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Originally Posted by Jo*mar
RSD... does the arm swell and have skin color changes {red, blue, mottled}
hypersensitive to touch, even breezes or clothing ?
I was thinking it might be thoracic outlet syndrome with your heavy work and adding in computer uses.
both our RSD & TOS forums have a good amount of stickys to explore
Maybe shappy already mentioned those. 
A couple of our TOS members did have frozen shoulder over the years..
I think the constant upper body spasms play a part there.
hope you can get a handle on it soon, or at least the pain reduced for now... |
I have asked about TOS but all the docs have ruled it out. Doesn't fit.
RSD was brought up b/c of the hypersensitivity and the swelling. I've been asked about temperature changes but since I also have Reynaud's, it's a difficult question to answer. From what I've read, the temperature change only has to be a degree or two. I've always had mottled skin in my forearm but the neuro says that's due to MS and spinal involvement. (That was the clinical trial doc.)
Hypersensitivity also goes with MS when I am having an exacerbation so I just wrote it off to that, at least this last time. That's why I didn't think anything of it when I did the steroids. But when my arm got worse after 3 days of IVSM, it was obvious to me that what was wrong with my arm was not MS. But now it is hypersensitive ALL the time. And not just my arm, my shoulder, my pecks, my shoulder blade, my arm pit, my neck.
When the PT guy mentioned RSD yesterday, yes, I visited the RSD forum last night. Did a lot of reading. As with everything, some of the symptoms fit, but not all. But as the PT guy said, I am not presenting typical FS. I just laughed and said I don't present typical anything. The MS I have is not typical. Nothing I do is typical. He said it sounds like I am going to be a challenge. Ya think?
We had chinese food for dinner on Saturday night. I love fortune cookies. My fortune read "good ideas will spring forth naturally from your mind in this coming week." Since PODH doesn't like fortune cookies, I naturally opened the second one which read, "Tomorrow will be a five star day for you. Enjoy." That would have been Sunday. The Steelers won the Super Bowl! Yippee!! Something went right on Sunday!