Re: 3 Doctors Mistakes...13 Months Waiting

[Guest guest]

What is RSD?

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSD) - also known as Complex Regional

Pain Syndrome (CRPS) - is a chronic neurological syndrome characterized by:

* severe burning pain

* pathological changes in bone and skin

* excessive sweating

* tissue swelling

* extreme sensitivity to touch

[For a complete description of RSD/CRPS symptoms, please read the _Diagnosis

section_ (http://www.rsds.org/3/clinical_guidelines/index.html#diagnosis) of

the Clinical Practice Guidelines section of this website].

There are Two Types of CRPS - Type I and Type II.

* CRPS Type I (also referred to as RSD) - cases in which the nerve

injury cannot be immediately identified

* CRPS Type II (also referred to as Causalgia) - cases in which a

distinct " major " nerve injury has occurred

* RSD/CRPS is best described in terms of an injury to a nerve or soft

tissue (e.g. broken bone) that does not follow the normal healing path

* RSD/CRPS development does not appear to depend on the magnitude of

the injury. The sympathetic nervous system seems to assume an abnormal function

after an injury

* Since there is no single laboratory test to diagnose RSD/CRPS, the

physician must assess and document both subjective complaints (medical

history) and, if present, objective findings (physical examination).

Criteria for Diagnosing

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type I (RSD)

* The presence of an initiating noxious event, or a cause of

immobilization

* Continuing pain, allodynia, or hyperalgesia with which the pain is

disproportionate to any inciting event

* Evidence at some time of edema, changes in skin blood flow (skin

color changes, skin temperature changes more than 1.1°C difference from the

homologous body part), or abnormal sudomotor activity in the region of the pain

* This diagnosis is excluded by the existence of conditions that would

otherwise account for the degree of pain and dysfunction

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type II (Causalgia)

* The presence of continuing pain, allodynia, or hyperalgesia after a

nerve injury, not necessarily limited to the distribution of the injured nerve

* Evidence at some time of edema, changes in skin blood flow (skin

color changes, skin temperature changes more than 1.1°C difference from the

homologous body part), or abnormal sudomotor activity in the region of pain

* This diagnosis is excluded by the existence of conditions that would

otherwise account for the degree of pain and dysfunction.

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3 Doctors Mistakes...13 Months Waiting

Good Afternoon,

It has been a while since I have wrote. Things hectic with no worker's

compensation doctor's appointments and 13 months later finally I can

be told the truth from my own doctors.(non-worker's compensation related)

July 9th, 2005 I had a serious fall at work, I can't tell you how many

doctors later and a surgery in Sept 2005 on my left knee and

leg....Things were only getting worse.

I finally got answers, however, some of them were answered already

such as RSD, my one worker's comp doctor diagnosed me with it...then

he denied the fact, lost the records and test results.

After being treated in the emergency room in April 2006 for a fall due

to my left leg and knee giving out, I had now injured my right arm and

aldner nerve leaving me paralized in that arm and hand for nearly 4

months. The hospital referred me to a neurologist who is presently my

treating doctor. Worker's comp has stopped paying entirely for any

care for myself since January 2006. As you are all aware that medical

treatment does not come cheap..and not having insurance it is even

worse. After the fall and things were not improving with leg and

right arm now, my neurologist ordered 3 MRI's on on my cervical, one

on my back and the other one my left leg and knee again. 7 weeks went

by and we could not get anybody to even look at me in the Orthopedic

profession since I was worker comp. Finally, a break through...To make

this a short ending..I was shocked to find out that the surgery that

was to have been performed last September, 2005...was NOT! Nothing

was ever done, other than incissions made and what ever else he did

inside my knee other than to fix it. Never in my life could I have

imagined such an outcome..shock! When I had fallen back in July, one

doctor told me I bruised the knee and sent me back to work 40 hours a

week. Things were not getting better, pain was out of this world and

I had requested a new doctor. This is when he diagnosed me with a

shattered knee on the inner portion. Before surgery he explained to us

what was going to be done and recovery. Two, Three, Four months had

passed and the knee in fact was not getting better. Just more painful

and larger. What the MRI films have shown now...is comparing the

before injury, 4 months after the surgery, and the newest MRI that was

done the beginning of June...NOTHING WAS DONE..NOT ONLY WAS THE INNER

PORTION OF THE KNEE SHATTERED, BUT THE LEFT WAS SHATTERED AS WELL,

TENDONS AND MUSCLES TORN. I am shaking my head as I write this, only

because I still cannot believe this has happened.

