I spoke to my daughter about her pain meds and I am now monitoring them. We are working with the pain doctor to get them where she is in less pain, but not a zombie. She is still in some pain, but is so much more alert and part of the family.

She had blisters that appeared on one of her arms (she has RSD in both of them) and her arm was swollen and discolored. We went to urgent care, ER, our family doctor and finally a dermatologist. The dermatologist finally told us it was from RSD and was from the tremendous amount of swelling in that arm and the fluid needing somewhere to go so blisters start to form. He gave us cortisone and the blisters are doing much better. Her arm is still very swollen. They are doing a nerve block tomorrow in hopes that it will help stop the RSD from progressing. Her contract at her job will end on 3/24 so she will not have insurance after that so they wanted to get the nerve block done ASAP. The dermatologist said since she has tried most of the west medical treatments that we should start researching eastern medicine to see if anything helps there.

Our family doctor is in total agreement in putting her on disability. Thanks for all your postings, they have helped me so much.