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Originally Posted by AintSoBad
My brother emailed to tell me about an article on RSD/CRPS in the latest issue of Neurology now, magazine.
Written by Dr Debra Gordon, M.S., it's interesting and well written.
Several things struck me.
67% of us consider suicide.
Avoid Nerve Blocks! They can cause even more damage! Wow!
A copy of this should be kept with you, and might become your "pal".
Especially when visiting a doctor who isn't familiar enough with RSD.
There is also a "black box" mention (not the negative kind) of "At least 20 clinical trials" including Dr. Schwartzman's in Philly. He is the gentleman who diagnosed me after 7 years of agonizing, frustrating pain and emotions. Which, of course, continue.
Only thing I found about the story somewhat annoying was the "necessary happy ending". It just doesn't end that way often enough.
I'm going to make a copy of it, scan it into my computer.
Pete
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Thanks for mentioning this article Pete. I read it also along with 2 others in medical journals this month. It seems as though the medical community is becoming educated to CRPS/RSD. I recently purchased a book from Medifocus about RSD and it had some links to abstracts. Most of them were quite recent. In fact, I went to the hospital library (I work in a hospital) to see if we had those journals. We had one so I copied it and ordered the other two articles.
Since my diagnosis is only 3 months old I was going to have a nerve block late this month. But I canceled it because of what I read. I'm kind of scared to do anything.
My scanner is not working but I'll try to see if I can pass along these articles if anyone is interested.
Sally