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Originally Posted by CanadianPain
My husband has had sympathetic nerve blocks (MANY), spinal therapy, acupuncture and the doctors also tried removing the fluid from his leg but it refilled as quickly as it drained. He seems to have trouble recalling all the different treatments but I know there were lots. Unfortunately I could not attend any treatments as they occured in a city 5 hours away from where we live. Workers Comp had him in the city for weeks on many seperate occasions, going through tests and procedures. Every treatment done to him caused more pain without any benefit. Eventually, treatment stopped and now he only sees the specialists in the city once every couple of years and his GP every two months. While his leg/foot is extremely swollen, he has not had any blood clots (knock on wood) and the infections have been infrequent fortunately. The current infection is impacting the big toe only which looks a little more unsightly than before but the rest of his foot/leg have looked like this since surgery, right after the initial accident. Take care!
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Hi CanadianPain, so sorry for what you're going thru. I've been very close to that myself so can really empathize. Fortunately, treatment brought my swelling down. I had the spinal nerve blocks,4, a massage therapy called 'milking' that really helped, and one of the big problems was Lyrica also whicch was causing swelling. I switched to Topomax instead with allmost instant results. I was lucky enouth to find the one in a million drs and pts that actually knew about rsd and the special pt really helped also. Now I'm in VA with a new spread to my hip, almost out of meds and in desperate need of a new pm dr and can't find one. At any rate, I hope some of that is stuff you can try.