Welcome to the board.

You might ask your Dr. to give you a script for Lidocaine patches. They work pretty good. You could put one on the areas that hurt. You can use 3 of them 12 hours on and 12 off. I think they help a lot.

I have had the ulner nerve surgery, along with the Thoracic outlet, 2 rotator cuff surgeries and just had surgery to release a nerve on the middle finger of my right hand. All were done on my right arm and hand. I still have others to go but we wait until I can't deal with them no more. My left side I have had one surgery under my arm. The RSD was brought out with the TOS surgery but due to having blocks the other 5 times, it didn't spread. I have been lucky in that way.

I would ask for a block before any surgery that you might have to have to keep the RSD from spreading.

I'm sorry that you are in so much pain. I do know what it's like. I can remember when I first started out how bad it was. I became suicidal over it.

Please take care and I hope you start seeing some better days.

Ada