[loyalhound]

Wow I have PN for about 20 years...I fell in december and broke my wrist,after cast came off in 4 weeks my hand has RSD now..The Physical therapist did electrical stim to my forarm last week and the nerves in my hand went crazy and my finger tips all went numb they have a buzzing vibration now all the time
(two weeks ago) wrist seems fine, just a bit stiff, fingers get contracted and i feel like i have a claw for a hand most times.. lots of pain while using it at my job of dog grooming. anybody break their wrist that had the same things happen? They started me on neurontin..BTW my general PN started to give me flare ups right after the inital injury break in december of 2011.

[mrsD]

In UK and France they are using high dose Vit C to prevent RSD in wrist and ankle surgeries/trauma. (1000mg a day)

Here is an example of a paper...

Foot Ankle Surg. 2009;15(4):179-82. Epub 2009 Apr 5.
Effect of vitamin C on prevention of complex regional pain syndrome type I in foot and ankle surgery.
Besse JL, Gadeyne S, Galand-Desmé S, Lerat JL, Moyen B.
Source

Université de Lyon, Lyon, France. jean-luc.besse@chu-lyon.fr
Abstract
BACKGROUND:

The public health cost impact of complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS I) is considerable in both emergency and scheduled orthopaedic surgery. We proposed to assess the effectiveness of vitamin C in prevention of CRPS I in foot and ankle surgery.
METHODS:

We carried out a "before-after" quasi-experimental study comparing two chronologically successive groups without (Group I: July 2002-June 2003) and with (Group II: July 2003-June 2004) preventive 1g daily vitamin C treatment. All patients having surgery on the foot or ankle were enrolled, with the exception of diabetic foot cases. Several factors were analysed: sex, age, type of pathology, history of CRPS I, psychological context, tourniquet time, and cast immobilisation time.
RESULTS:

420 feet (392 patients) were included in the study: 185 in Group I, 235 in Group II. CRPS I occurred in 18 cases in Group I (9.6%) and 4 cases in Group II (1.7%) (p<10(-4)), with history of CRPS I as a significantly correlated factor (relative risk=10.4). The psychological context (anxio-depressive state) showed a (sub-significant) tendency to increase the risk of CRPS I (relative risk=2.6).
CONCLUSION:

Vitamin C has been shown to be effective in preventing CRPS I secondary to wrist fracture, but few data are available with respect to foot and ankle cases. The present study demonstrates the effectiveness of vitamin C in preventing CRPS I of the foot and ankle-a frequent complication in our control group (9.6%). The authors recommend preventive management by vitamin C.
Comment in

Foot Ankle Surg. 2011 Sep;17(3):207.

PMID:
19840748
[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

If you click on PubMed link at the top of the page and type this keyword into the search there you'll find other papers discussing this:
"reflex sympathetic dystrophy vitamin C"

Our RSD forum also has a vitamin C thread:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ight=liposomal

RSD is complicated and you might want to visit our RSD forum:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum21.html

They are also discussing a new electrical treatment called tTCS there:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread160980.html

[loyalhound]

thankyou!! vitamin c, dang i wish i knew that when the injury first happened might of prevented all this..