My surgeon gave me RSD!

I was having so much pain in my right foot and everyday it got worse. So I finally went to see a podiatrist for help. He told me I had a tumor in my foot and something called plantar fascia and that I needed to have surgery to fix these problems. I had the surgery. It didn't work! And that was after he pumped me full of cortisone time after time after time, which didn't work either. So my family doctor told me to go see an Orthopedic Specialist. So I went to see the one who saw my son when he was two years old and had problems walking because he would trip over his own feet. This doctor fixed my son's problems without any surgery. He just used special inserts put into any and every pair of shoes he had to wear for the next two years. I was very impressed with this doctor so I went to see him.

He tells me the podiatrist was wrong by telling me that I had a tumor and plantar faciaotomy, turns out he says I had tarsal tunnel syndrome and to correct it I would need surgery, as if you guys didn't know that was coming. I had the surgery and still continued to have the pain but now it was worse and further up my leg. This doctor made me believe that something I did made the Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome come back and he needed to do the surgery again.

Not only did I have that surgery, but I had several others because this doctor was the head of orthopedic surgery for a local hospital in my area and I believed what he was telling me.

Well, after I had my ankle totally rebuilt and an operation called a Lumbar Sympathetic Dystrophy (LSD); that's where they make a six inch incision in your lower abdomen, move a few vital organs out of the way and sever the nerve that controls the portion of your leg, ankle, foot or wherever you are feeling the pain. But before the Neurologist can do the LSD he has an anesthesiologists give you several surgeries where they put you to sleep and give you extremely long needles full with a solution that makes your nerve numb for a few days, this they call Sympathetic Nerve Blocks and they just inject a different nerve every time until they figure out which nerve they have to sever.

After 27 surgeries in 5 years to get rid of the pain things are only worse after seeking an appointment with one of the top Orthopedic Surgeon and Neurologist they tell me that all the surgeries the first two doctors did to relieve the pain they actually caused me to get RSD.

So now along with my Fibromyalgia and RSD I get the pleasure of spending the rest of my life taking the 29 prescription medications plus the prescription I was given for the pain I am relegated to take just to ease some of my pain and be able to function enough to make it through my day. Not to mention how this has affected my husband and family.

So if you are told you have RSD really do your homework before the doctors helping you talk you into having surgery!

Mrs Blatt, USA