History-
RSD was in my right foot. Fracture of fibular sesamoid, the ball of your foot, which never healed and had to be removed surgically. Post-op I couldn't move my toes, extreme pain, etc and was diagnosed some weeks later with RSD. Doctors believe I had the RSD prior to surgery, but the surgery made it worse. Long story short had several sympathetic nerve blocks, medications, and PT. A year after surgery I was able to return to work, another 6-8 months working through the pain and now I've been in remission and off medications for close to a year. I can go on a ten mile hike and work 12 hour shifts as a nurse. I did give up running and riding horses to minimize injury risk. Pain is mild, my circulation is not great in the right foot and it gets cold very easily, I am very particular about shoes, but I can wear socks again.


New-
I am so mad at myself for letting the clinic give me an antibiotic (right side) and steroid shot (left side) in the dorsogluteal site (butt) even though I know that site is no longer recommended due to high risk of complications like hitting nerves. I almost passed out when she did the antibiotic shot and shots normally do not phase me. Both sites had a normal amount of pain anyone would experience. However, the right side began hurting more after a week, by day 10 it hurt to jog. Day 13 I went back and the Dr. said they probably hit a nerve and it will take WEEKS to feel better. She instructed me to massage it and take aleve daily. This is just a walk-in clinic....she doesn't understand RSD and didn't seem to take my concern seriously and acted like this is normal. I am scared this is going to turn into a whole new disaster....help!

It's hard to tell if it feels like my foot felt and it certainly does not hurt as severely as my foot did...but I'll describe the pain a little. I wake up and the first thing that crosses my mind is how bad my butt hurts. It is hard to get out of bed because of the pain. One night my dog bumped into my butt and I woke up in tears. Walking I feel pain in my my butt from the range of motion, but mostly from the force of my foot hitting the ground that is worse if I walk quicker or jog. It hurts to touch it, rub it, and if the waistband of my pants rests on it. Now sometimes, walking or touching it does feel FINE, but if it is hurting nothing I do really makes it feel better.

It'll be a couple weeks before I could get in to see my neurologist. What steps would you take to minimize the risk of this being RSD flaring or spreading? Should I be thinking about restarting medications (obviously will have to prescribed again). Heating packs helped my foot in the winter when it would get ice cold, but not sure if that would help this? Any suggestions appreciated.