Originally Posted by olecyn

Pain & Brain FOG - still looking for the article found. This one will do for now...
http://www.drlwilson.com/Articles/brain_fog.htm

Get an attorney ASAP everyone. Attorney's work on a 15% or more now retainer fee. And they dont jump through hoops. You still have to manage ur own case, then yell & scream. Its not easy. My case is going on 11 years with 2 or is it 3 dep's now with no end in site. Just recently the opposition reviewers (no medical shield, just office workers) are denying medications, procedures they having been providing for. I get all the medical references needed & still nothing gets done.

It is not you. It is ALL insurance company's including Medicare. Health care has been reformed without the American people being told. Letters have been sent out by AARP (who just received millions by the government), Veterans & Medicare patients denying procedures across the board. What was in the pipeline for surgical procedures is no longer being approved according to the letters. Everything is being cut by 20-21%. Physicians are being sent letters in addition to the patient telling them the insurance company is no longer approving a previous approval.

Would you like to pay cash or by credit card? big sigh..

Originally Posted by olecyn

Get an attorney ASAP everyone.

Originally Posted by peppermintpatty

Just curious - why? Are you saying everyone with CRPS, or everyone with CRPS who also suffers from brain fog, or just everyone who has any type of medical issue, should get an attorney?

Originally Posted by fmichael

Dear Cindy -

I understand your frustration, but cannot agree with a significant portion of what is said in the webpage you've linked to, written by one Lawrence Wilson, MD, in which every point is asserted without citation or reference of any kind, and by an author who has never practiced medicine, according to his own C.V. To tell the truth, he sounds as close to Adelle Davis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelle_Davis as anyone I've heard in long tiime.

In saying this, it is not my intention to be confrontational with you. But the site to which you have linked appears as a whole to be commercial in it's nature, and should be flagged as such.

Mike

Originally Posted by peppermintpatty

I am sad to say that I too am suffering from this symptom. It is one of the most scary symptoms that I have, to be honest. I feel like I'm losing my mind some days. I do forget things occasionally, but it's affected me the most in word selection. I'll be in the middle of a sentence & simply cannot place the word I want to use. It's quite frustrating to me, as I am young & was relatively healthy before all of this hit me.

I would say that I suspect the medicine, but I started out on Neurontin/Effexor and over time have switched to Lyrica/nortriptyline, and the issues have not changed, so I really don't know. I have read that it is a symptom of the CRPS itself, but I'd prefer to blame it on the meds. I just really don't know.