So with me having RSD, and now a leg that was never repaired or

fixed...I have been stumbling around (very little walking due to

pain)for 13 months and now it is the process of the waiting game.

The two doctor's that are treating me now do not know when surgery can

be done due to the RSD pain and severity it has developed.

I have never cried so much in my life...I need support now more than

every. I needed to vent...as I sit and cry as I type this. How can

this happen in todays medical field? How can these worker's comp

doctor's get away with this. To think that I went through months and

months of physical therapy...crying during therapy..and made to do

more and more..on a SHATTERED leg!

Honestly, as well as all you are aware...believe it or not we do know

our bodies. I am beside myself...I have been sitting behind 4 walls

for nearly 13 months...without the ability to walk but maybe 5 minutes

at the most. I feel like a prisioner of my own home.

I cannot begin to tell you how many times I begged the doctors to

please, help me! There reply was, there is nothing wrong with you.

I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I needed to vent..vent

to other than know the amount of pain that we go through on a day to

day basis. I have requested help for counseling and was denied that

to. I felt like I was spinning circles and nobody was ever going to

listen.

It seems like every road block that was put up..I found..every time I

tried to get through it there was a concrete wall...and every time I

tried to climb it..it got taller. Never in my life have I felt so

helpless. My attorney in the worker's compensation claim wasn't even

believing me when I would talk with him...NOW HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO

SAY TO ME...AND I AM ANGRY. It is not easy hiring another attorney in

the work comp field. Since the laws have changed (from what I have

been told) the laws are there to protect the insurance companies and

not the patients. Sad isn't this? What keeps going through my mind is

this...People get put into jail everyday for abuse to animals...but

here I am a human being and basically I have been denied medical care

and you name it...and nothing is being done to these people that lied,

treated me a lied and so on.

If anyone has any input what so ever, I am most happy to read what you

have to say...think...feel? Right now I am such an open book as I do

not know which way to turn anymore. My worker's comp pay has stopped,

due to my attorney canceling an appointment I knew NOTHING about. His

reason was..He is just like the rest of the doctors, he will tell you

that there is nothing wrong with you and send you to work. When I

expressed huge concern, did he realize the consquences when he did

this (non-compliance with WC)for not treating with their doctor..his

reply was no.

So you all can only imagine my stress level is ready to explode! No

healthcare, waiting on healthcare that we are paying for (barely) and

no NO paychecks! I am getting scared as to how I will eat, pay the

electric bills, the rent..and the list goes on.

Thank you all so very much for reading this long drawn out story..it

is sometimes so much better for me to put this into words in black and

white. Of course then there is the fact that nobody can understand

the pain much less the other troubles.

Feeling very low in Florida....self worthlessness.

Please feel free to comment..I am in so much need of someone to talk

to....Thank you...hugs....Dee in Florida.

To read these messages on the Hugs web site go to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hugs-N-Pain

you can contact me privately at starlyin@...

Rose

Owner/ Moderator Hugs N Pain

God Bless our Troops

Please Pray for them

[Guest guest]

Dee,

I am so sorry to hear all you have been through! It's horrible!!!! I don't

understand how the doctor's can be so uncaring! THEY WORK FOR US, so why

are we putting up with it? Hang in there sweetie. Wish there was something

I could do to help you. I will say a prayer for you and send you calm

feelings to bring your stress and pain down.

Gentle hugs, Debi

-- 3 Doctors Mistakes...13 Months Waiting

Good Afternoon,

It has been a while since I have wrote. Things hectic with no worker's

compensation doctor's appointments and 13 months later finally I can

be told the truth from my own doctors.(non-worker's compensation related)

July 9th, 2005 I had a serious fall at work, I can't tell you how many

doctors later and a surgery in Sept 2005 on my left knee and

leg....Things were only getting worse.

I finally got answers, however, some of them were answered already

such as RSD, my one worker's comp doctor diagnosed me with it...then

he denied the fact, lost the records and test results.

