I apologize, but the initial posting may be long. I live in Florida, but in 2001 went to Missouri to attend my son's graduation from Army Basic Training. While there, and asleep, I was bit on the neck by a brown recluse spider (yes we did see it). Up to this point I was healthy, worked out every other day and had a career. Instead of the venom attacking my skin, it attacked my sympathetic nervous system. From this I developed RSD first, then CPS, then several years later fibromyalgia, followed by RLS. During this time I also had back surgery due to an injury, have really bad headaches, horrible leg cramps (mostly at night), and put on 75-100 pounds from the medication. Oh and I went through menopause during all this too. My RSD went from one part of my body, to full body. You could draw a line down the middle of me and my left side is more severe than my right side.

I sympathize with the stub toe. When that happens to me I come very close to passing out. And we won't even talk about paper cuts. I really want to lose weight, but am not sure how to do it since exercising is an excruciating proposition for me. I did put in a pool. I never knew you could get out of a pool and be sweating.

Ok...enough. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions...