skin drying on palm creases- one hand: steroids? tendons?

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Hi there

I've been having synovitis off and on in my knuckles and have had 2

corticosteroid injections in the palmside of my right index finger, one in

May and one in September.

The whole palm side of my right hand knuckles, right across the palm gets

painful and looks swollen.

Then, the area along the creases throughout the palm, only on the right

hand, gets dry and the skin breaks. After doing a lot of washing, or a bath,

the palm looks very wrinkly and even a bit bubbly, while the left hand is

fine.

The rheumatologist says he doesn't think it is connected to the RA and a

dermatologist could only come up with " the creases are deep and thus

sensitive to moisture " though he denied any connection to the swollen

tendons, synovitis or RA.

Has this happened to anyone? Does anyone know what I'm talking about? The

skin across the main left to right crease (life line?) looks 'pinched' for a

better word.

It's driving me nuts, but short of going around all the dermatologists, I

don't know what to do.

If it helps, I have RA and am on AzulfidineEN, 500mg X3; Prednisone 3.5mg,

Loxonin 60mg X 3 and a mild anti-depressant, muscle relaxant 5mg X1.

Thanks

AnneMarie

Irish in Japan