I injured my right hand 17 years ago. A growth grew
on the spot, and never realized was causing my
ring finger to contract some years ago.

I was diagnosed with DC 2 years ago, and
the operation took 2 hours. The doctor took out
6 inches of the offensive material from the palm
of my.

Following that, the sutures had cured, but the
4 fingers started to contract with great pain.
A year later, the doctor had to operate "by
revisions of the scar tissue". The relief was
that my 4 fingers cover almost full movement.

However, there remained a painful drepression
in thee dead center of the right palm of my
have, that slightly causing the re-contraction
of all 4 fingers of my right hand.

My doctor (a very good plastic surgeon on hands).
is refusing to operate and remove that cause of the
depression, that is curling, and causig great
pain in the right hand.

How does one deal with a good doctor who will eventually
have to deal with this issue ?

John Graboski






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i also have pain and lots of it, i can not stick my hands in my pockets, open doors, and write, all hurts, but not all the time, every once in a while the pain goes away for a day or two, and the motion returns, but i am seeing less and less of those days, my doc says it is trigger finger, DS and arthritis, not sure myself, i go to an orth surgeon on fri oct 31, what can i look forward too, how do i know if he is just a surgery happy doc?

tammy

Tammy,
It just depends on what is the nature of your surgery. If you have all of the problems you mentioned, it will be different than the surgery for just Dupuytren's.
For Dupuytren's there is generally very little pain. I never had to take the prescribed pain pills. I was at the hospital for about 5 hours, mostly sitting around. The surgery took about two hrs. and then I was on my way home with my wife driving because of the anesthetic residual. My hand was wrapped. The wrapping came off in about 5 days.
My hand/finger is now the same as pre- Dupuytren's with no scar tissue. Some people react differently to surgery (all surgery), but usually it is routine. Be sure you are dealing with a hand micro-surgeon who is very familiar with Dupuytren's.
Good luck.

Hola y'all,
Pain? No pain!
Smoke a pipe of herb.
No pain.
Best treatment I know.
DC be gone!

On the Lariboisiere Hospital web site, DR. Lermuiaux
stated that Ledderhose nodules can be treated with a
combination of cortisone injection and Needle Aponevrotomy.
I have no opinion; however, you might consider following
up on his post. Dr. Lermusiaux's posts are under the
name webmaster JLL on the web site. I had NA on my hand.
My Ledderhose is not a major problem to date. If it
progresses, I plan to consult with the Lariboisiere group.
Hope this is of interest to you.