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Originally Posted by SandyRI
Hi everyone,
I met with a new PM doc yesterday. When I told him that my last few SGB had helped with certain of my spreading symptoms, he explained that it was impossible for a SGB to impact any symptoms related to my legs and feet! Talk about embarrassed! He explained that often when patients start to feel better after a block in some areas where they are expected to feel better, they will also start to better in other areas that are in no way impacted by the block (like my feet!).
I KNOW that my feet were painful before the last block, I was really scared. I just find it so hard to believe that it was all in my head. And after I walked on them a lot they would go numb - that was NOT in my head, we all know what that numb feeling is with RSD. They were also freezing cold all the time. And my sneakers always felt like they were too tight so I would take them off. My legs used to bother me so I would sit on the end of my chair all the time. After my blocks I swear those symptoms went away for a while, and then I would feel them start to return in 2 or 3 weeks.
Other symptoms that would go away that WERE expected to were the really bad red rashes on my chest and neck and face. Plus most of my fingernails would start growing again on my right hand.
Has this ever happened to anyone else?
My new doc all wrote me a script for methodone (5 mg 3 x a day) for pain. That is a little freaky, but my NP friend told me it should be great for my pain and will have fewer side effects than all the percocet I'm currently taking.
Happy Friday!!
Sandy
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Hi Sandy,
I think a very good and sensible reason for the absence of your lower body symptoms after an upper body block is that the SGB helped your upper body vascular system as it is suposed to, thereby reducing the swelling and pressure in the tissues, and consequently relieving some of the pressure and symptoms related to that very same vascular pressure as well in the lower body..
What these doctors just don't get and we can feel, is that the vascular system IS conected throughout our
whole body so what they do to one area efects the rest.. This same vascular system seems to be one of the the prime spreading systems for RSD. So it works both ways aparently, and that to makes alot of sence dosn't it after all the sympathetic nerves run along side the veins and main arteries, the vascular system.
believe in yrself
Doc's r guessers
They can't feel it
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S