Oh wow, thank you so much for your responses. As I sit here reading this I came to tears. It's just such a relief to hear that others go through the same thing. Hannah1234 I thought I was just losing it. Sometimes the strangest things just get under my skin, and it is usually when I am having an issue with the RSD, like sometimes the pain lessens and it just feels so good and then it ramps up again. Boy, believe me sometimes I do bite them off, chew them up, then if I'm in a good enough mood I'll spit them out! When I feel that way I usually tell my family I'm just in a mood and I don't know why so they give me my breathing space. It really doesn't help that I used to have a job, granted it was only 2 days a week, but at least it kept me out of the house. Now they have decided to challenge the work restrictions and try to force me but I refused so I am being terminated. All that aggravation doesn't help much. During the course of this it caused severe tendonitis in my right arm from having to use it all the time when the work restrictions initially stopped me from using the left arm at all. I am terrified that I will develop the RSD in that side too, as I see some signs of it from time to time, mostly in the color change and coolness of it. I guess in the meantime I'll just be thankful I have found a place where people understand this nasty disease (which by the way, the workers comp insurance adjustor says I have NO right to be angry in the least about it). Thanks to all!!!