anyone with rsd having issues with blood vessels popping up and hurting bad, I even have trigger thumb in right hand now, my doctor said I have to live with it

Hi Jrosiebd,

I'm sorry you have thses problems. I don't have the symptoms you have with the blood vessels poppng up in your fingers, but I do have blood vessels that pop up on my stomach where I had my hysterectomy.
My blood vessels pop up when I put a heating pad on my stomach when it's hurting more than usual. They go back down usually the next day though. Hope you feel better. Take Care.

Renee.

Have you tried an epsom salt soak? I have started getting very painful varicose veins all through my rsd leg. Yes my reg veins stick up a lot when I hurt but these little boogers hurt.

I get bad pain in my fingers/hands...they tend to claw up in a really bad flare which is sometimes accompanied by terrible swelling and sometimes not. I find that when it's bad...heat is definitely my friend. A nice soak in a warm Epsom salt bath is usually the only thing that helps me get my hands unstuck.

Hi JRosie. I'm not quite sure if this is what you mean but I have noticed that when my hand swells up a wee bit more than normal, my veins become more prominent and are sort raised up. I also have extra pain at these times. I haven't actually asked my doctor about it.

Hi JRosie,

I think I know what you are talkng abt. I have recently been diagnosed with CRPS in my left hand. thumb and second finger mostly. I have noticed at times (especially when the pain is bad or increasing) that there seem to be 2 blood vessels in the thumb area - the worst affected area - that sort of stand out more than they do when I am having a mild pain day. I have to admit it is something that I keep forgetting to mention to the dr.

I find that if I do it at the right time and in the correct area if I apply just the tiniest bit of warm pressure it sometimes eases just a little, but then if I get the timing or position wrong it sends me into agony.

Hi Rosie! I already have full body RSD, but originally it was right upper, arm and hand. I developed trigger finger in my right middle finger, about 5-6 years in. It's really annoying though not usually painful. I saw a hand specialist who refused to treat it because of the RSD. I honestly already knew traditional treatment was not going to be authorized by me, but wanted to see if he had any other suggestions. He walked me down to a hand OT who made a very light weight, flexible brace that attached with Velcro. ( It only survived about a year.) I was to only wear it off and on, and it did allow movement, just not full range of movement easily. You will find if you try your best to avoid a full range of movement, and not allow your thumb to snap and catch, you will over time, lessen any inflammation and lessen the trigger snapping. I've gotten into the habit of keeping that finger as straight as possible, and not using it, even when I grasp. I am sure that would be harder to do with your thumb. But the less you have it snap and catch, the less the frequency of it catching. Mine only catches every once in a while and when it starts, I pay more attention to trying to keep it from bending tight enough to catch. The OT I saw told me that the more it is used full extension and retraction, the more it will catch and not release...the tendons will not easily slid in the membrane that houses them.

Odd question just occurred to me, I got fibromyalgia, a little over two years into the RSD. fibromyalgia is the inflammation of the thin membrane that covers each muscle and forms tendons, attaching muscle to bone/joints. That's two inflammatory sites that involve tissue/membrane that houses soft tissue. Things that make you go hhhhmmmmm?