According to what I have been told there are several medical conditions which act as indicators for dupuytrens. This dosen't mean that they cause Dupuytrens or vice versa, just that if you have one you are more likely to have the other. It also doesn't mean they don't although you will see speculation that there is a causal relationship. I have been unable to find any studies indicating such causal relationship.

The ones I have been told about are Thyroid, Liver Enzyme, Diabeties (sp), and Phenobarbital usage (used to prevent seizures). I do have Dupuytrens, bad, and have been tested as negative for Thyroid, Liver Enzyme, and Diabeties. I do take Phenobarbital, but since it is to prevent seizures after brain surgrery, it isn't considered in the same category.

This is interesting, as is the disease itself, medically speaking. Both brothers and myself contracted Dupuytrens through our father. Our mother is Dupuytren-free yet she has been on thyroid medicine for decades.

Other curiosities: 1) None of us have curvature/bending of the finger symptoms--and hope we never get that affliction--time will tell 2) All four of us have (had) Garrods pads but Dad's disappeared suddenly in his mid-sixties 3) My younger brother and I have Ledderhose, but my older brother and my father do not.

Strange disease, to say the least.

Last year I noticed my first "lump" on my palm. I am a white, female, 59 y/o with no genetic link to the disease to my knowledge and I am Ukranian and Russian so I don't really fit the profile. I am now getting more "lumps --nodes" in my palm. I did have surgery to remove the first one so the doctor could see what it was. I have, also, been on Thyroid medication for 6 years for hypothyroidism, and have had plantar's fasciaitis, myofascial syndrome, dry eyes, a bout of alopecia and a "non-specific" auto-immune disease (not scleraderma or lupus). Can anyone recommend a physician who could sort of link all this together? What kind of a physician would you even go to? A rheumatologist, an endrocrinologist???

I was diagnosed 5 years ago with hypothyroidism, and I'm on medication. Last April I was diagnosed with Dupuytren's....nodules in both hands, stiffness and pain, but no contractures.

What is the correlation between hypothyroidism and Dupuytren's?

Barbara

Thanks for the information....I did Goggle and found quite a bit of information....also that diabetes has a similiar connection.

Because there seems to be a "link" between the two conditions, what can be done to treat the hypothyroidism that could influence the progression of Dupuytren's? And, the same for diabetes.

Has anyone followed any particular diet that has helped?

Barbara