CRPS playing up due to...wait for it...
 

A paper cut! That's right, a paper cut.

I got a paper cut on my cripsy hand and now my hand is extra swollen and extra painful. It also seems to have turned the gas right up in my wrist which now has burning so intense that it almost feels icy. It is not a full-on flare up so I shouldn't complain but seriously, it is just a silly paper cut.

Wow, that is bizarre, but what about CRPS isn't bizarre anyway huh?

LMAO... okay I know it's not funny, but your presentation sure was! You poor thing; I am so sorry hon. yikes! :hug: Paper cuts can sucks any ole way.

I get worn out and feeling like I'm burning up just by doing a small amount of physical exursion. I feel so damn useless at times!

Vrae, you just have to laugh, eh?

It bled quite a bit for a paper cut. I'm not sure it that is CRPS related.

Unusual amounts of bleeding could be a side effect of RSD. It was explained to me once that our blood is thin at times.
I bleed easily too... :(

Tough break, Kim! That's just awful.
My CRPS nightmare started because of a laser tag injury...seriously, I have to tell top notch MGH neurologists that I'm disabled due to a game where you shoot fake laser beams at your friends in a fog-filled blacklight maze. It's written in my file. "Patient was playing what she calls 'laser tag' when inversion sprain occured." Guess we need to find the silly in the pain. :)

once we have this the slightest trauma can cause it to spread, specialist touched my arm with sensitivity pin 4ins outside the affected area and it spread from below wrist right upto elbow.

Wow, that just stinks. I have a hard enough time explaining my CRPS to people and my precipitating event was surgery. I can't imagine how difficult it must be to explain that yours started with a sprain.

Thanks folks. Things have pretty much gotten back to 'normal' now. It wasn't really a big deal, it was just ridiculous. I didn't even bother telling anyone except my husband and my cripsy friends here. Who else would understand? I think if I told people that my pain ratcheted up because of a paper cut, they would just think I'm nuts.

Kim no wound is silly for any of us, 7 -8% of us get wounds that may never heal I got bitten by flying ants 22 july 2011http://i834.photobucket.com/albums/z...psc07bec1f.jpg
Didn't heal until this Jan

I'm sorry, Kev. I didn't mean to minimise what you are going through or what anyone else is going through. I guess I just wanted to acknowledge that I was lucky in that it didn't turn into something worse, as I know it could have and as I know small wounds have for so many others.

Although I am always in intense pain, I know that I am lucky compared to many of you. I think I just feel bad complaining about something that happens to me when I know you and others here are so much worse off. I don't want you guys to ever think that I don't know how much you're suffering or that I don't care.

:hug:

Kim

We are not nuts just had bad days
 

We all have bad days in many different ways,people might think we are inventing stuff just avoid doing things or have a normal life but reality is as silly that might sound,who has a normal day with crps? Nobody,we are trying to be so careful to avoid more pain that for the rest of the world we are just a bunch of weird and paranoid dudes but who wouldn't be, no your ok,you just had a bad day but as usual it was lucky for you just that,a bad day,we are not crazy,pain is real,bad days too,good luck and blessings to all :grouphug:

My belief is that it can be anything to trigger CRPS... really. Almost anything. I have seen so many different kinds of injuries or upsets to the system cause this... :eek::(:confused::mad: :eek: I think our SNS sympathetic nervous systems are primed and ready for just that insult :mf_swordfight:. And when I have flares, the triggers can be just as different too... I do know that I have crossover and extra sympatethetic ganglia, also, my blood vessels are tortuous ..

My belief is that I am just that perfect storm if you will. :rolleyes: :rain: I'm trying to get to the bottom of it now because it is so maddening.:ranting: I don't feel badly about all of the treatments and surgeries I had to "fix" it, and me...For that information may we long benefit. However, especially in the last 10 years with all of the advanced DNA testing and as I watch my body develop new problems and conditions, I wonder if there is genetic predisposition... and I'm wandering into those weeds..

May you all have respite from pain today... :grouphug: :) :circlelove:

Hana

Kim you didn't minimise anything. It's just that I know most aren't aware of what the slightest wound can do to some of us and I was worried you might be one

understand the paper cut!!
 

Hi guys! New to the site. So glad I'm not alone with this rsd/crps.
I have it (right now) only in left arm. Hit my elbow turning around to leave my daughters room. Thought I was going to die!! I have a high threshold for pain..i thought.lol!! For about 15 minutes I was contemplating going to the ER.
then it hit me that my crps was the reason I was in so much pain.!