Aspiring to be a higher class than one is. Derived from bourgeois - meaning middle/upper class, traditionally despised by communists. When my friend Miya wears a blazer or Lucy gets a massage I call them bougie cause we're unemployed college students. by indi June 23, 2004.
But since the nerve pathways of the spine and the brain are involved in the syndrome, the heart can be involved in addition to the stress of the RSD/CRPS and the losses it entails and the pain and depression that are part of it.
RSD is one form of disturbance of the function of the autonomic nervous system. Simply having a hyperactive sympathetic nervous system does not make RSD. The disturbance of the autonomic system comprises several diseases, some. acquired, some genetic, some metabolic, some traumatic, etc.