RSD

This is my first post on my newly created blog. I don't know if anyone will ever see this and read it, or if it will always be just a place for me to vent my feelings, but I felt that it was something I should do. I have to go to school in a few minutes so I don't really have time to waste. So I'll make it short and touch things up later. My name is Becca and I am seventeen years old. The pain of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy began when I was nine...although I wasn't diagnosed until I was almost eleven. I went from crutches to wheelchair, wheel chair to quad cane, quad cane to reqular cane, reqular can to walking slowly by my self and eventually to the point I am today. I fought my pain because I refused to give up, but of course I still am battling RSD. My pain has never really gotten much better. It is less than it was before treatment, but it is still a very prominent part of my life. I am in pain 24/7 and I am generally very tired too. The RSD is in both legs, and recently I have been displaying RSD like symptoms in both wrists...but nothing has been diagnosed yet. I go to a GI specialist soon to see why I've been feeling very nauseous and sick to my stomach all the time. I barely eat anymore because of it. So whenever I get answers you'll know. I have to go brush my teeth, try and see if I can wear shoes, and put my contacts in for school.