fibro or rsd??? - Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Message Board

dayton · 07-31-2003, 05:35 AM

boy, what a night. i feel like i've been run over by a truck. i hurt all over, neck, shoulders, legs. now i seem to have picked up some sinus thing where my throat is so clogged up i can hardly breath and my voice is hoarse. guess i'm paying for my vacation. both arms and legs are burning and i'm soooo tired. how can you tell the difference? i've got devlyn starlangyl books on fibro and she said that in some 82 percent of the cases this one doctor studied, that they had fibro and not rsd. Huh???? surely there has to be a way to know the difference. i just feel like i've got a sunburn. oh, poop. well i've got that too - diahhrea. LOL. i keep thinking i don't have rsd, i don't have rsd. i sound like dorothy in oz!!! well hope springs eternal.....

destinyevans · 07-31-2003, 07:58 AM

Hi,

I know it is confusing when it comes to RSD and FM. But according to the doctors, true burning pain is a classic sign of RSD. The pain is exactly like someone lit a match and pressed on your skin.

RSD pain is there all the time, from one extent to another on the pain scale.

Both FM and RSD flare. For me when the RSD flares, it literally makes me sick to my stomach.

Maybe others with both can post what they think too.

Hugs Destiny

sltanner · 07-31-2003, 08:10 AM

I have a friend with Fibro. She explained it to me as athritis of the soft tissue. She gets achy-pain all over the body, but never describes the type of pain I get - sensitive to touch, hot/cold, electrical, burning. - Shelley

dayton · 07-31-2003, 06:45 PM

thanks, but I've been watching my what I call "spells" and sure nuff, I only have them when under real stress -- like at work and so on. Is it possible to have flares like that at only certain periods and ten it kind of goes away. Like I sold my car today and was really rushed, I have to have it cleaned, the title was in both our names, it was a mess, I was out in the sun, and when I went back to work, geez, what a day. I come home, it's quiet, dark and with my doggy so I cleaned the house, am watching Alien on tv and I feel so much better. Laid down and paid bills trying to elevate my legs cause they're kind of swollen around the kness. But my neck and arms just ache but it's bearable. I just wish I knew which one I had. I try to tell myself no, I don't it and I pray for that. This is so hard. How do you all manage?

riceneuroni · 08-01-2003, 05:16 PM

Hi Dayton. Sorry to hear you're still not sure.

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