I started this thread in February of last year. Since then it has been confirmed that not only did my RSD spread but it was also the culprit for almost all of my new symptoms (the others being caused by the meds the doctors were putting me on and off of like crazy people). Haven't seen the neurologist I was talking about since last April I think it was...nor my primary doctor or the pain management doctor I was seeing at the time. I think back to all the runarounds I got from the docs back then and it makes me so very angry. Reading my responses from 2011, I see that I was way too quick to try and defend and make excuses for doctors. Not the case anymore. Quite frankly...if they don't know what they are talking about then they should not make comments like he made...plain and simple. Whether his field or not, he was giving a patient bad information and if I had stayed with him I don't think I would have ever gotten proper treatment for the condition that I really DO have. Moron is right...which my new doctor confirmed when I told her that he was the neurologist I saw. Apparently he told several of her patients in the past that there was no hope, that they would die or never get better, all neurological things. They went and got second opinions and recovered or managed to live many many more years. I tell you...doctors like that are SO dangerous.