and here is my nice normal left hand fingers which have only recently also started going white but still not as bad as the right. Also my right when not swollen or puffy, but you can see the index and middle fingers are 'bigger' and have been getting gradually bigger for about 5 years.
Little fingers on both sides have tender and slightly enlarged joints which sometimes go a bit red.
I bet a lot on here would be thrilled to have hands that look as normal as yours do in the photo.
Talk to your nurse & try to get things sorted out ...you need to know if you really should be starting Mtx.
Nice hands I am to embarrassed to show mine stay safe 😷
Me too, I’m always shocked to see my hands when I look in the mirror. Wouldn’t inflict that on anyone intentionally 😊
I once had my nails done and the lady asked if she could take a picture for facebook. I said are you sure you've looked at my hands properly. She looked at my hands and then looked sheepish. The picture never made it onto facebook. Lol.
So sorry that happened, we're not all perfect, sometimes I forget how bad my hands look, until someone stares at them, but I can still use them, that's what I tell myself 😔😁
Same here 😉😢
Me too, my middle fingers are awful and on my right hand all fingers have drifted. Don’t stop me doing anything, but my nice long straight fingers are long gone!
Hi Neonkittie - is it mainly just the right hand? Has it been years or did it happen quite quickly? x
They deteriorated badly in seven weeks when I couldn’t get in for an infusion of Rtx in 2015. They had been slowly drifting in the right hand for about ten years, wear and tear, but I am a printmaker and over-used them so wasn’t surprised. The middle ones are totally wonky. A boutonnière and swan neck. Those were the result of the delayed infusion and came on very quickly. You don’t appear on the photo to have visible OA damage and I do hope you stay that way. I’m sorry if they are painful at the moment. If it helps, my fingers were fine until about 2005 which was ten years after RA diagnosis, then the slow drift with some fingers on the right hand. The Rtx has prevented any further/fresh damage since 2015. x
Neonkittie - I am trying to uplaod my 'knuckles collage' !! but don't think I can do that in a reply message. I'll post it seperately, anyway it's not huge but you can see the redness and the yellow bump under the skin. At times it's unbelievably painful and I get an identical pain in my foot same joint , second tow. It was what made me accept the steroid injection. Weirdly I can feel the stinging in my neck and near my ears.
It has come up quickly, a matter of weeks and although there is no visible bump or redness on the other hand, I can feel tenderness in that joint too.
Looking at the pictures I can see that the other joints are going the same way. I though it was a classic sign of OA?
OA by itself doesn’t tend to make joints red and swollen I didn’t think and not in my case. RA is more likely to make tender, hot, red, swollen joints and that’s how like started in both lots of fingers and toes. It subsided when RA was under control. Then over the years it’s been up and down.
I saw it last night but my phone was playing up so couldn’t respond to you. Will do so under the photos. x
Fingers changing, should I be worried?
Trigger finger
Noticed shaky hands and fingers
Little bumps on my fingers
