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Originally Posted by aussiemom
Hi
Please forgive a newbies dumb questions, I may not be on the right board! A bit of history on me, I've had 4 level cervical fusion, and my scapular area gives me fits. My entire spine is a mess. I have confirmed arthritis in several joints.
So on a recent visit to my PCPs office, I told him I hurt all over, my skin sometimes hurts. Nothing specific, not screaming take me to the ER type pain, no rhyme or reason to it. He says maybe I have fibro.
An hour later, I'm at the pain doc. Tell her the same thing. She says difuse arthritis. Try to search them both, came up with RA or fibro.
What are the main symptoms of RSD? Lurking here, what people are posting makes more sense to me than what the docs say. How is it Dx'd? Trial & error?
As for meds, I can't do the Lyrica types, random drug tests at work prevent any narcotics, except for 1/2 vicoden once in a while, neurontin, too much brain fog. Basically, I'm on a very low dose of Cymbalta and a lot of tears.
Am I at the right place?
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I am new to RSD so cannot comment much but I am not new to scapular pain. Where is your shoulder/scapaular pain? Can you describe it? I only ask because my RSD is caused by a rare form of shoulder impingement which is underdiagnosed. Mine does radiate to my neck but the pain is sourced to the shoulder.
Its called a suprascapular impingement. Mine was finally dx'd by MRI, ultrsound and EMG. Unfortunatley it took so long the shoulder has developed RSD from an injury and a bad shot in the injured area.
Right now I am on Ultam ER and use a triple numbing cream in the area.