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I am a 55 year old RN who has had re-occurring RSD since 1993. It started with a left ankle sprain in 1990, which continued to resprain at least 3 times a year.
In 1993 I flew to Michigan on vacation and severely sprained my ankle, the sprain did not respond to the usual treatment of ice, elevation, and rest and got worse. My left extremity swelled to twice its size and became reddened. I could not stand having anything touch it, including bed linens. The orthopedic surgeon that I saw wrote a l...Read the full article