Re: Going to try tens unit .....has anyone with rsd on foot used it????

[Guest guest]

Hi Joann,

Have not posted in a long time but see you asking about the TENS

unit. I have used one for RSD in foot. It was a bit helpful for a

few months but after the RSD started to spread to other places I

found it to be more irritating than helpful. Also, the electrode

patches caused my skin to break out. Each person is different

however and if the RSD is confined to the foot you may have great

results. Here's hoping you do.

Blessings,

Granny B

> Well thanks for anyone that can tell me about how trying tens

unit

> helped or did not help you. I appreciate the time it takes.

> s Momma

> JoAnn

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much for the reply. I look forward to positive results. How have

you been. I have forgotten all about you " granny " but not your name. I

have been called granny since turned 39 so to me nice to have someone else

with granny name. I hope you are doing better and again thank you for

reply.

s Momma

JoAnn

Re: Going to try tens unit .....has anyone with

rsd on foot used it????

> Hi Joann,

> Have not posted in a long time but see you asking about the TENS

> unit. I have used one for RSD in foot. It was a bit helpful for a

> few months but after the RSD started to spread to other places I

> found it to be more irritating than helpful. Also, the electrode

> patches caused my skin to break out. Each person is different

> however and if the RSD is confined to the foot you may have great

> results. Here's hoping you do.

>

> Blessings,

>

> Granny B

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

> > Well thanks for anyone that can tell me about how trying tens

> unit

> > helped or did not help you. I appreciate the time it takes.

> > s Momma

> > JoAnn

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I understand about not wanting to seem like a whiner. I feel like

that a lot when I call my Dr. about something that's bothering me. I

have thought a lot about this since my visit to a hearing Dr. to have

the ringing in my Left ear checked out.(all OK, just deal with it).

She said that many people have ringing or aches but they just don't

talk about them, just go on and keep it to themselves. I find it is

extremely stresssful on my whole being to live with low-level pain

day in and day out, so I want to be as pain-free as possible.

But I do wonder what they say at the Dr. office when I call AGAIN

about my troubles.

Also, I have seen a tens unit mentioned before...what is it and what

does it do?

-Sharon, NY

In RSD-CRPSofAmerica , " JoAnn " <jftex1@s...> wrote:

> Not sure if having rsd in foot will make difference or not but

> thought I would ask about foot first as that is where rsd at on me.

> I just got the tens unit today and going to take Ultram and one

> other med forgotten name of but will ask about it once I get the

> prescription back from pharmacy.

> My doctor feels the sympathetic blocks helped alot and they did

as

> far as my veins in foot are not so tiny and my foot is not as

> dicolored or cold on outside but feels cold on inside.....how does

> one explain that and make any sense about it to a doctor. Don't

> want him thinking I am some hypocondriac or nuts. Anyway, wants to

> try these 2 new meds and tens unit for 3 weeks and see what

> happens. He knows have pace maker and the one new med can cause

> blood pressure to go down and mine crashes and also soars way up at

> times. So will be interesting to see what happens.

> Can you all handle the doctor touching your rsd....do you jump or

> pull back or cry or are you able to sit there and tell him it hurts

> but not show much emotion? I don't show much emotion but thing is

> after he has done all this touching and by time we are in car my

> foot is in agony. Not sure if should tell him or if I will just

> sound like whinner....I mean will he just look and think well duh

> what would you expect after being touched. Hate to look like idiot

> as do it often enough here.

> Well thanks for anyone that can tell me about how trying tens

unit

> helped or did not help you. I appreciate the time it takes.

> s Momma

> JoAnn

[Guest guest]

JoAnn,

I used to be able to handle the doctors touching my leg in the beginning....but, now, I have to sit on my hands when they touch my legs, and when they go and touch my arms....they just better hope that I don't punch them!

Technically, any doctor who's worked around RSD patients before, should already know what to expect when they go and touch the affected limb.....they are either safe, or, they are going to get the Sh*t beat out of them within seconds! The SSI docs were just darn lucky that I actually sat on my hands and only cussed them out and called him every 4 letter name that I could!! At one time, he did ask me why I was sitting on my hands...and I told him straight out that If I didn't, he would be needing a Plastic Surgeon, cause otherwise, no one, A Patient, Co-Worker, his Wife..not even his own MOTHER, would know who he was when he got home once I got done with him!!

Surprisingly enough, he totally understood THAT, and was very, VERY careful when he touched me once I said that. lol....It helped that Gene was in the room and was in a bad mood that day too....

Ok, about to fall asleep here on my keyboard. Good luck with the Ten's Unit! I know that while I was pregnant, I loved that little tiny machine....it was a life saver!!!!

Tonia

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Can you all handle the doctor touching your rsd....do you jump or pull back or cry or are you able to sit there and tell him it hurts but not show much emotion? I don't show much emotion but thing is after he has done all this touching and by time we are in car my foot is in agony. Not sure if should tell him or if I will just sound like whinner....I mean will he just look and think well duh what would you expect after being touched. Hate to look like idiot as do it often enough here. JoAnn

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[Guest guest]

Hi Joann,

Hope you do have good results with the TENS. My RSD spread so far

and wide that it would be a difficult choice where to even try it

these days. I have been down the whole month of January with a major

flare and also a nasty head cold that did not want to leave. Thanks

for asking.

As for the name........I have been Granny B since 1976 when I married

a man who had two grandaughters and they dubbed me Granny B to keep

their 3 grandmothers seperate. When I began my very small knitting

business in 1985 it seemed only natural to go with the name Granny B

Creations. Now there are 9 more grandchildren and 2 great

grandchildren who all call me Granny B. When my mother was living

she was always know to all her little ones as Granny, so it is a term

I think of as endearing. Nice to talk with you.

Blessings,

Granny B

> Thanks so much for the reply. I look forward to positive results.

How have

> you been. I have forgotten all about you " granny " but not your

name. I

> have been called granny since turned 39 so to me nice to have

someone else

> with granny name. I hope you are doing better and again thank you

for

> reply.

> s Momma

> JoAnn

> Re: Going to try tens unit .....has

anyone with

> rsd on foot used it????

>

>

> > Hi Joann,

> > Have not posted in a long time but see you asking about the TENS

> > unit. I have used one for RSD in foot. It was a bit helpful for

a

> > few months but after the RSD started to spread to other places I

> > found it to be more irritating than helpful. Also, the electrode

> > patches caused my skin to break out. Each person is different

> > however and if the RSD is confined to the foot you may have great

> > results. Here's hoping you do.

> >

> > Blessings,

> >

> > Granny B

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > > Well thanks for anyone that can tell me about how trying tens

> > unit

> > > helped or did not help you. I appreciate the time it takes.

> > > s Momma

> > > JoAnn

> >

> >

> >