Summary:
Young women are likely targets of the life-changing intense pain known as RSD/CRPS. According to the McGill Pain Index, the intensity of RSD/CRPS pain rated considered higher than amputee pain.

This article outlines the symptoms of Type I and II RSD/CRPS, the three stages of the disease from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the five steps to take if you think you have RSD/CRPS, and support resources.

Details or Sample:
You have had a small injury – a sprained ankle or wrist, a bruised foot, wrenched hand - a “turned” knee. It hurts beyond all reason and you know the pain is not normal.

Months of visits to doctors follow: first your internist, then a neurologist, a pain management clinic, perhaps a psychiarist.

Days and nights are sharp with pain. The site may swell, turn red and look inflamed. You may sweat profusely. Often there is a deep burning sensation - like fuel thrown on a fire – like being on fire. It is violent and unendurable.

Sometimes the limb feels cold, as though it’s freezing. Clothing and bedding are intolerable, and you are in agony. You cannot bear to stand, to sit, to lay, to” reach,” to “hold.”

Doctors tell you there is nothing in the MRI, nothing in the scans, nothing in the x-rays – no cancer – nothing! Nevertheless, drugs are prescribed – powerful drugs, and they make you feel “loopy,” and weird. Anesthetic injections bring no relief, and may even make it worse, if possible. Rest does nothing – massage is excruciating. You are tested for Lyme Disease, and the tests are negative. The pain continues, but your job may not. Welcome to the unemployment line.

You are likely a young woman, but men, women of all ages, as well as children, suffer from these types of debilitating pain.

Today this pain does have a diagnosis, sort of...

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