Hi all!
I'm 53, married with 2 sons, 1 grandaughter. I'm a professinal female in a customer service job.
I fell & broke my wrist 12-22-12 & had surgery on 12-28-12. I developed "complications" within 1-2 weeks and was diagnosed with CRPS finally 4 wks later with help of my P.T. alerting my surgeon.
I have all the "classic" symptoms. I was referred to pain mgt. Dr. but later found a better one. I have been given a whole coctail of drugs to take of course and am waiting for my 4th nerve block. However, the 1st one failed because they hit arteries twice (only x-ray guided) and caused too much bleeding. That's when I searched out another pain Dr. who uses both ultrasound and x-ray guided nerve block.
I'm horrible and slow at keyboarding now and that is a main portion of my job so I have not been able to return yet and I'm really afraid about that among other things.
I hope to offer support to fellow sufferers here and learn from others and share what I'm learning. CRPS is so frustrating!

Hello and welcome to Neurotalk! I'm glad you found us, and I'm sure you'll like it here.

After reading your post, I'm sure you'd benefit from the Chronic pain forum. the people there are very friendly, knowledgeable, and supportive. I know you'll get alot from them. So don't hesitate to post. Just jump right in!

Again, welcome and I hope we hear more from you. God bless and please take care. Hugs, Lee

AZ-Di,

It is great to have you come and be with us. You will fine a great number of dear friends to listen when you are in need of ears. Please, just let us know how we can help you out. You will find out we are supportive and relaxing place.

Please keep us up to date on your situation. Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Hello AzDi!

I see we're in the same general area of Arizona - I wonder if we've seen some of the same docs? We're also similar in other ways, too - I'm also in my 50's with 2 sons, but I have a daughter, not a granddaughter. My daughter has RSD. She developed it after 2 stress fractures in her foot and has been dealing with it for 10 months now. I had it for a month or so after surgery on my foot, then before my first spinal block, I tore my rotator cuff and had to have shoulder surgery, and the RSD in my foot went away.

Anyway, nice to meet you, and I hope you get some good results with some treatments. We had a lot of good luck with Calmare, after going through 3 spinal blocks and 5 Bier blocks.

It's good to meet you. I haven't had the same experience as you, but I am very familiar with pain. So sorry you are hurting. I am glad you found our forum and hope to hear more from you!