Hi all, I am writing this for my wife. She is 56 and has had RSD for 8 years, starting in her left hand from a simple finger injury, progressed up her arm into the shoulder. Last year she fell and tore the tendon in her left knee and that has never really healed so we attribute the RSD to maybe taking over in the leg also.

She is Type 2 diabetic and has had eye surgery for cataracts or glaucoma once before. Now she has to go to the eye doctor tomorrow (Tuesday) and is scared to death that the any surgery she may have to have (probably have to have) will activate the RSD in other new areas or step it up a notch where she hurts already. Her hyper sensitivity is usually a 9 or 10.

She is a tough lady, refusing any treatments, except when the pain becomes unbrearable, she will take a hydrocodone, but that is rare that she will take one. She does not want to become a drug user.

Is there any evidence that anyone knows of that could link surgery to the eye that may aggrevate the current RSD locations?

Thanks in advance from her loving husband, Rick