*raWrs @ RSD* - Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Message Board

Percussionist · 09-08-2003, 07:14 PM

Garrr....Some of this really sucks!

Im in guitar, and concert band...Guitar envolves major stretching of the hand...and Concert band alll about percussion and Then I have Community Percussion after school on Tues and Thurs...basically Im over using my hand 24/7. Im getting chills and sweating in my hand. It's wierd...Starbucks helps :P. but yeah constant sweating, shakes, throbing, burning, shakey again on an on repeats so meh.

Theres my BEEF! BUT Im not giving up!! :P

~Kara
"we are the pulse...we are the rythm, we are the heart of the band...with no heart there is no pulse or rythm...and there is no band"

cattys · 09-08-2003, 07:45 PM

Kara,

That is the good old sympathetic nervous system misfiring giving you them symtoms.

Hang in there and keep playing.

Cattys

riceneuroni · 09-11-2003, 03:24 AM

Kara,

Sorry this slipped by me earlier. I sure would have responded had I seen it.

I'm sorry you're having so much pain from what you love so much. Sometimes life throws us these curves and we just have to accept them. It has done me that more times than I care to remember. Some folks it seems can go through their entire life and never have a health concern, and some of us are limited every time we find a new love.

Maybe others here will have better advice, but I'd say maybe a small woodwind wouldn't be so bad? I know it's not percussion and it would cut out some of the other bands, but what is the point in inflicting so much pain right NOW? Maybe if your hand calms down some in time you might be able to try some of your more rigorous instruments. For now, though, it sounds like maybe the RSD isn't going away and you are aggravating it.

I know it's practically impossible for a high school senior to consider "slowing down", so I'll just add my prayers to everyone else's for you.

dragonC · 09-11-2003, 06:42 AM

Kara
That is too bad that th RSD effects your passion. I can't imagine being in high school and having my interests waylaid.

I think I relate though. I am(was) a dancer. Tap, jazz, ballet etc. and my RSD is in my right foot. I keep trying to choreograph a one legged dance- I look and feel pretty stupid. My favorite type of dance is tap- which I call drumming with the feet. there is nothing like percussion.

Is there anyway to modify what you do so that it doesn't hurt so much? I don't know but can overuse make the RSD worse?Do you have a standby talent that you might want to fall back on when the pain is too much?

Hang in there
Peace
Just for today....
Cathy

tootles73 · 09-11-2003, 07:11 PM

Kara,
I understand your frustration. i started golfing 2 years ago and loved it so much that last summer I was golfing 5+ times a week. The main reason for taking it up was to do something with my husband after he retires, that we could both enjoy. Golfing brought us so much closer together, especially going through the whole empty nest thing. Now he wants to retire and I haven't even picked up my clubs this year since the dreaded monster roared his head! I definitely wouldn't continue to aggravate it. I read somewhere that repetitive motion can start RSD or cause a stir in those in remission!