I've had rsd for over 8 years and had a hysterectomy last June, where they hooked me up to a ketamine drip at the start of the operation, which I stayed on for 7 days, and I also had the morphine button for 3 days, and endones as needed. As a result, my pain levels stayed pretty low while I was in there and the surgery didn't affect my rsd.

Also I had a c/section with a spinal block 2.5 years ago (no ketamine) and that didn't worsen my rsd in the longterm, either. I did have a flare up after the operation and was on continual endones afterwards for about a month, but the rsd didn't spread or stay at that level long term.

If you can get your pain specialist to work with your other specialist you'll get the best outcome. For my hysterectomy, my pain specialist and his team were in charge of all my pain medications and so the nurses and other doctors had to answer to them, rather than my gynocologist. If I asked for 20mg of endone instead of 5mg, they gave it to me no questions asked, as they knew my pain is different to what you'd normally get after that operation.

I'm sure that all their preventative measures stopped my rsd from spreading or getting worse. I wouldn't have had the operation if I wasn't totally confident that they'd give me whatever pain relief I needed, and I'm very relieved and grateful it all went so well.

I hope it all goes well for you, too

x Kate