subjective complaint of pain seemingly out of proportion to the original injury. RSD usually occurs in the extremeties....unless something like TOS sets it off in the trunk.
Although TOS is a diagnosis of exclusion in terms of diagnostic tests, there are groups of symptoms that unite us.......Pain between the neck and shoulderblade in back and under the clavical in front, numbness and tingling down the arm in an ulnar nerve distribution, etc
If your doctor is debating which one that you have.............I'd get another doctor. Aside from pain, the other symptoms are very different.....and they are not mutually exclusive, some of us have both
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