I am an alcoholic. A total drunk. I have been for years. I develpoed DD about 8 years ago. Cause and effect? I don't know. Perhaps.

I used to drink a lot. I've cut back to a glass of wine, or two 3-4 nights per week. Must admit that when I get ahold of a particularly good bottle, I drink more than I should.

I'm 37 and discovered a nodule in my palm last night. I'm curious if the alcohol connection is reversible. In other-words, if I stop now, will the progress of disease slow?

Has anyone tried this?

Yes there is a link between BOOZE and DUPS. I experimented with whiskey. Two hefty slugs a day for a week and I felt the itching, I carried on for another week, the lumps appeared. I stopped the drinking and two days later the itching stopped and the lumps subsided.
Two months later I had another go, same thing happened. .Coincidence, I think not. I am now TEETOTAL. I know down the line somewhere I will, most probibly, have to have both hands done again by Dr Badois. So be it. But right now I'm as happy as a pig in shit to have my hands back and be able to swill my face with water and no poke my eye.


Alf

Come on Randy, admit it. You were the guy in the movie Sideways who was planning to get married after a wild week of Pinot tasting on the Central Coast, right?

Hello,

I have decided to abstain from alcohol altogether since a year to see what the effect would be. What I can say is that it has stabilised and not progressed since then.

20 years ago, I contracted hepatitus A while travelling through Central America and did a radical diet for about a year...abstaining from many foods, coffee, alcohol and all that would and could be toxic to the liver. At that time, I had DC but only a knucle pad on the small finger of the left hand. After several months of this radical diet, the nodule was no longer there...Since then it has grown back and i also have lederhose's disease.

I am convinced that there is a link with alcohol consumption and for that reason, I decided to do a test and abstain from alcohol. It has now been a year and all that I notice is that the disease seems to have stabilised...I was hoping for a remission but I did not do the radical died that I did 20 years ago..


Bernard