I wanted to clear this point up. A bone scan is not positive proof because often, more than 50% of the time, rsd will not show up on a bone scan. I read a study done awhile back on the accuracy of bone scans and rsd. The "best" time after getting rsd to show up on a scan is in the first 3 months.

After that it's a 50/50 chance anything at all will show up. It is why doctors, well the smart ones anyway, do not use this as anything other than a diagnostic tool and will not take a "negative rsd" scan to mean the patient definitely does not have rsd. They know it only means the patient isn't showing bone changes anymore after the initial blood flow issues which are what usually cause positive scans.

I'm a good example. Having my first scan done at 5 months and it showed no rsd only the healing fracture in my kneecap. The next scan done exactly a year later, I had full body at that time, this scan was a full body one....showed absolutely nothing at all. I still had rsd and thankfully at the time they were ordered the docs still dx me with rsd despite their behavior shortly thereafter because of work comp.

Hugs,

Karen