Hi, I had RSD in my left wrist in 1991, so I am very aware of the horrible disease that is RSD. My prayers are with you all every night that you may find relief,... as I did. I was sucessfully treated with a Stellate nerve block in my throat. The intense burning, swelling and redness went away. I do suffer from atrophy in the hand and wrist. There is weakness and loss of function, but it is not too bad now.

I had a stupid accident last week with a tree branch lopper. After I removed my boots and was going up the steps of the deck, the lopper slipped out of my hand and stabbed the top of my right bare foot. The foot is red (three stitches) and swollen. I am taking an antibiotic and Lortab for the pain, but I can't help but fear that I have a mild RSD in that foot. I do not have the awful burning pain, and I can touch it,..............my question is have anyone here gone into remission from a RSD injury, and reinjured another part of your body and had RSD return in a milder version?

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Thank you all for your time, and may God bless you all.

Welcome to NeuroTalk....

There have been several studies in other countries over the past decade that Vit C taken in 500 to 1000mg a day for 50 days or so after a foot/hand trauma/surgery prevents RSD in many people.

It is not 100% but it is certainly simple and easy to do and may help.

This post has some of the links, but not all of them.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post670648-7.html

Thank you mrsd. If that is true, perhaps the fact that I do take daily vitamins is the reason this foot feel like a mild version of RSD. Thanks for your help.

Hi Mrs. D.

The studies regarding Vitamin C were done specifically for people CRPS following fractures. That being said I have no doubt Vitamin C is still highly valuable following any type of injury but the clinical data indicated a reduction of CRPS symptoms in fractures. The OP might be wise to focus on an anti-inflammtory dietary protocol in this instance.

Dear Notagain.

Welcome to our forum.

I do hope this is just a nasty injury that will heal without any RSD complications. You have come to the right place here as there are so many wonderful supportive people here. I can't answer your question myself because I have centralized RSD with left side involvement. Any bump to my left side no matter where it is causes me to flare. Do all you can to keep the inflammation down and under control and you should be able to get through this just fine.

MsL

Yes wrist fracture was one study. But there are others too.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19840748
This one dealt with surgery on the ankle.

Trauma releases cytokines, which are chemical signal messengers to other systems. Antioxidants may be a brake on excessive cytokine release.

It is also interesting that Vit C was looked at for another neuropathy-- Charcot Marie Tooth type 1A. But results have not been as expected, based on animal studies. We may see more in that regard in the future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcot...-Tooth_disease

Given that Vitamin C is easy to do, when an injury is fresh, I believe it is worth trying. If the RSD is already there, however, that would be a different scenario entirely.

I had TOS surgery that brought on the RSD and had 3 blocks later on that seemed to have put it in remission, then had rotator cuff surgery and that brought it back out again.

When something like your accident happens, if you could go to the hospital and have a block while they do the stitches or have the Dr. to do some lidocaine injections in that area it might keep the RSD from going to that area.

I have had many surgeries and they have done blocks or infusions to try and keep the RSD from spreading to that area and so far it has worked. When I didn't get blocks, it spread.

Ada

Hi I am sorry about your injury. I hope that it is not rsd and you feel better soon. On the note of Vitamin C my pain doctor also suggested I take it. So I do as I have heard it on here and rarely do doctors say to take a vitamin so thought it must be helpful in some ways.

Thank you all for your feedback, and welcoming me here. I too suffered from TOS, and probably fibromylagia. It seems the shoulder strain on my right side from the crutches has kinda flared that up now too. Couldn't turn my neck to the right when I awoke this morn, however the muscle relaxers and pain meds have helped it some now. I get my stitches out tomorrow, and the doc will evualate the swelling and redness in my foot. This is kinda a new doc, and I have only seen him for low back problems so far. I do hope he isn't one of those who refuses to listen to me like so many of my old doctors. He is a D.O. so he should be very knowledgable about the nerves. (I hope) Thank you all once again for the kindness and friendlyness that you have shown me here. God bless you all.

Hi All! Thanks MrsD for the vitamin C info, I did not know about that. I fell this past winter and injured a ligament in my right foot, and sure enough, RSD introduced itself to my right side. I really feel like this thing is eating me alive. And eating fast!! Lisa

I'm not having much luck figuring out how to reply here,.........haha. thanks mrsd for your help. Now I can see if this will post.