After being treated in the emergency room in April 2006 for a fall due

to my left leg and knee giving out, I had now injured my right arm and

aldner nerve leaving me paralized in that arm and hand for nearly 4

months. The hospital referred me to a neurologist who is presently my

treating doctor. Worker's comp has stopped paying entirely for any

care for myself since January 2006. As you are all aware that medical

treatment does not come cheap..and not having insurance it is even

worse. After the fall and things were not improving with leg and

right arm now, my neurologist ordered 3 MRI's on on my cervical, one

on my back and the other one my left leg and knee again. 7 weeks went

by and we could not get anybody to even look at me in the Orthopedic

profession since I was worker comp. Finally, a break through...To make

this a short ending..I was shocked to find out that the surgery that

was to have been performed last September, 2005...was NOT! Nothing

was ever done, other than incissions made and what ever else he did

inside my knee other than to fix it. Never in my life could I have

imagined such an outcome..shock! When I had fallen back in July, one

doctor told me I bruised the knee and sent me back to work 40 hours a

week. Things were not getting better, pain was out of this world and

I had requested a new doctor. This is when he diagnosed me with a

shattered knee on the inner portion. Before surgery he explained to us

what was going to be done and recovery. Two, Three, Four months had

passed and the knee in fact was not getting better. Just more painful

and larger. What the MRI films have shown now...is comparing the

before injury, 4 months after the surgery, and the newest MRI that was

done the beginning of June...NOTHING WAS DONE..NOT ONLY WAS THE INNER

PORTION OF THE KNEE SHATTERED, BUT THE LEFT WAS SHATTERED AS WELL,

TENDONS AND MUSCLES TORN. I am shaking my head as I write this, only

because I still cannot believe this has happened.

So with me having RSD, and now a leg that was never repaired or

fixed...I have been stumbling around (very little walking due to

pain)for 13 months and now it is the process of the waiting game.

The two doctor's that are treating me now do not know when surgery can

be done due to the RSD pain and severity it has developed.

I have never cried so much in my life...I need support now more than

every. I needed to vent...as I sit and cry as I type this. How can

this happen in todays medical field? How can these worker's comp

doctor's get away with this. To think that I went through months and

months of physical therapy...crying during therapy..and made to do

more and more..on a SHATTERED leg!

Honestly, as well as all you are aware...believe it or not we do know

our bodies. I am beside myself...I have been sitting behind 4 walls

for nearly 13 months...without the ability to walk but maybe 5 minutes

at the most. I feel like a prisioner of my own home.

I cannot begin to tell you how many times I begged the doctors to

please, help me! There reply was, there is nothing wrong with you.

I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I needed to vent..vent

to other than know the amount of pain that we go through on a day to

day basis. I have requested help for counseling and was denied that

to. I felt like I was spinning circles and nobody was ever going to

listen.

It seems like every road block that was put up..I found..every time I

tried to get through it there was a concrete wall...and every time I

tried to climb it..it got taller. Never in my life have I felt so

helpless. My attorney in the worker's compensation claim wasn't even

believing me when I would talk with him...NOW HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO

SAY TO ME...AND I AM ANGRY. It is not easy hiring another attorney in

the work comp field. Since the laws have changed (from what I have

been told) the laws are there to protect the insurance companies and

not the patients. Sad isn't this? What keeps going through my mind is

this...People get put into jail everyday for abuse to animals...but

here I am a human being and basically I have been denied medical care

and you name it...and nothing is being done to these people that lied,

treated me a lied and so on.

If anyone has any input what so ever, I am most happy to read what you

have to say...think...feel? Right now I am such an open book as I do

not know which way to turn anymore. My worker's comp pay has stopped,

due to my attorney canceling an appointment I knew NOTHING about. His

reason was..He is just like the rest of the doctors, he will tell you

that there is nothing wrong with you and send you to work. When I

expressed huge concern, did he realize the consquences when he did

this (non-compliance with WC)for not treating with their doctor..his

reply was no.

So you all can only imagine my stress level is ready to explode! No

healthcare, waiting on healthcare that we are paying for (barely) and

no NO paychecks! I am getting scared as to how I will eat, pay the

electric bills, the rent..and the list goes on.

