Hi All,
I actually put my husband's symptoms in google and was quite surprised that Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy came up, I had never heard of it. He seems to have many of the symptoms, he had a partial hand fusion and carpel tunnel in August, all seemed to be going well until about late October when his shoulders began to freeze up, he put this down to maybe getting out of bed and doing things with his elbows, but they just got so bad. The scan came back that he had spurs but they said that should not be causing all the swelling and fluid. Then his other hand turn really strange, deformed and huge practically overnight. We expected a little deformity in the hand that was operated on, but the other one is strange. He used to have quite long slender fingers now they are big fat sausages. He had that x-rayed and nothing showed up. He is in excruciating pain, cannot sleep, walks around the block all night and he cannot sit or lay down. He is 58 years old but works out, well used to every day, so is quite fit. We now remember he has had something very similar many years he had an arthroscope on his knee, he thought that they lifted him off the operating table by the arms and ripped them. He is booked in for an injection on Friday and is going to the doctor tomorrow as he does not have any pain meds left, he was taking OxyContin. Sorry to be so long but my question is if the doctor does not take this any further and if he does not get better how do you suggest to a doctor that you may have something like RSD I know they must get fed up with people self diagnosing a lot of the time. Can this be something that can occur when one has an operation?
Cheers
Dee