No No! Not you ladies! I'm talking about the doctors once again. We/Us Guys, Men, Males, what have you seem to get a bad rap in the RSD/CRPS department alot. Now I know you ladies think - oh boy here he goes whining and whining, but it's true. Take a guy like me for instance. Here I am 6'5" tall and weighing in at just under 250 lbs. Now I look a little intimidating to some - Maybe, maybe not. Who knows. Now here I am walking into a Neuros Office or whoever complaining of Chronic Pain. "It hurts Doc I Tell Ya"! Now this Doctor who we'll call Dr. Dork steps back and takes a long look at "Big Ole" me and thinks to himself "What A Freaking Baby"! "He Needs To Suck It Up". Why do I say this? Well today I got my hands on a medical record from one of my Neuros from back in 2000 and that is exactly what he wrote. Now I am sure he never would have expected me to see that, but since I am going through Disability, I am seeing all kinds of things. I was SHOCKED!

Plus I have read recently that of course RSD/CRPS is more common in Women than Men but I also read that it is more difficult to detect and diagnose in Men. So I'm thinking that unless I am crawling into the Doc's Office I'm what? LYING???? Please!!!!! I would rather run naked through a thorn grove than to ever consider trying to deceive to convince someone that I have something like this if in fact I didn't. So for all you guys out there with RSD/CRPS believe me I truly understand the difficulties we face everytime we walk into the Doc's Office. I am by no means minimizing the effects of RSD/CRPS on Women and I truly do understand the h**l you all go through as well. But there still is substantial differences between Men and Women regardless of how we came to get RSD there is still substantial differences in the diagnosing and treatments between Men and Women with RSD/CRPS. But the one thing I feel quite sure of is that there is absolutely NO difference in the amount of pain we endure every single moment of every single day of our lives!!!! - My hat is off to you all.