I'm going on 6 years now. It started in left knee/lower leg/foot. It spread to all 4 limbs,hips and tops of shoulders in 11 months, and in the past year and half I guess it's been or so, it's gone into upper back and lower back.

I was made by work comp to get 1 block, a lumbar since it was my leg, and well....it didn't turn out good for me. I was in agony from the neck down for 2 months without a break. All it did for the 1st couple of hours was bring the temp of my leg up to "normal" and made the color of my skin "normal". Then, like a switch being flipped, it went straight back to freezing cold skin and that nice purply-pinkish-bluish color it had been since the rsd began.

You said you got the block right in your ankle. That sounds like a bier block to me. I tend to think of a sympathetic block as being a lumbar (in the lower back) or a stellate ganglion (in the neck). I never looked at any other kinds but I know people here have had just about all kinds!

Hugs,

Karen