I looked at what he said in just the opposite way as you did Lisa, I saw it as a comfirmation that the disease is so debilitating that it does make most people have to get on disability. I would hate for him to have said everyone could work like she does with it.

As I told you, I do have a good friend that is a nurse that works with it and I also know a lady that owns her own insurance company and she has it but she sats her own hours.

I think also a lot of people that have it also deal with other problems as well such as Fibro and the injuries that brought it on. We also seem to develop other problems easily such as Interstital Cystitis and Fibro and depression

My depession is just that. I deal with major major depression and it came before the RSD with other medical problems and childhood problems. The illness just adds on to it.

It is good that a person can work, I would say it does help them a lot with depression but I also think it can make illnesses worse as time goes on. I feel a person can overwork themselves and they just reversed that survey where years ago they thought that more a person worked the better off they are.
Bill said he saw it on the news where a new survey showed the opposite.

I understand where you have to work to keep insurance and to have an income and that is with a lot of people. I went for years without any income and I know how that is. There are a lot of people on here that struggled for livelyhood until they got their SS or SSI. It's a choice we each have to make in our own way.

As for the heat issue. I also have cold part where the RSD is but I'm sitting here sweating like Jose said. I just never noticed anyone saying they were dealing with this before and It's interesting that it does seem to come with the RSD.

Thanks for all of the input.
Ada