My dog was bite by a brown recluse once . . . . . It was nasty! So I know what you mean, all of her fur fell out and the wound became about the size of a saucer for a coffee cup, it was awful, those are some nasty spiders.

Reading that made me wonder about spread though . . . . Like people that experience spread after scs or other procedures having to do with the spine. Makes me wonder if it's not really the rsd spreading but this. I'm not really sure it matters much in the end, since they are so similiar . . . . But it would seem with this one any sort of procudures to the spine could make it worse, so if you did have this instead of rsd in your back, and got blocks or epidurals, it could make it worse instead of better.

Oops.....sorry Deb, I should have followed up here before.........obviously just joking on the spiders comment, but I have heard of arachnoiditis before when I was first researching RSD.

debby,

i know u remember Vicc.....well, arachnoiditis was the diagnosis of his original spinal injury....for him, the rsd came later......his emphasis was always on the rsd, so i guess not everyone knows that he had arachnoiditis too.

the 'arachnoid' part is bcause the junction of all the nerves at that spot on the spine looks like a spider.

thought you'd wnat to know.

liz,
good to see you still come here too.........and yes I remember Vic......very well. And no I didn't know he had that DX. I came on quite a while after he did & never heard him talk abou that. Thanks for letting me know. I miss him......and hope his family is doing well.

How are you doing?? I am hanging in there.......For some reason I am hurting ALOT this summer. Not only RSD pain, but the Fibro pain has been atrocious this year.

DebbyV

Debby,

Wow, that was really interesting. I do have some spinal issues but have been controled with epidurals, weight loss, and excercise but my husband has had 2 back operations #1 was a disaster and the 2nd at HSS was a complete success and really has no back pain, function likes a normal person and does not take any medication for his back at all. But every once in a while and lately it has been happening to him more, maybe stress, he gets like spasms,cramps and weakness. I am going to make him read it. It could explain some of his symtoms that have always been there without pain since the 2nd operation but not enough for him to seek treatment for it.

Truly apprciate the effort.

gabbycakes