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12/13/2001 23:28
Mattnot registered
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12/13/2001 23:28
Mattnot registered
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Re: Another View
Thanks for the story, Lynn. I appreciate the encouraging attitude.
The windsurfing is a good metaphor for dealing with this.
Matt
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12/19/2001 23:58
Johnnot registered
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12/19/2001 23:58
Johnnot registered
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Just been diagnosed with Dupuytrens in the hands but have a foot question
I've had the nodules on my hands for awhile, but just got diagnosed with DC. My question is, I have had foot pain 24/7/365 for the last 4-5 years along the arch, I went to all kinds of military doctors (I was in the military) no real diagnoses. I don't seem to have any nodules on my foot, so could this be Ledderhose. Thanks
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12/19/2001 23:20
jim hnot registered
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12/19/2001 23:20
jim hnot registered
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foot pain
I'm not a doctor. But my understanding is that Ledderhose is more or less defined as the presence of nodules on the foot - perhaps preceded by a thickening of the affected tissue - and it may or may not be painful. I believe it's pressure on the lumps that causes the pain - while DC in the hands is not normally painful at all. So I doubt Ledderhose is what you have. Again - I'm not an expert, just a person with DC and Ledderhose (which in my case are not painful).
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12/29/2001 23:24
Sherry Schocknot registered
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12/29/2001 23:24
Sherry Schocknot registered
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foot pain
I have DC in my hand, recently diagnosed. I don't have nodules in my feet but the physical therapist says I have plantar fascitis (spelling?) which can be a pre-cursor to getting the foot nodules.
She told me to stretch that area of my foot by rolling my feet over a tennis ball. This really helps. If I have a lot of pain, she said to take a refigerated can of soda pop or similar size can, and use that instead. That really helps, too.
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01/20/2002 23:44
jonnot registered
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01/20/2002 23:44
jonnot registered
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help! dp and nhs have ruined my life
i need help moral and physical support. despite many visits to the best orthopedic surgeon in my area, dp was never mentioned. i have suffered the ongoing collapse of my left hand over the last five years. i was removed from (uk) incapacity benefit by tribunal because i could not name my disease. dp in hands is obvious. is this surgeon(mr gallager) a cretin. i have not had a job for 10 yearsn noone will take the risk(re disability dicrim act), i am also finding that websites about OT and safety, ergonomics etc, blocked from public net access points. the r4elated depression i suffer from is unbearable. grade six spanish guitar,realy good three ball juggling, lovelife, etc- need i say more. i am only thirty years old. how can i save 20000 dollars or so for proceedures in usa hand clinics as uk nhs is directly responsable for a chain of bad diagnoses offering what would have been the wrong ops in hands. i could rant on and on. I have suffered cysts on the central knuckels of both hands, total collapse of left little finger, the left anular is rapidly collapsing, left thumb is locked up. this leaves me with five working fingers total. i need surgery, OT and physiotherapy now, not some waiting list. my working life is draining away. can anybody help me. please please email me some support. i realy am fed up with the ritual abuse i get as a disabled person in NORWICH UK. please respond. it was the recent "blood of the vikings" tv series that to9ld me about dp(inheritable through nordic european ancestry). should our diagnoses be by tv programme and the internet or at an orthopedic clinc that should know the diseases that it is meant to be able to treat. painfull and mashed up and scared(and scarred) for life.
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07/23/2002 23:40
darlene not registered
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07/23/2002 23:40
darlene not registered
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plantar fibroma
My mom has been dignosed with this, and she is not sure what it is. She have the big knot under the right foot and she has two pea size knots under the left foot. she has been subscribed some medication and has had one shot of the cordizone so far . if any one knows what causes this or what can be done please let us know .
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08/09/2002 23:01
Leslienot registered
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08/09/2002 23:01
Leslienot registered
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Ledderhose disease
Just tell your mother to avoid surgery. She will get ten more lumps in its place within months.
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05/05/2003 23:49
Nancy Duggannot registered
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05/05/2003 23:49
Nancy Duggannot registered
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Hopeless?
God, I've been researching all day on the web and I see nothing but information that causes me despair. My foot doctor helpfully informed me that these lumps will "either get worse or better." I am a 49 year old bartender with two egg yolk sized lumps on the left arch and countless pea sized ones on the right. Will someone out there please inform me of a miracle cure?
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05/05/2003 23:05
Mary Beth & Richardnot registered
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05/05/2003 23:05
Mary Beth & Richardnot registered
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Ledderhose disease in feet
Nancy, Unfortunately much of what we have found in the way of research is more about dupuytrens in hands. We have read a little about Ledderhose and need to read more as Richard has it in the left foot, though not to the degree you describe. Much info you will see on Ledderhose states that it recurrs with a vengeance to surgery or any type of treatment. We don't know, as Richard has had no treatments of any kind to feet. He is about to try the Talon Industry topical verapamil on the nodules in his feet. His Dermo- tologist has prescribed it for him. The only thing that I have read regarding the surgery for Ledderhose, which may or may not be applicable to recurrence is that when surgery is performed and there is failure to remove the plantar aproneurosis when a modular mass is present that it invites recurrence. Have also read, but do not know, that lidocaine/hydrocortisone applications have helped some people. Good luck, Mary Beth & Richard
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05/05/2003 23:42
Sean
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05/05/2003 23:42
Sean
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Ledderhose
Nancy, No miracle cure that I know. Preventative care is very important (at least for me). I have nodules in each arch and have noticed that stretching the arch(walking barefoot in sand, going up stairs barefooted) to a point of doing damage (a burning sensation), creates problems. Shoes are extremely important. Surgery should not be done except as a very last resort.
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