I have a rather less severe case than I read of a lot of you having, and it makes me feel blessed. With that in mind, it is somewhat good news to hear it gets gradually worse. I was bloody concerned it would go wild and just drop kick my ***. Thanks for posting the link, it informed me of the situation going forward, and now I have some answers. Thank you again. Later, Smoke

Hi there. And I beg to offer a different perspective. Unless I'm misreading it, the article stands for the proposition that after the 1 year mark, we may get gradually worse, but most people don't have dramatically negative changes, and may even have partial positive responses to therapies, as I did with Zometa:

. . . the majority demonstrated only moderate increases [in symptoms] with disease duration.

Chin up, please

Mike

MsL...

Do you want me to put this thread up there for you in the Useful websites sticky? I'll take care of that if you wish.

That way this thread can be found more easily and referenced.
I agree with you that it would be good idea.

Thanks Mike...I completely missed that and I guess I needed a nudge. I've been under a considerable amount of stress lately as I'm trying to sell our house and I had to put my cat down last week as he became very ill suddenly. It's all taking it's toll on me and my RSD seems to be intensifying along the entire left side of my body. I can't take most of the drugs so I'm left with few options. Thank god I can take some oxycodone as needed. I know I need to do something to lessen my stress but it's hard right now.

Thanks for the group hug!

Mrs D, Thanks for your offer to help with the link, I will do it, I was just a little stunned yesterday as I didn't realize what you were suggesting.

Warm regards to all

MsL

I thought you could word it better than I could! That is the only reason I suggested you do it. I don't have RSD and the history you all do. So I think one of you could do it better than I.

You know, write a little intro before putting this link in there