Any info on CRPS treatment?

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I have a brother-in-law with CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) and

was wondering if anyone here knew anything about it and if anything

would help him out. It was also called Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

syndrome and causalgia at one time.

Thanks for any info,

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--- , " gdawson6 " <gdawson6@...> wrote:

> I have a brother-in-law with CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome)

> andwas wondering if anyone here knew anything about it and if

> anything would help him out. It was also called Reflex sympathetic

> dystrophy syndrome and causalgia at one time.

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I googled to find out more about CRPS and found this article on WebMD

that describes symptoms and suspected causes, but of course only

suggests conventional treatments:

http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/guide/crps

I checked Dr Mercola's web site and this was the top article:

http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_testimonials2.htm

It has reader testimonials about problems with sucralose and

aspartame. One reader said:

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I have just recently started researching the dangers of Splenda. About

two years ago I began drinking Fruit20 water made by Veryfine. That's

when my problems started, but I didn't start putting things together

until just now. Two years ago I got Bells Palsy on the left side of my

face. One week into that I was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia

because of the excruciating pain along with the palsy. Still kept

drinking the water ... long story short. Fourteen months later I got

Bells Palsy on the right side of my face along with trigeminal

neuralgia on the right side also--now I'm bi-lateral, doctors seem to

think this is rare ... still kept drinking the water and mixing with

meds, pain gets worse, and now they tell me I have a neurological

disorder called Atypical Facial Pain with the bonus disorder of

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome ... still kept drinking the water.

I finally get smart and start thinking about my two-year history and

think about the Splenda in the water and that leads me to you. I truly

in my heart think I have been poisoned by either Splenda or aspartame,

although I do not knowingly use aspartame.

Putting my whole story in an e-mail is very difficult, but I have

stopped drinking the Fruit20 for six days now and at least my feet

have stopped tingling. Hopefully, some of the other things that are

going wrong are reversible. I am only 44 years old. I believe they

need to take this awful product off the market.

UPDATE: I stopped using Splenda on June 1, 2004 and any aspartame that

I may have been getting in error (I now read all labels). I am now

pain free, which is amazing because I was using a morphine patch for

the pain and percocet for the break-through pain. I stopped using pain

meds on July 4, 2004 and have only had to use 1 1/2 tablets of

percocet since then. I must have gotten one of the two poisons when I

went out to eat but the pain comes back within two hours of ingestion.

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Is your brother-in-law a heavy sucralose/aspartame user?