Thanks Dee! If I hear anything else about AZ dr.'s I'll let you know and I'll certainly inquire when I'm bak there sometime this fall for some procedures. I love my pelvic pain specialist Dr. Hibner and it would be great if I could find someone in AZ that would be willing to work with him esp. because I need more surgery with him in 2012. At St. Joseph's the anesthesia people do 5 day marcaine epidurals for their RSD patients. They started one on me back in September but I also had a ONQ pain pump going at the same time from an obturator decompression surgery and got some toxicity so they had to pull the epidural after 24 hours. Even though it was for such a short time it did help my legs alot. My legs are quite sensitive to heat and for about 3 weeks I didn't get any heat rashes in the shower and the pain in my legs was markedly improved for about 2 months.

Since I'm only a 45 minute flight to NYC I think I will look into the group at HSS.

Again thanks for all the posting.