I'd certainly like to know what RSD medication Paula takes for her to be able to move like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTRsk...layer_embedded

Looks like YouTube is testing a live chat feature today and tomorrow so connecting is difficult.

lol.....true

Too easy to take pot shots at a celebrity who is photographed out in public all the time, IMO. I've got some pics of me jumping up and down when my son won his league superbowl in football last year. I look normal. No way to tell I had to double up on the Vicodin to get there and that I could NOT go to the post win celebration party.......no accompanying video of the next few days when I had troubled getting out of bed to go to the bathroom. No pics of all of the games that I couldn't even go to........

Finz, you are correct. My wife has RSD and she goes through the same thing. We have friends and family that just can not grasp the fact that when Suzy lifts something off the ground she can feel it for days ahead. However, there have been some strange things about Paula that don't seem to add up to RSD. They've been discussed on NT before.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ht=paula+abdul

I like it when you hear from the in-laws or whomever "Well, you looked good enough to do..."whatever. And then hear talk that "He's faking it, there's nothing wrong with him." It's to the point that when I'm having a good day I stay home.

I hear you all and its just not fair they don't understand. Nobody would unless they to have RSD/CRPS

Jenna, My apologies, I didn't mean to sound ill willed. My own mother was chastising me for going on a jet ski last week during my first vacation in 5 yrs with my fiance. God forbid I had a day where I felt well enough for an hour to have some fun. To have your own family doubt you when doctor's classify you as severe is disheartening to say the least.

I still don't know when exactly RSD began for me but I haven't been without pain on a daily basis for six years when I had my first cervical surgery. Despite that, if I have even an hour where I feel well enough to dance or god forbid, jet ski! I grab it and try to relish every second of it knowing I may not get the chance again.

Dawn

Does she have RSD?

I hear ya JK !

Jenna, "supposedly", she does

I wonder when she was diagnosed-maybe she was one of the lucky ones caught between 3-6months.
Finz you are so right!! A snapshot is not reality. I go to my kids games taking extra meds and then paying for it later, but it is sure worth seeing my kids play!
It is hard for others to understand when they only see what we let them see. momof4