dayton

I know this will probably be a sensitive post (and what about rsd isn't?) but I wanted to ask anyway. This past Saturday hubbie was working so I went shopping. I just messed around, went to Costco's, bookstore, mall, basically just piddled around. Went home and watched home remodleing shows, played with doggie.

Oh, where am I going, yeah, right?? Point is I really felt good. No stress, no pressure, doing what I wanted to. I wasn't in any pain, just an awareness of leg, but nothing else.

So question is, can rsd symptoms be self-induced? I don't mean psychsomatic (sorry about spelling), I mean when you are under tremendous stress do the symptoms also increase in severity. So if you're relaxed, there should be a moderate decrease in the symptoms, right? Like panic attacks, I used to have them when I was really stressed, but now I haven't had them in a long time.

The reason I'm following this particular line of thought is the doctor said I had "mild" symptoms and could see no reason for giving me anything other than vicodin and only a small number of pills at that.

Foot, do you see where I'm going? Help me out here.......