Re: SD calcium deposits under the skin

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I am experiencing my second calcium deposit under the skin on my fingers -

the first one I believe came and went before I even realized what it was. This

one is quite large and on my ring finger - has never quite come to the

surface. I showed it to my doctor many months ago and he thought it would be

re-absorbed by the body as it was not close enough to the surface to open on its

own.

Has anyone else had an experience like this for several months. Did it go

away on its own or surface eventually. Has anyone had them opened by a

physician or done anything on their own. Thanks for any input. Gail

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Hi Gail. Before I was diagnosed with scleroderma, I experienced these hard white

stone like pebbles under my skin on my chest which had become very tight and

shiny.  I didn't know what it was and I would lay in bed trying to scratch them

out from under the skin.  Then, I tried putting lotion to soften the skin to

make it easier to pull out. Some of these stones were painful to pull.  After a

while, the skin got soft, partly because of the lotion and because I was finally

diagnosed with S/D and went on Minocin.  About 6 months later, the pebbles

started rolling out of my skin when I would just rub it with my hands.  After

reading the Scammell and Brown books, I realized that what I had been

experiencing was called Calcinosis.  R U on Minocin or some other form of

antibiotic.?  I don't know what disease you have!  By the time, I started

treatment, the skin had started to soften and the calcinosis stopped forming. 

Around that same time, the

Raynaud's began disappearing also.  I never treated any of the symptoms apart

from just taking the Minocin 100mg twice a day, every day, for 2 years.  At the

18month level, I was totally symptom free and in remission.  Good luck with

having them exized.  Be careful not give yourself an infection or damage.  Any

opening in the skin can lead to that.  I was dumb to pull them out like that,

but I didn't know better.  I was so sick, I was bedridden.  I had nothing better

to do with myself than to pick on those tight hard spots.  I'm fortunate not to

have made further damage.  That was my experience.  Maybe yours is a different

one.  Mine never did get diagnosed or treated.  They just went away!-----Dolores

& Mike  

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Subject: Re: rheumatic SD calcium deposits under the skin

rheumatic

Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 7:23 PM

I am experiencing my second calcium deposit under the skin on my fingers -

the first one I believe came and went before I even realized what it was. This

one is quite large and on my ring finger - has never quite come to the

surface. I showed it to my doctor many months ago and he thought it would be

re-absorbed by the body as it was not close enough to the surface to open on its

own.

Has anyone else had an experience like this for several months. Did it go

away on its own or surface eventually. Has anyone had them opened by a

physician or done anything on their own. Thanks for any input. Gail

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