Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome - Is myotonia a condition of RSD?

This makes it easier for me to look at your symptoms while answering your question-what's the same or different betwee us.

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Okay- I love cold-. When my RSD is bothering me I get shooting pain in the affected areas-mostly my breast and little finger from cold. A year ago-it was 20 below and I walked my hounds at midnight. We came back covered with blowing snow and ice. A breast biopsy did it to me-and my hand turned black. The pain makes me fatigued. I didn't have cramps-and don't have RSD cramps-it was a radiating/stabbing pain-most of my friends complained about the radiating pain. Might get a little relief with codiene-morphine- but a bump or vibration from a steering wheel set it off again. Are you on statins-because the night sweating and muscle contractions are side effects caused by statins. My doctor labeled them as seizures. Back to the RSD- I could only sleep an hour or 2 at night-the strongest pain killers worked for that long and I was like the living dead. The contractions caused by RSD are slow working and long term. It seems that I spend about half of my life in a hot bath tub and doing stretches and using light weights to keep my right side flexible and functioning. Atrophy is actually the type of muscles contracting-some call it a form of muscle wasting because the muscle shrinks. Muscle pain in joints and range of motion is also a side effect from statins used in reducing chlorestral. I'm now going to specialists for that. I think it's worse because of the RSD. My shoulder muscles began hurting so much that I had back spasms 2 weeks ago. X-Rays showed a healthy shoulder blade and collar bone.