Thank you all so very much for reading this long drawn out story..it

is sometimes so much better for me to put this into words in black and

white. Of course then there is the fact that nobody can understand

the pain much less the other troubles.

Feeling very low in Florida....self worthlessness.

Please feel free to comment..I am in so much need of someone to talk

to....Thank you...hugs....Dee in Florida.

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3 Doctors Mistakes...13 Months Waiting

Good Afternoon,

It has been a while since I have wrote. Things hectic with no worker's

compensation doctor's appointments and 13 months later finally I can

be told the truth from my own doctors.(non-worker's compensation related)

July 9th, 2005 I had a serious fall at work, I can't tell you how many

doctors later and a surgery in Sept 2005 on my left knee and

leg....Things were only getting worse.

I finally got answers, however, some of them were answered already

such as RSD, my one worker's comp doctor diagnosed me with it...then

he denied the fact, lost the records and test results.

After being treated in the emergency room in April 2006 for a fall due

to my left leg and knee giving out, I had now injured my right arm and

aldner nerve leaving me paralized in that arm and hand for nearly 4

months. The hospital referred me to a neurologist who is presently my

treating doctor. Worker's comp has stopped paying entirely for any

care for myself since January 2006. As you are all aware that medical

treatment does not come cheap..and not having insurance it is even

worse. After the fall and things were not improving with leg and

right arm now, my neurologist ordered 3 MRI's on on my cervical, one

on my back and the other one my left leg and knee again. 7 weeks went

by and we could not get anybody to even look at me in the Orthopedic

profession since I was worker comp. Finally, a break through...To make

this a short ending..I was shocked to find out that the surgery that

was to have been performed last September, 2005...was NOT! Nothing

was ever done, other than incissions made and what ever else he did

inside my knee other than to fix it. Never in my life could I have

imagined such an outcome..shock! When I had fallen back in July, one

doctor told me I bruised the knee and sent me back to work 40 hours a

week. Things were not getting better, pain was out of this world and

I had requested a new doctor. This is when he diagnosed me with a

shattered knee on the inner portion. Before surgery he explained to us

what was going to be done and recovery. Two, Three, Four months had

passed and the knee in fact was not getting better. Just more painful

and larger. What the MRI films have shown now...is comparing the

before injury, 4 months after the surgery, and the newest MRI that was

done the beginning of June...NOTHING WAS DONE..NOT ONLY WAS THE INNER

PORTION OF THE KNEE SHATTERED, BUT THE LEFT WAS SHATTERED AS WELL,

TENDONS AND MUSCLES TORN. I am shaking my head as I write this, only

because I still cannot believe this has happened.

So with me having RSD, and now a leg that was never repaired or

fixed...I have been stumbling around (very little walking due to

pain)for 13 months and now it is the process of the waiting game.

The two doctor's that are treating me now do not know when surgery can

be done due to the RSD pain and severity it has developed.

I have never cried so much in my life...I need support now more than

every. I needed to vent...as I sit and cry as I type this. How can

this happen in todays medical field? How can these worker's comp

doctor's get away with this. To think that I went through months and

months of physical therapy...crying during therapy..and made to do

more and more..on a SHATTERED leg!

Honestly, as well as all you are aware...believe it or not we do know

our bodies. I am beside myself...I have been sitting behind 4 walls

for nearly 13 months...without the ability to walk but maybe 5 minutes

at the most. I feel like a prisioner of my own home.

I cannot begin to tell you how many times I begged the doctors to

please, help me! There reply was, there is nothing wrong with you.

I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I needed to vent..vent

to other than know the amount of pain that we go through on a day to

day basis. I have requested help for counseling and was denied that

to. I felt like I was spinning circles and nobody was ever going to

listen.

It seems like every road block that was put up..I found..every time I

tried to get through it there was a concrete wall...and every time I

tried to climb it..it got taller. Never in my life have I felt so

helpless. My attorney in the worker's compensation claim wasn't even

believing me when I would talk with him...NOW HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO

SAY TO ME...AND I AM ANGRY. It is not easy hiring another attorney in

the work comp field. Since the laws have changed (from what I have

been told) the laws are there to protect the insurance companies and

not the patients. Sad isn't this? What keeps going through my mind is

this...People get put into jail everyday for abuse to animals...but

here I am a human being and basically I have been denied medical care

and you name it...and nothing is being done to these people that lied,

treated me a lied and so on.

