I am so sorry to hear you are going thru this dreadful disease. I was diagnosed with RSD in 1995 in my left arm. By 1999 it was under control and I thought I was one of the lucky people. In 2004 I broke my knee cap at work and thought ok got thru that so the RSD won't resurface. I was wrong. On May 1st of this year I was out of remission and now have stage 2 RSD in my left leg. The doctor tells me there is a 99.9% chance it will move back into the original affected area within 6 months.

I work as a nurse and I will tell you, even people in the medical field are thoughless. My nurse manager when I told her what was going on told me that she has been in constant pain for years and "I just need to get over it and live with it". Out of the 45 people I worked with only 2 of them have even been kind enough to call me to see how I was doing. I am on crutches for the time being. My doctor tells me that it is only a matter of time before I will become wheelchair bound.  RSD causes contanst burning pain that only people who have it can understand. Others just can't understand why we can't function the same way we did before.