I'm sorry that you are going through all of this and I can totally relate to feeling like you want to have your life back...the fun. My boyfriend has been a blessing for me in giving me a sense of normalcy even with all the problems and the pain. He makes me laugh...and these days that is just priceless.

I find it odd what you said about the pool therapy (ie not making it to that part). When I was told to do pool therapy that's where we started. It was much easier to do most of the exercises and walking in the pool...stuff I couldn't do out of the water period. The temp of the pool was the most difficult part of that pool therapy since it wasn't very warm. But we started out with 2 days in the pool and 1 out of the pool each week, then after a few weeks went to 1 pool day, and then were totally out of the pool. There was a progression with that and it worked for me to get me walking again (until this new set of problems started).

I've always sort of wondered about fibromyalgia too...but I have always thought that the biggest difference was the level of pain with the RSD is so much higher. I know a lot of the medications are the same.

I hope that no matter where you end up going, Mayo or Cleveland Clinic, that they are able to help you. Things will get better...we have to always have faith in that. Good luck!

Could it be that you have both? Many of us like myself have more then 1 dx. Sometimes that can add confusion to treatment too. I went to Cleveland Clinic for RSD and did not have the best results there. I know someone though who did have good results so everyone is different. Mayo I think I heard will have different specialties look at your case which may be good in terms of ruling out condition and dx. I am not saying not to go to CC just my thoughts. I would ask the treatment people you have now why you have not tried pool therapy? Hope you feel better