Originally Posted by Brokenwings

Hi Lisa--yep--ALL EIGHT symptoms, and they "MUST be CONCURRENT".
Never before has such STRINGENT criteria been applied--and this is especially aggregious if you have a WC claim in California. Thanks to SB899 and all the "cost cuts", diagnosis and treatment must adhere to AMA Guidelines and ACOEM Guidelines. IWs who have been dx'd with RSD by their Primary Treating Physician are inevitably sent to either an AME or QME, who will, of course, say that the IW does NOT have RSD....so the IWs treatment plans get YANKED by the IC...

NOWHERE in the scientific literature, EXCEPT the AMA, does a patient have to have all 8 concurrent symptoms; just symptoms "AT SOME TIME", because, as we have all found out, the symptoms can "wax and wane", etc., and this is especially true if we have been FORTUNATE enough to get some APPROPRIATE TREATMENT!