I'm not sure if it's the same thing or not (probably not) but I had an issue with bleeding under the nail of my big toe on my RSD foot. It DID get infected...though I don't think that it started out that way because at first it just hurt but after 2 months of being not sure what to do about it and it just getting worse and worse I finally went to the doctor. They ended up taking the nail off...felt tons better after they did. It didn't seem to affect the RSD at all...but I can't say what it might do to anyone else. What I do know is that just taking antibiotics didn't help. So the only option was to take the nail off. If I had done it sooner I probably would have saved myself a whole lot of pain...but I was worried about the RSD and thought I could just ignore it.