Hello,

New user here, And nice to have found this place.

My story biefly:

A few years back, I had surgery for at tiny knot in my hand. I had been a drummer for many years and I think that's what provoked it forth a bit prematurely (I was about 29, 32 now). My right hand is fine, I have some hardened tissue around the area where the knot was cut out, but no annoyances related to that, whatsoever. But now, I have this numbing, tingling sensation in my left pinkyfinger (the same sensation you get when you've been sleeping, laying on an arm og perhaps sitting on a leg) and when I massage my elbow, I can feel a reaction down in that particular finger.

1) What should I be doing from here?
2) Since this genetic marker is rather unique (as I understand it), I'm also thinking it can be used to backtrack my own genetic history. How would I go about this? Has anyone here perhaps done this already?
3) How concerned should I be about all the things it's supposedly connected with? (alcoholism, liverdisease Smoking- or drinking activity, Diabetes, Thyroid problems and Epilepsy)

My father died of smoking- and drinking related cancer at 52...

I'm male by the way...

Bye for now,

Thank you VERY much for your answers.

There's two more questions I have (for now)

1) How common (in rough percentage) is for people with this disease, to also develop Peyronies disease?

2) A link I saw on handcenter.org http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10597922?dopt=Abstract
[urlhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11781116?dopt=Abstract[/url] speaks of an increased mortality rate of 22%! This sounds very ominous to me

There's two more questions I have (for now)

1) How common (in rough percentage) is for people with this disease, to also develop Peyronies disease?

A: I have seen numbers only for th other direction: about 15 - 20 percent of Peyronie's patients suffer from Dupuytren's as well.

2) A link I saw on handcenter.org http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10597922?dopt=Abstract
[urlhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11781116?dopt=Abstract[/url] speaks of an increased mortality rate of 22%! This sounds very ominous to me

A: agreed. Though the reason why people die earlier seems to remain unclear. I also wonder whether they seperated men and women when they did their statistics. Men get Dupuytren's earlier, reflected in a higher percentage being treated for Dupuytren's. Men also die earlier. Maybe that's all. I am suspicious about mere statistical correlations. Very high correlation that rain is caused by people using umbrellas.

Wolfgang