I just had this talk with an emailer. I went through so damn many Drs. trying to find out what was wrong with me, that I thought I had covered all of them in Colorado. I use to think CO had all the worse Drs. but they are widespread that's for sure.

I think it goes back to it being a illness that requires long term care, hard core meds, and high cost. IF the Drs. acknowledge it then they will have to try and help with it and they don't want to live with the patient basically. You have to be seen regularly to get the meds that you need. That's the law so they have to abide by that. It's like someone said on here, the Dr. said they'd have to marry them if they acknowledged the RSD and put them on narcotics.

I find it hard to believe that there is that much ignorance out there about RSD in the medical field.

As far as just being left alone and living with it. I feel that is close to impossible. It leaves a person to the possibility of depression and suicide if they don't have help getting the pain level down to where you can live with it.

There are good Drs. out there but with the RSD issue they seem to be so scattered. You just have to keep looking. It doesn't have to be a PM or a Neurologist. It can be any Physician that wants to help.

Ada