If anyone has any input what so ever, I am most happy to read what you

have to say...think...feel? Right now I am such an open book as I do

not know which way to turn anymore. My worker's comp pay has stopped,

due to my attorney canceling an appointment I knew NOTHING about. His

reason was..He is just like the rest of the doctors, he will tell you

that there is nothing wrong with you and send you to work. When I

expressed huge concern, did he realize the consquences when he did

this (non-compliance with WC)for not treating with their doctor..his

reply was no.

So you all can only imagine my stress level is ready to explode! No

healthcare, waiting on healthcare that we are paying for (barely) and

no NO paychecks! I am getting scared as to how I will eat, pay the

electric bills, the rent..and the list goes on.

Thank you all so very much for reading this long drawn out story..it

is sometimes so much better for me to put this into words in black and

white. Of course then there is the fact that nobody can understand

the pain much less the other troubles.

Feeling very low in Florida....self worthlessness.

Please feel free to comment..I am in so much need of someone to talk

to....Thank you...hugs....Dee in Florida.

To read these messages on the Hugs web site go to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hugs-N-Pain

you can contact me privately at starlyin@...

Rose

Owner/ Moderator Hugs N Pain

God Bless our Troops

Please Pray for them

[Guest guest]

Dee,

Hi my name is Charlene. I feel your pain and stress levels. Can you explain

what RDS is for me so I will have a better understanding of your problem. We

aren't here to judge anyone for we all are dealing with our own private wars

but I am willing to listen. I had allot of nerve involvement and they

called it something like this but I can't be sure. I have last year a left

hip and right knee replacements along with a staph infection for 2 months

afterwards.

Charlene

-- 3 Doctors Mistakes...13 Months Waiting

Good Afternoon,

It has been a while since I have wrote. Things hectic with no worker's

compensation doctor's appointments and 13 months later finally I can

be told the truth from my own doctors.(non-worker's compensation related)

July 9th, 2005 I had a serious fall at work, I can't tell you how many

doctors later and a surgery in Sept 2005 on my left knee and

leg....Things were only getting worse.

I finally got answers, however, some of them were answered already

such as RSD, my one worker's comp doctor diagnosed me with it...then

he denied the fact, lost the records and test results.

After being treated in the emergency room in April 2006 for a fall due

to my left leg and knee giving out, I had now injured my right arm and

aldner nerve leaving me paralized in that arm and hand for nearly 4

months. The hospital referred me to a neurologist who is presently my

treating doctor. Worker's comp has stopped paying entirely for any

care for myself since January 2006. As you are all aware that medical

treatment does not come cheap..and not having insurance it is even

worse. After the fall and things were not improving with leg and

right arm now, my neurologist ordered 3 MRI's on on my cervical, one

on my back and the other one my left leg and knee again. 7 weeks went

by and we could not get anybody to even look at me in the Orthopedic

profession since I was worker comp. Finally, a break through...To make

this a short ending..I was shocked to find out that the surgery that

was to have been performed last September, 2005...was NOT! Nothing

was ever done, other than incissions made and what ever else he did

inside my knee other than to fix it. Never in my life could I have

imagined such an outcome..shock! When I had fallen back in July, one

doctor told me I bruised the knee and sent me back to work 40 hours a

week. Things were not getting better, pain was out of this world and

I had requested a new doctor. This is when he diagnosed me with a

shattered knee on the inner portion. Before surgery he explained to us

what was going to be done and recovery. Two, Three, Four months had

passed and the knee in fact was not getting better. Just more painful

and larger. What the MRI films have shown now...is comparing the

before injury, 4 months after the surgery, and the newest MRI that was

done the beginning of June...NOTHING WAS DONE..NOT ONLY WAS THE INNER

PORTION OF THE KNEE SHATTERED, BUT THE LEFT WAS SHATTERED AS WELL,

TENDONS AND MUSCLES TORN. I am shaking my head as I write this, only

because I still cannot believe this has happened.

So with me having RSD, and now a leg that was never repaired or

fixed...I have been stumbling around (very little walking due to

pain)for 13 months and now it is the process of the waiting game.

