[aussiemom]

Hi
Please forgive a newbies dumb questions, I may not be on the right board! A bit of history on me, I've had 4 level cervical fusion, and my scapular area gives me fits. My entire spine is a mess. I have confirmed arthritis in several joints.

So on a recent visit to my PCPs office, I told him I hurt all over, my skin sometimes hurts. Nothing specific, not screaming take me to the ER type pain, no rhyme or reason to it. He says maybe I have fibro.

An hour later, I'm at the pain doc. Tell her the same thing. She says difuse arthritis. Try to search them both, came up with RA or fibro.

What are the main symptoms of RSD? Lurking here, what people are posting makes more sense to me than what the docs say. How is it Dx'd? Trial & error?

As for meds, I can't do the Lyrica types, random drug tests at work prevent any narcotics, except for 1/2 vicoden once in a while, neurontin, too much brain fog. Basically, I'm on a very low dose of Cymbalta and a lot of tears.

Am I at the right place?