I hope you find a good derma.My heart goes out to you.Please do post and let
us know.You seem to be in good spirits.A positive is a +.
siccy

Lisa,
This could be anything. I hope they get to the root of the problem. Hugs, Roz

Roz...a biopsy for what? For these? Oh hon...is there sopmething you need to talk about?????

Could be off the beaten path

Lisa -

In addition to the other references I sent you last week, you might want to check out the attached story form the Harvard Gazette on the work of Anne Louise Oaklander, MD, PhD, who has found interesting changes in skin (nerve densities) on the opposite side of the body - a mirrored imaged as it was - from that part of the body where the injury had been sustained. For your consideration:

Pain produces mystery nerve loss
Mirror-image pain distresses researchers
By William J. Cromie
Harvard News Office

People who injure an arm or leg sometimes develop pain, swelling, or other unexpected symptoms in the opposite, uninjured arm or leg. Medical reports of such mirror-image effects go back at least to the Civil War and usually are blamed on overuse of the undamaged arm or leg.

Anne Louise Oaklander, director of the Nerve Injury Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, saw the glimmering of another explanation while studying patients with nerve damage from shingles. Caused by the virus that produces chicken pox in children, shingles inflicts adults with a painful rash of crusting blisters. It usually occurs on one side of the body. When the rash is treated, the pain goes away for some people, but lingers in others.

Oaklander, who is also an assistant professor of anesthesiology and neurology at Harvard Medical School, removed pinhead-size skin samples that allowed her to count how many nerves are working in small areas of skin. She found dramatic, long-lasting loss of nerve endings in areas previously affected by shingles. That was expected. But when her team checked skin from unaffected areas directly opposite the shingles outbreak, they were startled to see half the nerve endings had been lost there as well. . . .

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/...6/01-pain.html

Dr. Oaklander's recent study, "Evidence of focal small-fiber axonal degeneration in complex regional pain syndrome-I (reflex sympathetic dystrophy)," 120 Pain 235–243 (2006), can also be found on my favorite webpage, the RSDSA Medical Articles Archive. Click here http://www.rsds.org/2/library/articl...ive/index.html and scroll down for an alphabetical listing of the study - by author- under the heading of "Research."

take care,
Mike

I scar very easily. Last summer I got some mosquito bites on my foot, and I can still see them. Just not even a week ago I got a sore on my foot for no reason. I can't think of anything I would have done to get them.

are those pictures yours??

I will try and upload mine - (it is a relief though seeing the top one because thats what mine are like - but mine are apparently pressure sore things? dunno, that's what the DN's said).

and the evil bum sore is back..... I just don't have the ability to stay still enough (or for LONG enough)to avoid my bum! grrrrr!!

take care!!

Rosie xxxxxxx

PS - I use mag sulph and i am now using honey dressings, iodine spray and something or other ribbon to go in the pressure holes. (Calkostat?)

Thanks Mike,

I haven't been on here much as have been busy with the other health issues i have and so i hadn't really looked closely at the links you provided re the mirror image small nerve fibre loss study etc, .... perhaps something in this explains something affecting me now that is puzzling to the medical community regarding ears (don't mean to be obtuse here but this is an rsd site so i don't really want to clutter up here with other things I have as some of it's kind of rare but i simply wanted to say thanks as my rsd came first as far as i know and other stuff came later but maybe there is a connection and i will be mentioning this to a couple of my docs)

so again a big thank you...

all the best,
Ina

Hi folks, Check out the relationship between sores that don't heal and spirochetes & Lyme Disease & Syphlyss (non-sexual transmission..

Hi,

My CRPS has recently got a lot worse in my foot, and right on the end of my big toe, just under the end of the nail, I have a purple area of skin about 5mm round. When my foot is really cold it looks white, and when my foot is red and hot it looks a darker purple. It's really sensitive and causes me the worst of the pain at the moment because socks and shoes, and bed sheets etc all touch it. My physio doesn't think it's a big deal, but I'm worried it could turn in to a sore or something.

Am I worrying about nothing? Is it a 'normal' (ha) CRPS symptom on my skin? Is there anything I should or shouldn't do?!

Any thoughts gratefully received. Thanks!

Bram.