I'm sorry to hear that you are feeling this way. If you've read any of my posts you know that I have periods of time when I feel the same way...like I just want to give up. Being a seventeen year old I don't know the horrors of workers comp but I've read about it on hear. I do know that I worry about those things way more than any teenager should. I wonder how I will be financially. Many of you on here got RSD after having a job. What do you do when you have to get your first job and you already have RSD and always will as far as I know? I'm not sure how that will work for me. I'm somewhat limited as to what I can do, physically anyways. I guess my things are minor compared to yours. I don't have to think about bills yet. I think about how I'm going to get those papers done for my class when all I want to do is sleep. I wonder how I will ever get caught up from all the day of school i've missed because I just felt too painful and tired to go to school...or because I couldnt' sleep the night before. I worry about focusing in class when my meds make me kind of tired. I worry about maintaining my weight now that I have to force myself to eat cuz I feel sick to my stomach all the time. I wonder who will ever love me despite my condition. I worry about how my condition will progress over the years. I'm especially worried about getting help. I don't know much about workers comp but I do know about batteling with insurance companies. When we moved my parents insurance changed, and now they're making this huge deal about paying for my expenses because apparantly they're preexisting. Even when I have new things, like the pain I'm having in my wrists that i think could be carpal tunnel, they wont pay for me to go to a rheumotologist like my doctor wants me to. Which makes no sense because yes pain is preexisting but no one has ever diagnosed anything in my wrists. It's like insurance is intended to help you when you or your family get's sick, but they will do everything in their power to make sure they don't spend a dime on your well being. I just focus on the things RSD cannot take away from my life.