Workers Comp Help
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome From Warehouse Injury
In 1997 I was working in a warehouse. I ended up hyper extending my thumb on the right hand. It took a year to find out why I was in so much pain.
They diagnosed me with reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome. So I transferred in to a store where I was an department manager. I was permanently put on light duty to the RSD.
Well in February I ended up spraining my wrist, on my left hand. The rsd spread quick. The self insured workers comp kept denying any treatment.
Here I am 1 1/2 years later after the second injury, I am permanently disabled. I'm presently on 15 different medicines. I have to pay out of my pocket the expenses because workers compensation self insure won't pay.
I have evidence of rsd and how it relates to my injuries but know ones cares. All I get done is go to doctors and lawyers. It's not fair that the decisions of the hearing officers, won't take any medical evidence into account. They won't go by your doctor who treats you every day but they will take the word of a company doctor who has never seen you before and probably never see again.
It is just not fair to the injured worker. Ohio needs to look into issues better!