Reflex Sympathetic dystrophy or Regional Complex Pain Syndrome (?) - nne

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millburytimes wrote: >>>>>>>Dr. Conway told me that my butt pain was caused by the retractors used during surgery, and would go away between three and four months. Here it is eight months and it is worse, rather than better. Somehow, once I get pain, in any area, I can never get rid of it. nne, I read this statement in a handout from Libby...it makes me think of what you are describing above.... "Another form of nerve pain called "reflex sympathetic dystrophy" or "regional complex pain syndrome". In this kind of discomfort, pain signals from an injury (and the injury may be minor, such as a severe yeast infection, or major, such as surgery) continues after the cause of the injury resolves." Hugs, Chelle

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I've been concerned about the possibility for RSD off and on for

several years especially the last nearly 2 years I've had issues

with the pubic pain that is different from my main issues with

the vulvodynia.

I got especially concerned (which reminds me I will eventually

have to tell my Podiatrist about this at some point depending on

where things go with my history) with this pubic pain when I

would notice that the pain would go across the left side of my

pubic area, down my leg, to my foot, and then out the foot like

as if nothing had ever happened.

Sometimes that area got numb for a few minutes too. At first I

thought it was the pudenal nerve area but knew it still had to

do with the genitofemoral nerve and even playing in to it the

ilioinguinal nerve.

I found out something else (and will have to find the article

again on one of the RSD sites) that people with arthritis and

fibro are prone to getting RSD which is also what worries me.

Kristy

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