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Originally Posted by akgh
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!!!
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I too am wc (Dec 08) and this started in my left hand then up into my elbow and my shoulder started a few months ago. I use my right arm alot and am sure I am over compensating. That has started hurting the past wk, so much sometimes I have trouble picking up a water btl. I am afraid it is going to spread also. Everyone seems to think I have such a good attitude but they just don't see what it is doing to me. I have lost my job, hoping to get unemployment now since wc says i am mmi and cut off my benefits. Who is going to hire me when, in such a crappy economy, they can have someone healthy? I am a wife and mom and I don't expect my kids to understand but my husband could just a bit. He doesn't talk to me about it, when I try I feel like I am talking to a wall. We are so far behind in bills, I feel like it's my fault. I tell him all the time to write things down (ie;needed groceries)and he does'nt, then I feel guilty when I forget. He thinks that just helping out with dinner and dishes, we do have a dishwasher, that he is being supportive. I am on Lyrica 300mg, Cymbalta and a compound gel. I am always tired and am afraid to go higher on the lyrica that i will be too tired to function. I know I could be worse off and feel guilty complaing but I guess it just builds up. just