The Next Step...
After a few months, I began putting on some weight and some of my CRPS symptoms settled. There is no apparent reason for this and I have learnt never to look a gift horse in the mouth, as the saying goes. My arms stayed painful, but most of the oedema and colour change reduced markedly. Throughout 2010 I stayed fairly stable, but towards the end of the year my pain flared again very badly. Just before Christmas I returned to hospital again, where I had another ketamine infusion. This was done at a much lower dose than the first time, and I responded better to it than previously. I had three whole days of being able to walk with crutches rather than using my wheelchair before the effects wore off!! Because of the brilliant result we repeated the infusion in mid-January 2011 year but all it managed this time was to make me sick and dizzy, which was devastating.