The two doctor's that are treating me now do not know when surgery can

be done due to the RSD pain and severity it has developed.

I have never cried so much in my life...I need support now more than

every. I needed to vent...as I sit and cry as I type this. How can

this happen in todays medical field? How can these worker's comp

doctor's get away with this. To think that I went through months and

months of physical therapy...crying during therapy..and made to do

more and more..on a SHATTERED leg!

Honestly, as well as all you are aware...believe it or not we do know

our bodies. I am beside myself...I have been sitting behind 4 walls

for nearly 13 months...without the ability to walk but maybe 5 minutes

at the most. I feel like a prisioner of my own home.

I cannot begin to tell you how many times I begged the doctors to

please, help me! There reply was, there is nothing wrong with you.

I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I needed to vent..vent

to other than know the amount of pain that we go through on a day to

day basis. I have requested help for counseling and was denied that

to. I felt like I was spinning circles and nobody was ever going to

listen.

It seems like every road block that was put up..I found..every time I

tried to get through it there was a concrete wall...and every time I

tried to climb it..it got taller. Never in my life have I felt so

helpless. My attorney in the worker's compensation claim wasn't even

believing me when I would talk with him...NOW HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO

SAY TO ME...AND I AM ANGRY. It is not easy hiring another attorney in

the work comp field. Since the laws have changed (from what I have

been told) the laws are there to protect the insurance companies and

not the patients. Sad isn't this? What keeps going through my mind is

this...People get put into jail everyday for abuse to animals...but

here I am a human being and basically I have been denied medical care

and you name it...and nothing is being done to these people that lied,

treated me a lied and so on.

If anyone has any input what so ever, I am most happy to read what you

have to say...think...feel? Right now I am such an open book as I do

not know which way to turn anymore. My worker's comp pay has stopped,

due to my attorney canceling an appointment I knew NOTHING about. His

reason was..He is just like the rest of the doctors, he will tell you

that there is nothing wrong with you and send you to work. When I

expressed huge concern, did he realize the consquences when he did

this (non-compliance with WC)for not treating with their doctor..his

reply was no.

So you all can only imagine my stress level is ready to explode! No

healthcare, waiting on healthcare that we are paying for (barely) and

no NO paychecks! I am getting scared as to how I will eat, pay the

electric bills, the rent..and the list goes on.

Thank you all so very much for reading this long drawn out story..it

is sometimes so much better for me to put this into words in black and

white. Of course then there is the fact that nobody can understand

the pain much less the other troubles.

Feeling very low in Florida....self worthlessness.

Please feel free to comment..I am in so much need of someone to talk

to....Thank you...hugs....Dee in Florida.

To read these messages on the Hugs web site go to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hugs-N-Pain

you can contact me privately at starlyin@...

Rose

Owner/ Moderator Hugs N Pain

God Bless our Troops

Please Pray for them

[Guest guest]

This seems very close to my story./ It is so crazy that you have had such

similar insanity. Workers comp sucks, all the comp atty's stink and they

don't believe you or anyone else b/c they get lied to constantly. They take

huge

shunks of the award settlements. First, go to the Comp board, ask for

another hearing to reopen and reinstate your case. BE YOUR OWN ATTY> Read

comp

law books from the library. You will find strength to fight them with the

knowledge you aquire and it will help your will pwer and your pain. Keep your

focus and don't give up. Apply for SSD. Problem with suing comp docs is

that once you accept compensation, you give up right to sue, at least in NY.

I

always had my mother with me during exams p[lus I tape recorded every con

versation on microcasset I had during comp doctor exams. I played one for a

judge b/c what the doctor said to me was incredibly different from the report.

Judge ruled against them. I also would think of hiring an outside atty.

Don't be afraid to change comp attys. The reason they don't like to take on a

case from another atty is that there is not enough MONEY in it for them.

Persevere and contact them. Get appts to speak face to face for a comp

consult.

I feel you pain and frustration. I sued a doc who mamed me for malpractice

and my employer twice for discrimination and harassement. Could not sue

employer for the injury b/c I accepted comp. BIG MISTAKE> Debbie

[Guest guest]

This is exactly what I have. Thanks for the great explanation.

-- Re: 3 Doctors Mistakes...13 Months Waiting

What is RSD?

