I just said this to my husband this morning! It has been such a weird summer and fall with the strange weather activity where I live. This one story is the craziest pain/weather episode that I've experienced in my three years with RSD..

It was a beautiful end of summer day. They were calling for storms later in the evening, but I didn't have my usual pain/swelling/achy/burning...I took my dogs outside and they were playing with each other when out of nowhere a black cloud started forming over the river near my house. I took them inside and prepared myself with a few pain pills and a xanax. When the storm hit, it hit hard! It was like someone just started punching me with a basball bat and burning my leg with a hot poker while pushing it into my leg bone. I couldn't walk or stand up; I felt like I was going to vomit. My son said that my face was white and I looked like I was going to pass out. This is when the video camera would have come in handy.

With all that said, I certainly have kept a close eye on any weather activity in our area (even though my body usually tells me first, but not that time!!)...when I first was diagnosed my neuro told me NOT to get on the internet and look anything up about RSD, (for fear of me developing symptoms by the power of suggestion.) That was in 2008 and when I couldn't stand it any longer, I found this forum and it really saved my life and helped so greatly with my mental health. If I had't found it, I would still be lying on my couch, in the dark, begging my husband to admit me to the mental ward!