I feel the pain causes us to be cranky. It's so intense at times, we can barely live with ourselves much less anyone else.
I can remember how cranky and stressed I was when this first started. I think too the fact that it takes us forever to find Drs. that actually want to help us or know how makes us even more cranky and it makes us feel more alone. I am better these days with crankiness but boy was I a mess when the RSD came on?

I do get stressed every once in awhile now but not as bad. I am in councelling also and that helps. I can talk to my Dr. about what is bothering me and he helps me accept it or realize it's not the big deal I am making out of it. He always told me that I could take my anger out on him and then go home and treat my family good. I did that enough. I would also get angry at him because I felt we weren't getting anywhere at dealing with my medical problems. What I learned is that getting RSD calmed down to where we can live with it to a certain point is a long road.

I never dealt with WC but I dealt with Social Security and to me it was just as bad. It takes years at times to get too.

People that doesn't deal with cronic pain doesn't understand it and when most of us look normal that have RSD then they can't see what causes our pain.

Hopefully for you, you will find that right Dr. that will help you get the pain under control to a point where you can live with it and then the stress will go down too.

Ada