And I'm pretty tough.
A little history...female, 56 years old.
Back surgery (herinated disk) exactly one year ago.
5 months later...shoulder surgery. Doc released bicep tendon that was shredded.
3 months later, other shoulder...same pain, still haven't seen doc yet...trying to wait it out to see if it gets better.
2 weeks ago.....small, hard nodule to right foot to instep...now with mild pain.
2 days ago...burning *pulling* type pain to palm of left hand and slight pain to right hand also. No nodule yet, but I can barely see and feel a cord.
So, I see family doc today...who diagnosed me with Dupuytens.
My father had it badly in one hand, also my older brother...although at that time, I didn't know the name of the disease.
I am so overwhelmed. I actually ache over my entire body especially at night.
I found the board and honestly don't know where to even start. Doc told me there is really no good treatment. I assume he would refer me to someone if things get worse.
I didn't even know (and I'm not sure he did) about the shoulder connection until I read it on this site.
Any ideas...tips at this stage?
Thanks

I was in your shoes about a month ago. I'm starting radiation next week and hope it helps some.

With all the data that says this affects males at a much higher number I wonder why there aren't more male posters. Just something I've noticed.

You may be right that glucosamine/chondrotin accelerated the disease. But too late anyway. Did you see the last section of
http://www.dupuytren-online.info/dupuytr...therapies.html?

Wolfgang

Now-what:

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As much as I hate that there are other people suffering with this, I am happy to have a group to comisserate with.
Another interesting thing I've found (after the fact) is that there may be a connection between glucosamine/chondrotin. Funnily enough I had started taking this a few weeks before the foot nodules/palm pain began. I'm sure the disease was probably already there, but I do feel it accelerated it. Something I thought would be beneficial to my various aches and pains may have in fact helped them along

I have also just been diagnosed and don't know where to begin. I am a 59 year old female. My right hand is involved and have had problems with my feet for nearly 4 years. I am a cancer survivor and many of these symptoms have occured after taking a powerfull chemothearapy drug. I am also on medication that causes me to loose calcium. At present they are monitoing my blood sugars. I exercise regularily several times a week.
Where do I begin?

Really sorry to hear about all the problems you are having at once. Please take a look at my earlier post titled "lack of sunlight and auto-immune disease. There is a growing evidence that all these problems could be a result of chronic low levels of Vitamin D. Get your level checked as soon as possible. Below is a recent article from CNN's Sanjay Gupta about the Vitamin D deficiency -Auto-immune disease link. Hope the info helps.

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/...?iref=allsearch

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