I'm 42 and was diagnosed about a year ago with dupuytren's with a nodule on my left middle finger and thicken of the tendon on my index finger on the same hand. I also have knuckle padding on both hands that none of the doctors I had seen knew what they were until I was diagnosed by a specialist. In the last 12 months I have developed an additional nodule on my left ring finger, as well as nodules on my right pinky, ring and middle fingers of my right hand, with the weird thickening on the tendon to my right index finger. They all hurt to varying degrees, some days worse than others. I don't have any contraction yet, but I can feel tightening in my palms compared to just a few months ago.

I don't know a whole lot about dupuytren's. I wasn't overly concerned at first, especially since my doctors didn't seem very concerned themselves. I think the first two I saw didn't even know what it is (military docs). I am assuming from some brief reading that this could be considered an aggressive case?

I have gone in to complain about it several times as they hurt, but I keep getting told there is nothing that can be done until they contract to a certain point. I am kind of stuck with the doctors I have to deal with being military, though I will be retiring within the year. Not sure how the VA docs will be.

What can I do to help this?

What sort of treatments can I try to seek out?

Edited 09/22/15 15:16

Welcome to the forum RedHaze

Stefan is right, not much in the way of treatment to be done before contracture, except RT if the symptoms indicate active progression (which it sounds like they do). Otherwise keep a record of symptoms, changes, review risk factors, some protection for your hands if you do sports or manual labour type of work, and investigate who you can have RT with.

Lots of info on our site, happy reading, come back when ready with more questions.

Best wishes SB

When you say nodes in your fiingers, are they actually in the fingers or in your palm? All of my nodes are in my palms.