Re: Question about fingers...

[Guest guest]

Are you talking about ulnar drift perhaps? If you look that term up on

you will get some explanations and pictures. Sometimes the fingers

will overlap each other, sometimes the start bending to one side.

If this is the case I suffer from it in my right hand. In 2004 I had a 15

dgree deviation and a few months ago it drifted to a 40 degree deviation.

Right now I have to wear a dynamic brace that pulls on the fingers, training

them to go back into place. My joints are ok, considering the damage in the

rest of my body. The options are to do replacements or to do soft tissue

resurfacing. Both take about the same time to recover. I am hoping the

brace will work. If not I am going to talk to my hand surgeon about the

soft tissue resurfacing after vacation.

Shandi

[ ] Question about fingers...

> Hi everyone! Hope you all are having a good holiday weekend

> I have a question about fingers for you...the pointer fingers on both

> of my hands have started to turn in...looks like they're just kinda

> rotating over, if that makes any sense. I dont have any nodules or

> other deformity in my hands (yet) only this. Has anyone else

> experienced this before? And I dont have any more pain in them than my

> other afflicted joints...weird. I " ve had to have 2 foot surgeries to

> remove nodules on both great toes and to correct some deformity in

> one...seems the nodule had caused my toe to curve inward, and I " m so

> afraid that it's gonna happen in my hands, too

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[Guest guest]

Both my index fingers have been slowly shifting so that the nail faces my middle

fingers.....My pinkys are turning towards ring fingers in the middle joint but

the tips are starting to face away from all the other fingers. None of my

fingers straightens all the way anymore, altho they do not close into a fist

anymore, either, not sure if you mean any of those things? I had a nodule on

my rt index finger for about a year and it went away on it's own and then I got

one on my left index finger, it also went away, but now I have one on left index

finger at the joint at the tip.

All the knuckles at base of all my fingers on my hand stay swelled most of the

time and once in awhile they make my fingers all look like they are aiming

away.....

All these things, sometimes they hurt and sometimes they don't and sometimes

they can look awful and not feel bad, and sometimes they can feel terrible and

not look quite so bad. (and then sometimes they look and feel bad at the same

time)

My rheumys have never offered any solution or treatment for nodules or the

fingers turning.....altho sometimes I feel strange cuz they might say hey wait,

last visit it was your OTHER hand......(yeesh I keep telling them I am not

symmetrical, and things change fast)

- In , " MNPMAIL " <mnpmail@...> wrote:

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> Are you talking about ulnar drift perhaps? If you look that term up on

> you will get some explanations and pictures. Sometimes the fingers

> will overlap each other, sometimes the start bending to one side.

>

> If this is the case I suffer from it in my right hand. In 2004 I had a 15

> dgree deviation and a few months ago it drifted to a 40 degree deviation.

> Right now I have to wear a dynamic brace that pulls on the fingers, training

> them to go back into place. My joints are ok, considering the damage in the

> rest of my body. The options are to do replacements or to do soft tissue

> resurfacing. Both take about the same time to recover. I am hoping the

> brace will work. If not I am going to talk to my hand surgeon about the

> soft tissue resurfacing after vacation.

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> Shandi

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> > Hi everyone! Hope you all are having a good holiday weekend

> > I have a question about fingers for you...the pointer fingers on both

> > of my hands have started to turn in...looks like they're just kinda

> > rotating over, if that makes any sense. I dont have any nodules or

> > other deformity in my hands (yet) only this. Has anyone else

> > experienced this before? And I dont have any more pain in them than my

> > other afflicted joints...weird. I " ve had to have 2 foot surgeries to

> > remove nodules on both great toes and to correct some deformity in

> > one...seems the nodule had caused my toe to curve inward, and I " m so

> > afraid that it's gonna happen in my hands, too

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> > e in Michigan

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[Guest guest]

e,

The middle finger on my left hand does that. It

started moving towards my ring finger. But the nuckle

just below the finger is huge. That is why I am going

to OT to get a ring splint to help straighten it out.

I hope this helps some.

Beth in AR

--- e <swtsxyldy3323@...> wrote:

> Hi everyone! Hope you all are having a good holiday

> weekend

> I have a question about fingers for you...the

> pointer fingers on both

> of my hands have started to turn in...looks like

> they're just kinda

> rotating over, if that makes any sense. I dont have

> any nodules or

> other deformity in my hands (yet) only this. Has

> anyone else

> experienced this before? And I dont have any more

> pain in them than my

> other afflicted joints...weird. I " ve had to have 2

> foot surgeries to

> remove nodules on both great toes and to correct

> some deformity in

> one...seems the nodule had caused my toe to curve

> inward, and I " m so

> afraid that it's gonna happen in my hands, too

>

> e in Michigan

>

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