My hubby and I watched the show;Paula was moving all over the place. My hubby said,"Hey, isn't she suppose to have RSD?" I said that is what Paula Abdul has told the world. Hubby said,"She must be Faking the Disorder, or You Are!"..in a playful manner. Maybe she is in remission??? The video that is posted doesn't name RSD as her medical issue. I don't know what to think about that video...denial of pain medication,hmmmmm???

Yeah...I watched it. That is one reason I decided to pop on here (haven't been on here in ages....I am an old "oldie" that pops out of woodwork every now and again), to see if anyone else had, and what they thought about it.

Paula Abdul is really ticks me off. I was SOO hoping that they wouldn't mention her "RSD" that she is supposed to have...but I'll be danged if Cynthia McFaddden didn't! I was surprised that not only did she say "RSD", but she also said the whole "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy", AND that it was a severely painful nerve condition that causes chronic pain (didn't put that in quotes, as I can't remember her exact wording...but it was bascially that). that was a good thing...what was bad is the old footage of the Freaked Out Paula that they kept showing. Her being all weird, acting stoned out of her mind...or drunk as crap, and wildly gesculating all over the place.

I don't know about your all, but I certainly DO NOT gesculate like that when I am hurting super bad. I look more like a decrepid 99 year old lady when pain levels are as bad as what Paula was trying to say hers where/are.

What gets me is that Paula lied. She actually stumbled over at least one of her lies too. I caught it....don't know how many other folks did. She sat there and said over and over again that she had "never. Never EVER" been drunk. That she doesn't drink ( think that she even said that she had NEVER EVER even had a drink..which I DO NOT believe at all!!)....and had NEVER EVER been drunk. A little bit later in the interiew, she again was denying drinking and being drunk, and she ALMOST said "I don't like how it makes me feel" (being drunk, that is)...but caught herself. Uh huh. How can you know what something feels like, and if you like it or not, if you have never experienced the feeling? Liar.

We had lots of conversations abot Paula when she first came out saying she had RSD after she was acting so very freaky...and when she made the cover or People. It seems to me that this is just more of the same; something to use as an excuse to pin her weird behavior on, without a thought as to what such claims do to the Chronic Pain Community. I guess that we ALL are supposed to act like Whack Jobs, just because we hurt...and hurt badly? That it makes us look like we are on a two day stoned out buzz? Or week long drunk? I mean..she emphatically says that she takes NO PAIN MEDICATION AT ALL..so we cant even just say "Oh..it mush be her meds. Maybe they changed her dose or something" (which has happned to me, when my pain meds got changed, or the dosage upped, and I wasn't used to it. Although, I have to say, the few times that I have had something make me feel at all weird or not like my normal self stopped that med and we tried something else that worked better). I have had (and still have) enough troubles getting folks to understand my pain..without them thinking that I might go off acting like a nut at any time, just because I have RSD. ARGH!!! Thanks again, Paula! Sheesh.

Oh....her doc told Cynthia that she not only suffers from RSD, but 4 other "chronic pain conditions, any one of which would sideline anyone else. He aplauds Paulas strenght". Whatever.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.
((hugs))
Jose

I'm with you, Jose. There are times it hurt so badly I may get "cranky" at my wife or others. But it is usually through clenched teeth and from a prone position.

Sheeesh.

Mike

Jose, first off, I want to say hi to you. I think of you often. I am glad to see you posting again.

I don't quite understand the situation with her. I have seen on two different shows where she says she don't have RSD and that was after the 2005 websites that others have put on here. Diana says she has seen where she has retracted the RSD.

First she said that they could ask her Dr. about meds then she refused to let them ask the Drs. That tells me something there.

I have never seen that woman when she didn't look drugged up. She said she's had 18 surgeries. I can't imagine having surgeries without taking some sort of pain meds until it gets better.

Ada

I was listening to the radio on the way to work this morning and the DJ was making fun of Paula and playing parts of the interview and not once was RSD mentioned. However, Joselita's post said it was mentioned by the interviewer. Having lived with a person with severe RSD for several years and learning over time the pain both physical and mental a person with RSD endures and the statement Paula made that she never takes pain meds struck me as very odd indeed. For 4 years my wife could not sleep more than 2-3 hours a night and went to work every morning because she took no meds except motrin and lost her mind and had a total collapse and is now disabled. She takes plenty of meds now and is more normal now than when she wasn't because her pain is being controlled much much better. Watching the clip of Paula, something is going on with her and she isn't being frank at all. Having not seen the full interview I wished she would have been more of a teacher in explaining this rare condition to the public and stayed on that course with the interviewer, she then would have come across in a much better light with the public.

thats right. God bless kimmie