I've had RSD for 8 1/2 years and found this site through a google alert.

It's interesting that scar tissue is mentioned.

I'm coming to wonder if this disease might be a bacterium which lives primarily in scar tissue (and nerves). It achieves a quorum in an accident and primarily lives in the nerves and reproduces on the skin. The shock achieved in an accident and resultant sustained changes alert the bacteria to a quorum. It travels to different areas in different individuals and tends to spread. It probably lives in the finger or toe nails as part of its life cycle. It attacks older people and women because they have more scar tissue. There may actually be more than one disease and/ or more than one bacteria causing RSD.

I've only been treating it this way very briefly and have mixed results.

There is not great supporting evidence except circumstantial and experiential. There is an irregular apparent skin infection with a three to ten day cycle.

I'm interested in opinions. I've been desperate for years and this is hardly my craziest idea.