Karen,
Well, I also attribute my good health as far as flu & colds go to getting a flu shot every year. I have had one almost every year since hmmmmmm 1992 I think. The couple of years that I didn't get a flu shot I did end up with influenza & close to pneumonia. I coughed so hard one year from it that I broke a rib & let me tell you that was no picnic. I couldn't be bound up because I needed to keep coughing so I didn't end up with pneumonia. So ever since that incidient I get one every year. And I recommend most get a flu shot. But that is my opinion. And that is how the shot works for me. I also have had a pneumonia shot. I was disabled back then also but not because of RSD. That was because of a bad car wreck in 1991. I finally healed from that in 1997. That is a whole story in & of itself. I was dx'ed with Fibromyalgia in 1989 & it was determined a few years after that due to my history of pain to probably have been unlucky enough to have inherited it. Sjogren's was dx'ed in 2003. A few months before the burning pain of RSD hit me. I have actually had Sjogren's since about 1998. I had the first symptom then anyway. The others came on in other years after that. I do have osteopenia also in my hips. I too other than these pain syndroms am healthy. I also have an enlarged liver but they do not know what is causing it. It is healthy otherwise. No high BP, no heart problems etc.

Roz,
The people who have the problems you are speaking of, well I have no answer for them or for you either. Sorry. And I have no clue to it either. Maybe these things have just happened for some other reason.

DebbyV