Thank you, Norah, for your posting. I appreciate your mixed feelings about sharing this diagnosis. After reading this thread and doing some Internet searching, I may now know why my PN seems to have led to swelling, burning, and redness, along with Raynaud's-like symptoms. (One foot will be somewhat purple and the other lobster red; sometimes one foot even has both colors.) I was already dreading the spring and summer weather that everyone else around me is eager for. Now maybe I know why.

Two questions for those of you with experience with EM. How is it diagnosed? And what KIND of specialist would a person look for, to deal with it?

I'm sharing the hopes of others that Stacey is better today. Maybe the reason she hasn't updated us is that she's gone to the ER. And maybe she'll get help there. She was more on my mind last night than my own pain.