Dupuytren's Contracture

[watervole]

Today confirmed what I'd been pretty convinced of for the last month or two.

I originally thought the pain in my palm was caused by too much typing, but dougs said it was almost certainly Dupuytren's Contracture and when I looked at the web site http://www.dupuytren-online.info/morbus_dupuytren.html I was inclined to agree. The symptoms matched too well.

I went to see the doctor who was insistant that it could equally well be a cyst, but in the six weeks until today's ultrasound appointment, the symptoms were becoming more developed.

BAck to the doctor's next week. If the web sites I've looked at are correct then there are forms of treatment that are only effective in the early stages. Later stages require surgery and the effects aren't always permanent.

I've go a suspicion that it's starting on my other hand as well. There's a sore spot in exactly the wrong place... My hypermobility tends to mask some of the effects. (I can bend my fingers further than most people, hence the normal symptom of being unable to straighten out the fingers doesn't show until the lumps are further progressed)

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

But you might be a viking!

http://www.pncl.co.uk/~belcher/information/Dupuytren%27s%20contracture.pdf

Reading through some of that (and other places) the surgery sounds relatively minor (though you'll have to find a moisturising cream that will work with your sensitivities) but as you say, it can recur (at least that site has warnings that it's more likely to recur in 20-40 year olds so you're nearing the end of that range(!)) and the worst surgery is if it has caused your fingers to bend in horrible positions for too long, which also doesn't sound like your situation ... so it sounds like you're in good shape for surgery to make a substantial positive difference.

good luck

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Bah, beat me to it with the Viking comment!

My father has (had? not entirely sure how it works), and it was a fairly small op to cut it so that his hand lay flat again.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh dear... here's hoping and wishing it can be sortd out quickly and treated effectively {hugs}

[kerravonsen]

{hugs}