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSD) - also known as Complex Regional

Pain Syndrome (CRPS) - is a chronic neurological syndrome characterized by:

* severe burning pain

* pathological changes in bone and skin

* excessive sweating

* tissue swelling

* extreme sensitivity to touch

[For a complete description of RSD/CRPS symptoms, please read the _Diagnosis

section_ (http://www.rsds.org/3/clinical_guidelines/index.html#diagnosis) of

the Clinical Practice Guidelines section of this website].

There are Two Types of CRPS - Type I and Type II.

* CRPS Type I (also referred to as RSD) - cases in which the nerve

injury cannot be immediately identified

* CRPS Type II (also referred to as Causalgia) - cases in which a

distinct " major " nerve injury has occurred

* RSD/CRPS is best described in terms of an injury to a nerve or soft

tissue (e.g. broken bone) that does not follow the normal healing path

* RSD/CRPS development does not appear to depend on the magnitude of

the injury. The sympathetic nervous system seems to assume an abnormal

function

after an injury

* Since there is no single laboratory test to diagnose RSD/CRPS, the

physician must assess and document both subjective complaints (medical

history) and, if present, objective findings (physical examination).

Criteria for Diagnosing

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type I (RSD)

* The presence of an initiating noxious event, or a cause of

immobilization

* Continuing pain, allodynia, or hyperalgesia with which the pain is

disproportionate to any inciting event

* Evidence at some time of edema, changes in skin blood flow (skin

color changes, skin temperature changes more than 1.1°C difference from the

homologous body part), or abnormal sudomotor activity in the region of the

pain

* This diagnosis is excluded by the existence of conditions that would

otherwise account for the degree of pain and dysfunction

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type II (Causalgia)

* The presence of continuing pain, allodynia, or hyperalgesia after a

nerve injury, not necessarily limited to the distribution of the injured

nerve

* Evidence at some time of edema, changes in skin blood flow (skin

color changes, skin temperature changes more than 1.1°C difference from the

homologous body part), or abnormal sudomotor activity in the region of pain

* This diagnosis is excluded by the existence of conditions that would

otherwise account for the degree of pain and dysfunction.

[Guest guest]

Thank you all for those who have read my story...and for those of you

that have written back to me personally. It is hard to explain the

helplessness one feels and lack of belief and pain. I can honestly

say, you have all shared this unforgiving pain and other experiences

that are in your live's as well. I can truely feel all your pain and

then some. For us that live this each and every day...It is a wonder

how we can go forward. With groups like this, it makes it

possible..because we know that there are others like ourself out

there. We are all human..we breath, think, love, care, taste, smell,

feel and so on...God bless you all so very much for listening. If

ever you need an ear...I am here for you as well. Thank you!!!!

God Bless~Dee in Florida...

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[Guest guest]

Dee; Your dtory about criminal incompetence is no suprise to me!The medical

establishment coupled with do nothing attorneys has completely destroyed my

life I only wish I would have stayed home,or anything else in the world

besides laying down on that cursed operating table for what was supposed to

be minor outpateint surgery instead I got a stroke,amonth of various

hospitalsand a lifetime of intense pain from rsd good luck to you , get

back with me if you ever just need to ttalk .RSD Don.

>

> Good Afternoon,

> It has been a while since I have wrote. Things hectic with no worker's

> compensation doctor's appointments and 13 months later finally I can

> be told the truth from my own doctors.(non-worker's compensation related)

> July 9th, 2005 I had a serious fall at work, I can't tell you how many

> doctors later and a surgery in Sept 2005 on my left knee and

> leg....Things were only getting worse.

> I finally got answers, however, some of them were answered already

> such as RSD, my one worker's comp doctor diagnosed me with it...then

> he denied the fact, lost the records and test results.

