Hi Dubious,

Very good thought, I think you are right!

I don't know why I didn't think of it myself. I had many many lumbar sympathetic blocks in the beginning of my diagnosis and I had good results from them overall. I stopped getting them when my doctor switched me to the lidocaine infusions. My foot has been going ice cold lately and the only way it seems that I can raise the internal temp is by dipping it in hot wax. LSB's used to warm my foot immediately.

I'll be getting a bone scan this coming week to check to see if everything is ok following last years screw removals. I still have 1 screw that they couldn't get out and that is where the pain is radiating from. It was too solidly wedged in with and they didn't want to fiddle with it. The ongoing saga of how I got screwed by an orthopedic surgeon.

Thanks a million, I feel like there is hope again.

MsL