Kim no wound is silly for any of us, 7 -8% of us get wounds that may never heal I got bitten by flying ants 22 july 2011
Didn't heal until this Jan

I'm sorry, Kev. I didn't mean to minimise what you are going through or what anyone else is going through. I guess I just wanted to acknowledge that I was lucky in that it didn't turn into something worse, as I know it could have and as I know small wounds have for so many others.

Although I am always in intense pain, I know that I am lucky compared to many of you. I think I just feel bad complaining about something that happens to me when I know you and others here are so much worse off. I don't want you guys to ever think that I don't know how much you're suffering or that I don't care.



Kim

We all have bad days in many different ways,people might think we are inventing stuff just avoid doing things or have a normal life but reality is as silly that might sound,who has a normal day with crps? Nobody,we are trying to be so careful to avoid more pain that for the rest of the world we are just a bunch of weird and paranoid dudes but who wouldn't be, no your ok,you just had a bad day but as usual it was lucky for you just that,a bad day,we are not crazy,pain is real,bad days too,good luck and blessings to all

My belief is that it can be anything to trigger CRPS... really. Almost anything. I have seen so many different kinds of injuries or upsets to the system cause this... I think our SNS sympathetic nervous systems are primed and ready for just that insult . And when I have flares, the triggers can be just as different too... I do know that I have crossover and extra sympatethetic ganglia, also, my blood vessels are tortuous ..

My belief is that I am just that perfect storm if you will. I'm trying to get to the bottom of it now because it is so maddening. I don't feel badly about all of the treatments and surgeries I had to "fix" it, and me...For that information may we long benefit. However, especially in the last 10 years with all of the advanced DNA testing and as I watch my body develop new problems and conditions, I wonder if there is genetic predisposition... and I'm wandering into those weeds..

May you all have respite from pain today...

Hana

Kim you didn't minimise anything. It's just that I know most aren't aware of what the slightest wound can do to some of us and I was worried you might be one

Hi guys! New to the site. So glad I'm not alone with this rsd/crps.
I have it (right now) only in left arm. Hit my elbow turning around to leave my daughters room. Thought I was going to die!! I have a high threshold for pain..i thought.lol!! For about 15 minutes I was contemplating going to the ER.
then it hit me that my crps was the reason I was in so much pain.!