Beth
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                        
                        
                        I also had RSD.  I had 10 sympathetic nerve blocks, acupuncture, soft laser treatments and homeopathic therapies.  Stop eating chocolate, caffeine, and red meat.  They contain neurotoxins which make the pain worse.  I was confined to a wheel chair and the disease had spread to my heart and lungs as well as the right side of my body.  I am now walking and regaining my strength.  I go to weekly therapy with trained PT in RSD.  Good luck and God Bless!  Some people are able to take medication.  I am allergic.  Neurontin is supposed to help.