Karen -

You misunderstand me, or rather I understood you in the first place. It is I who believes, once one analyses all of the causality going into heart attacks via pro-inflammatory cytokines, that RSD can indeed be fatal.

With all respect, I see the alternative position as indistinguishable from asserting that smoking 3 packs a day won't kill you: it will only give you cancer or a heart attack.

Mike