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Florida worker comp is a real beast, having had the previous govenors in their pockets. :(

You can refuse anything.
You will suffer consequences if you refuse. (They will cry you aren't complying with medical advice, and can threaten your entire claim.)
You might suffer consequences if you comply.

I don't understand their reasoning behind providing surgery without other options ... they generally deny and delay for years and years first, too.

Second opinions --by their doctors-- won't do you any good imo. They do what the insurance company says to do. Have you researched this on the internet? Do you have a pain doctor to inquire of this?

(((hug))) I think the sympathectomy for RSD is not the original use for it.

Take your time. You've waited this long.

I have RSD and neuro TOS.

They are not the same at all.

RSD is when my skin gets all red and hurts like the worst sunburn and sometimes blisters will come out.

TOS - well, there's a load of symptoms there and I have had my rib out and I don't know a single patient who's been cured, but having the rib out gives the nerves some room when they swell. The main symptoms of TOS are pain, hand pain, loss of use of hand, (see RSD can affect ANY damaged area of body, while TOS is HAND focused), pain at elbow, pain at shoulder, pain behind shoulder blade, pain in neck and painful headaches and fatigue.

So you tell me, did you really NOT have TOS? Do you really JUST have RSD? The docs don't know because they can FEEL what we feel.

If you're work comp you MUST have an attorney. (I was / am one.)

You cannot be forced to have any treatment you feel would be detrimental. It is in the labor code I believe. It's LAW. Don't worry on that one.

The big thing is checking out the TOS board and the RSD boards and deciding what you have or multiple things you have.

God bless.

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Originally Posted by pml13504 (Post 495255)

Hi
Have Rsd upper extremities. have been on comp for a long time..they sent me to ime and he said i have rsd.. their referee md just sent me a letter want to do a symppathectomy..can they force me to do this..i live in florida.. thanks in advance

I underwent a radiofrequency neurotomy (a variation of what you'd be under going) shortly after I was diagnosed with RSD, which caused me untold complications and a MAJOR increase in pain.

Please read the following, I found it years to late:

http://rsdrx.com/crps_and_sympathectomy.htm