Hey all! I'm not sure where I should be here... I have been fighting for a somewhat normal life for almost three years, If there is such a thing for me anymore. August 2005 I fell at my work place, proceeded to break my right hand... was diagnosed with RSD about three weeks later. I continued working
while taking strong pain medication etc. I finally had to surrender to the pain
a year ago (2007)... since then I go to my pain management dr. keep increasing the dosages of the five different medications I have been taking for two years. When I can no longer live with the pain I ask for a nerve block.
Not only dealing with the pain... and searching the net for anything that I can
find to ask my dr. about. I'm still having to fight workman's comp. for some
help for medical and all the expense I have been out since they paid a dr. (two years ago) to say that I don't have rsd.
I live alone, and although I do have children... they live and work so far away from me. Since this terrible condition has literally taken over my body, my children no longer want to talk to me, and I'm lucky to see them once or twice a year.
My daughter will help me type up some things to send to my lawyer (after I
beg her for help) but she will never call me... this is all so painful too.
I do have one son that wants to do what he can to help me financially, but
my other son now wants no contact with me other than once a year to
come home for Thanksgiving.
Darn! I didn't mean to get into any of that... I just want to say Hi to everyone, and say how happy I am that I found this place while searching
for another treatment, and possibly a way to go into remission.
God bless all of us... may we all find comfort through kind words!