Donna, it seems like you have the first symptoms of DP.
Should you see a doctor ? From what you write, I think it would just be a waste of time and money, since any doctor will tell you just to wait and see how it evolves.
No cure ? Right.
My advice would be to just forget about it, you wouldn't be the first to live for the rest of your life without the need for any kind of 'surgery'.

Donna:
I agree with Eddie
save your money
sure sounds like dupuytren's and since there is NO CURE - at least for now- I too would suggest you wait and see how this progresses and BEST of all keep reading all the posts these wonderful people are sending in.
I've really been helped a lot here.
In a few weeks I am going to FL to Dr Eaton's office for treatment on both hands. (I have Ledderhose on my feet too).
My progression has taken 10 years to get to the point I need surgery... hope you have the slow grower!
We are all hoping there WILL be a cure in the not too distant future!


Good luck, MIriam

www.dupuytrens-a-new-theory.com
www.lynndketchum.com/
Both are very good and informative sites.
Where do you live? Where did your family originate?
How old were you when you got DC? What kind do you have?
email or post these on the site. We can all learn from each other. We have children and grandchildren who can benefit from a support group. It is up to us to make this disease known worldwide so there can be more research done.
We need to write to our goverment and educate them about this disease. Look how long it took for AIDs to get attention. We could all be dead and our children fighting this disease before someone decides to do domething about it. I myself did not know what it was until 1996 and my mother had it in the early eighties. Her doctor did not know what it was either, nor the health insurance companies.

I live in New Orleans, Louisiana. My family has been traced back to the Netherlands. I was 47 years old when I went to my derm. and he told me it was DC. He said I should see a surgeon right away. And see one right away I did. I was afraid I would be paralized like my mother if I didn't. He did surgery in 2000, and it's been downhill since. Three surgeries later and I've lost my small motor skills in my left hand. I can't work. I had to sell my business. My husband is 70 years old with a bad heart and he is afraid to retire. We don't know what is going to happen.
We have three children-- three granddaughters, and I worry that one of them will get this disease.
Let's get all the information gathered on this disease that we can before we lose the ability to do so.
God bless.
Barbara