That's all very interesting. The radical diet...can you elaborate on that?

I've been thinking about what I can do to take better care of my liver. I once heard of a liver-cleansing supplement, but can't remember what it was.

I'm going to abstain from alcohol and do self-hypnosis to see if I can get this nodule to shrink. Anybody tried that yet?

I have been diagnosed with DD (doupytrons Disease) and i am only 23! My dad also has had it since 39 and his is aggresive and i think mine will be even more. (Doupytrons diathesis) I have been drinking fairly solidly since 17 and i have nodules on my knuckles of my ring fingers both hands, my little finger and my middle finger right hand. And a nodule on my left foot. No contractures as yet though! I have really slowed down the partying to see what happens in the next few years. But it did used to feel like the nodule had grown or been irritated by the alcohol. I believe it has something to do with it.
When you drink alcohol or eat shit food and do anything else that causes your body to become weaker it becomes less efficient at masking DD. The disease will show up in a weak body more than a strong one. I believe this is also why it is an older persons disease because their body is weaker allowing the DD to show through. Don't know about you but i'm changin my diet and everything! Dairy is really bad it contains growth hormones which will help DD as it is a growth disease. Go to a natural therapist for advice not just Western doctors.

I've pretty much cut out the drinking, except when everyone else is drinking around me and offering good wine.

The nodule does seem irritated the next day.

Thanks Mary Beth for telling me what that supplement is. I might check it out.

Fine....boozers have more DD. Perhaps....but I do not give a hoot! I go through a bottle of Jim Beam every night and I feel fine! Yeah...I have DD. I'll take a dose of NA now and then but I'll be damed if I will give up my booze!

I have DC and I don't drink, never have. So there ya go.