I have RSD in my neck/L arm for a few years now, but it has just been "officially" diagnosed. In addition to the classic burning pain there is funky color/skin changes down my arm and I have bouts of profuse sweating.

Within the last year, I have new issues that have me wondering if the RSD has spread. I don't get to see the pain clinic again until WC approves it (and I've been waiting 1.5 years (lawsuit pending)

1. tennis elbow on R side. No, not from playing tennis ! I attribute it to all the time I spend playing computer games, using just my R index finger, but R elbow is in "locked" position on edge of wing chair. Dull achy pain. Red blue splotches now on R upper arm too. When I sleep on my R side, I have my R arm outstretched......and I sweat just at the elbow area (wet spots on sheets to prove it !)

2. I had an umbilical hernia repair last year. Incision healed up, no problems or pain for 8 months, but now I get shooting "electric" zappers periodically....not constant. No skin changes. I don't think I'm sweating from my belly button

3. L hip bursitis....started almost one year ago I think because in bed I usually lay on my left side and when I sit in my chair I lean more on the L hip because I am crooking my neck to the right to help relieve the neck pain. The pain is deep and achy. There are no skin changes around my L hip, but I have noticed recently when I sleep on my left side, I sweat profusely from my L hip.......even when I'm not sweating from the L arm/neck area.

Can you have RSD spread even without the skin changes ?

The R elbow and L hip are achy....typically bone/muscle/tendon pain not burning nerve pain. Could it be that my whole sympathetic nervous system is just screwed up so it makes me sweat from wherever there is pain even though the RSD has not spread there ?

Any thoughts ?