Hello,

Everyone's experience of RSD is unique, and everyone's bodies react to medicine differently, so you should of course always listen to your M.D. and to your own body. I just wanted to share my perspective, which is that during the course of my RSD nightmare, I discovered that I had rebound pain from the nerve blocks and pain medication and it wasn't until after weaning myself completely off all that junk that I really turned around and started feeling better. It took then about 6-months or a year of lots of physicial therapies & exercise before I considered myself to really be in complete remission. That's not to say I don't have RSD anymore, but it's no longer part of my daily life, just something that flares up when I am overly stressed physicially (such as illness) or emotionally.

Peace and healing,
Ariel