Hello Rebecca,

 I have RSD in both arms n hands and have had it for going on 9 years now. What you are describing is what I live with almost every day. I type with my index and middle fingers as that is all I can get to work well enough to type...its funny to watch. On a good day I can type almost 20wpm....lol, my 15 year old daughter types 80wpm. The only discoloring I have ever had is in the palm of the left hand where the RSD started after a carpel tunnel surgery there, when the RSD moved next door into my right arm n hand there was no discoloring, very little atrophy, just the pain and crumblie fingers that do not type well. Well, lets hope n pray that your case of RSD has not moved into your upper body.....ya know my Daughter Morgan texts messages a lot and that makes her hands cramp up, are you doing anything like that? All these people who like to text message are going to fill the operating rooms with carpel tunnal syndrome while their microwaves from their cell phones are killing the Bee population..... No body wins any more...LOL

Frank