OT Drs: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Chronic condition post nerve injury. It has symptoms other than pain that are objective.

Not a doctor though.

ICD-10 bro, Diagnosis Code G90.5

Much worse than fibromyalgia. Imagine the throttle sticking on your car without you pressing the gas. The engine's RPM really do get high and redline....but you are not doing anything to cause it.

This is kinda like CRPS.....the body suffers a small or moderate trauma....but the body's nerves take over like it is in constant pain and keeps sending horrific pain signals to the brain. It is bad stuff.

They are experimenting with putting people into medicated comas to "re-set" the brain and nervous system.

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MRI of affected area was unremarkable

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There can be no MRI findings for Type 1 CRPS.

Gotcha

Not a dr but I have it and it is most certainly "real" It used to be called reflex sympathetic dystrophy. It occurs usually after a bone break when a limb is immobilized to heal. A nerve is damaged and sensations in the area go haywire. In most cases, the affected are shows physical observable symptoms like swelling, discoloration and excessive hair growth. My toenails were scary. IIf left untreated the nerve can die resulting in loss of mobility in a foot, hand, arm etc. It's awful. The pain is indescribable and pain pills do not help. I felt like my leg was on fire, not sunburn fire, but literally on fire. I cannot express how horrible it was - 100x worse than the initial compound fracture.
I had to get monthly epidurals for 2 years. I'm okay now, but I will get phantom pains and sensations - like Ive stepped in an ant bed. Sometimes my foot will fall asleep while walking or standing - that's always good for a laugh or two.
Neurontin would help this, but that shite makes you fat and dumb, so I won't take it - I just deal with it.

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Made up diagnosis like IBS, fibromyalgia, interstial cystitis, etc... so they can explain something after after every test in the sun has come back normal. Many others, all psychiatric related... he needs to deal with his ptsd if he really did anything.

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Good thing you’re not a doctor.

Type I—RSD, typically an arm or leg
Type 2–Causalgia, follows a nerve/dermatomal distribution.

Look for lack of hair growth, lack of sweat or excess sweat over the region affected. It happens after a prior injury/surgery.