Thank you for responding

What does the 'internal' pain feel like? Our outer skin has the nerve endings which bring on the awful burning pain....but i'm totally in the dark about the internal issues. Is it like bone pain? deep, aching....
Or more like internal organs?

KeepSmilin i'm so sorry the SCS didn't work for you. It's quite a big deal getting one. Would it help your pain if it were removed i wonder? Probably would further aggravate maybe.

As i read thru all the stickies it seems most folks attribute their RSD to some sort of injury or incident and then it spreads from there.....
Mine just doesn't seem to fit any certain 'mold'. At the time of my onset in both legs i was recovering from a hand fracture surgery......it was within 4 or 5 months that my leg pain set in. The hand healed just fine and never had any problem with it since. So, it just seems so confusing about the legs....?
I know there is 'referred pain' and 'phantom limb pain', ........

Maybe i just simply THINK too much....

I'll shut up and get the trial implant....if it works great. If not.....then i'll cross that bridge when i get there.

It gets to be a lonely life tho.....
I've turned away from most of any 'social life' that i used to have.

This forum IS my social life....