I'd been expecting to need treatment knowing of my father's treatment. He's 90 with 13 instances of hand surgery since the late 1950s after coming out of the army.

He told me of going into the London Hospital waiting room back them to be greeted by a roomful of men with finger stumps.

Having ridden a motorcycle in the army he was told that this probably provoked the condition. I was about twice the age before my first op last year for a small finger at around 60 degrees.

I'm here having found this site with relation to therapy with supplements as I can now see the disease progressing to another finger.

Jeff

Hi Wolfgang,

I happened to come across the reference to NAC as treatment and elsewhere Aceytl L Carnitine

I just happened to have purchased some of the latter a few months ago believing it might improve my stamina but didn't use it because then I found our that the problem was leukemia (CML) which is fortunately now under control.

I'd read also the Glucosamine might provoke my duypetrens. I'd been taken it in the belief that I had a cartilage problem but stopped when this too turned out to be s symptom of my leukemia which has disappeared since my treatment with a drug called Gleevec.

Wondering if anyone here has reports of improvement from either of these supplements.

Jeff