> After being treated in the emergency room in April 2006 for a fall due

> to my left leg and knee giving out, I had now injured my right arm and

> aldner nerve leaving me paralized in that arm and hand for nearly 4

> months. The hospital referred me to a neurologist who is presently my

> treating doctor. Worker's comp has stopped paying entirely for any

> care for myself since January 2006. As you are all aware that medical

> treatment does not come cheap..and not having insurance it is even

> worse. After the fall and things were not improving with leg and

> right arm now, my neurologist ordered 3 MRI's on on my cervical, one

> on my back and the other one my left leg and knee again. 7 weeks went

> by and we could not get anybody to even look at me in the Orthopedic

> profession since I was worker comp. Finally, a break through...To make

> this a short ending..I was shocked to find out that the surgery that

> was to have been performed last September, 2005...was NOT! Nothing

> was ever done, other than incissions made and what ever else he did

> inside my knee other than to fix it. Never in my life could I have

> imagined such an outcome..shock! When I had fallen back in July, one

> doctor told me I bruised the knee and sent me back to work 40 hours a

> week. Things were not getting better, pain was out of this world and

> I had requested a new doctor. This is when he diagnosed me with a

> shattered knee on the inner portion. Before surgery he explained to us

> what was going to be done and recovery. Two, Three, Four months had

> passed and the knee in fact was not getting better. Just more painful

> and larger. What the MRI films have shown now...is comparing the

> before injury, 4 months after the surgery, and the newest MRI that was

> done the beginning of June...NOTHING WAS DONE..NOT ONLY WAS THE INNER

> PORTION OF THE KNEE SHATTERED, BUT THE LEFT WAS SHATTERED AS WELL,

> TENDONS AND MUSCLES TORN. I am shaking my head as I write this, only

> because I still cannot believe this has happened.

> So with me having RSD, and now a leg that was never repaired or

> fixed...I have been stumbling around (very little walking due to

> pain)for 13 months and now it is the process of the waiting game.

> The two doctor's that are treating me now do not know when surgery can

> be done due to the RSD pain and severity it has developed.

> I have never cried so much in my life...I need support now more than

> every. I needed to vent...as I sit and cry as I type this. How can

> this happen in todays medical field? How can these worker's comp

> doctor's get away with this. To think that I went through months and

> months of physical therapy...crying during therapy..and made to do

> more and more..on a SHATTERED leg!

> Honestly, as well as all you are aware...believe it or not we do know

> our bodies. I am beside myself...I have been sitting behind 4 walls

> for nearly 13 months...without the ability to walk but maybe 5 minutes

> at the most. I feel like a prisioner of my own home.

> I cannot begin to tell you how many times I begged the doctors to

> please, help me! There reply was, there is nothing wrong with you.

> I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I needed to vent..vent

> to other than know the amount of pain that we go through on a day to

> day basis. I have requested help for counseling and was denied that

> to. I felt like I was spinning circles and nobody was ever going to

> listen.

> It seems like every road block that was put up..I found..every time I

> tried to get through it there was a concrete wall...and every time I

> tried to climb it..it got taller. Never in my life have I felt so

> helpless. My attorney in the worker's compensation claim wasn't even

> believing me when I would talk with him...NOW HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO

> SAY TO ME...AND I AM ANGRY. It is not easy hiring another attorney in

> the work comp field. Since the laws have changed (from what I have

> been told) the laws are there to protect the insurance companies and

> not the patients. Sad isn't this? What keeps going through my mind is

> this...People get put into jail everyday for abuse to animals...but

> here I am a human being and basically I have been denied medical care

> and you name it...and nothing is being done to these people that lied,

> treated me a lied and so on.

> If anyone has any input what so ever, I am most happy to read what you

> have to say...think...feel? Right now I am such an open book as I do

> not know which way to turn anymore. My worker's comp pay has stopped,

> due to my attorney canceling an appointment I knew NOTHING about. His

> reason was..He is just like the rest of the doctors, he will tell you

> that there is nothing wrong with you and send you to work. When I

> expressed huge concern, did he realize the consquences when he did

> this (non-compliance with WC)for not treating with their doctor..his

> reply was no.

> So you all can only imagine my stress level is ready to explode! No

> healthcare, waiting on healthcare that we are paying for (barely) and

> no NO paychecks! I am getting scared as to how I will eat, pay the

> electric bills, the rent..and the list goes on.

> Thank you all so very much for reading this long drawn out story..it

> is sometimes so much better for me to put this into words in black and

> white. Of course then there is the fact that nobody can understand

> the pain much less the other troubles.

> Feeling very low in Florida....self worthlessness.

> Please feel free to comment..I am in so much need of someone to talk

> to....Thank you...hugs....Dee in Florida.

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