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hello Marleen

I did ask him about increasing the dosage, however he didn't want to because he is giving me sympathetic nerve blocks. His reasoning was that if he increased the gabapentin at the same time he was doing the blocks there would be no way for him to determine what was actually helping me.
True. But if the blocks don't help... then there you are. That's the downside to it.

I never went to invasive therapies as blocks, for me that was crossing a line but each of us has to decide that personally.

Blocks can be iffy. They're great if they work. IF they work, but if not then it's a mess, and I always heard they might even exacerbate the CRPS. So, I held off on anything that was invasive.
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