HI, I had a strange injury last year in my left palm. A lump grew after a piece of glass was removed from the palm of my hand. I had that lump removed thinking it was a foreign object: Glass: in my hand. The results however, said it was not a foreign object. Well more than a year later the lump returned. I again went to the DR and he said it looks like Dupuytren's. Most of the cases I have seen are in older peope. Does any one know of other young people with it? Or did them selves get it at a young age. It worries me b/c it seems like it can only get worse. I am just looking for some feed back on time frames etc about how it affects you. Thanks

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Just because you have a lump to two doesn't mean you'll ever have a finger contraction. It also may well have been that if you had not experienced the hand trauma you might not have any symptoms, or at least not until you were older. You had the disease genetics, then the trauma triggered it. If at your age you developed symptoms with *no* trauma, I think the age statistics just mentioned would be more significant. As it is, in my mind that fact that it was triggered by trauma softens the age statistics in your favor. There is no hard *data* to back up what I'm saying. It is just my feeling that trauma can stir up the onset *prematurely*, so the young age stats may not apply to you. Don't loose sleep over this.

I got a nodule and contractures at 32 but my Dad has a mild case and I had no unusual injury/trauma. Randy is right, getting it young like me is more likely to have problems than your situation so don't sweat too much.