Hi, BL! It's nice to meet you! Welcome to the NeuroTalk Forums. It sounds like you are having a lot of problems there. I've begun to think that it's pretty common for family members to find it hard to understand what we are going through. Maybe it's because they've seen us the same way all our lives, and the change is hard on them. Who knows? My father and two siblings still say it's probably in my head...after seven years. I hope your RSD will become more controllable, and you won't always feel so bad. One thing which one my doctors told me which always sticks in my mind is that anyone who is sick for over a year has to be depressed, too, so I'm going to give you a link to the depression forum. Good luck and best of wishes, BL!

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum37.html