Hi Lori Lee,

You are very fortunate to be able to get this treatment so early in your condition. Don't be affraid! If you respond well to these blocks than it will certainly confirm the diagnosis. In that case you may want to seriously consider having a continous peridural anastesia for 1 week. This is the "gold standard" treatment used in Germany and they have very good rates of recovery for newly diagnosed RSD cases with that treatment, I wished I had been offered it early in my diagnosis.

Personally I had many lumbar sympathetic blocks in the beginning, I always did very well by them. I stopped having them when I started to have IV lidocane treatments, less invasive than the blocks.

I'm very sorry to hear you are going through all this but want welcome to the board.

Good luck with your treatment.

MsL