Hi Ali
Thanks for getting back! I'm sorry you've had to be brave for so long--I sometimes feel bitter for having gotten this at 18, though I know it doesn't help things at all.
I think I will try out that diet. I do my own "stress loading" with grocery bags walking back from the store, which sometimes flares me but is usually manageable. But yes, send me the exercises when you get a chance.
I didn't have luck with a sympathetic block, just a day of really scary swelling (I overreacted to that and am STILL paying emergency room bills!), but that might be because I got it seven years after the onset injury.
(Btw, I developed CRPS after going for a run in inadequate shoes. No injury, just a run! Still pretty weird to contemplate.)