My ortho surgeon said my RSD developed because i didn't take any pain meds after my ankle surgery..which consisted of reattaching two major ligaments and removing two hunks of bone that the ligaments had pulled away from the fibula.

Granted, it was hell to not have anything to help with pain,(my choice) but I thought I could bear it and I did..It was horrible. (pain meds make me sick)....(but I'm taking Neurontin now....)

I wonder why he didn't tell me that if I didn't take pain meds, I would be susceptible to RSD....he never mentioned RSD..like many of us I had never heard of it until the monster disease started chomping on my foot....( besides the pain, I now get burn in both feet/legs..) IF he had told me I could develop RSD if I don't take pain meds, I would have taken them!!!!

My question is, why did folks who did take pain meds after surgery develop RSD anyway, despite the help of the pain meds!! Is the doc's theory wrong?

Pain, pain go away........

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