Hi Tracey,
You have a lot of symptons I relate to.I don't know if all rsd comes immediately after an injury-some people never remember a particular incident and definetly most of us aren't diagnosed for a long long time. I was misdiagnosed and then changed Drs, actually flew black to where had lived before and went to sports injury orthopedic hand specialist. My hand has partial use. Had a neuclear med test. It showed bone loss and deformity. It still gets bright red touching hot or even cold water or a glass. It has a slight shinny gloss look to my hands and bottom of feet. They speech with grasping for words or looking for the right word or starting the sentence over goes with rsd. The limbic part of brain is affected. Recall and short term memory is affected. I have to write things down or I would never remember it. Has seriously affected our business, I miss appointments with people wanting a new coffee service. We have delivery vans deliver coffee and condiments and clean the commercial equipment we loan to them. I really miss the involvement I used to have. One of the drivers is driving me around tomorrow to some car dealerships and businesses. RSD is a autonomic disorder- and that affects circulation and blood pressure high and low. Heart can be involved and other organs. If you can take a couple days and looked under RSD introductions and experiences and read them- learn so much from others and then compare with you. Everyone is different, but there are certain commonalities we all have.Please let me know how everything goes. Loretta