Three doctors, two of which are CRPS specialists have diagnosed me with CRPS. The doctor i’m currently seeing Dr. A (as i refer to him in other posts), made his diagnosis today. I told him my pain had decreased about 90% ,though in hindsight this was a bit of an exaggeration as some things such as walking and pain in the twos are 90% better, since the original trauma to the foot, but that symptoms had come, go and changed. For instance, the tingling, warmth, redness, and electric tingles in the foot weren’t present in the first couple months, but have become frequent (daily) but are relatively unpainful (1-2/10). So to re-iterate my symptoms orginal were painful walking, throbbing in the toe and how their warmth, redness, tingling, electric tingles.

Dr. A expressed their was nothing more he thought worth the risk doing at this time. That he had seen CRPS cases that resolved themselves and the patient was healed. That much of the literature focuses on the worse outcomes. He wasn’t willing to give a timeline for healing or a probability, but was hopeful that mine would resolve itself.

This optimism mirrors Dr. O, the orthopedist who first diagnosed me with CRPS and gave me a nerve block. It also correlates with the findings of a population based study (though their is some controversy surrounding this study), that there are many (maybe the majority) people diagnosed with CRPS that see resolution.

I understand that many on this forum are likely to be long time sufferers of CRPS. That many of you likely have much worse symptoms then mine. I’m hoping that if anyone has any advice concerning my history, diagnosis, treatments, diets, the doctors advice, prognosis, spreading, etc.. they would share it.