Here’s a weird one! Yesterday my thumb started hurting, the end from the knuckle joint to the tip, and turned bluish purple, it looked like a bruise but I hadn’t hurt it.
This happened during a painful and stressful conversation with my adult son who lives with me, (a coincidence?..).
Today it’s not hurting but still discolored.
I tried to post a picture but it wouldn’t load.
PMR/GCA, diagnosed January 2018, currently tapering from 11 to 10mg
Probably a burst blood vessel. It starts with a sudden sting in the finger, then it becomes discoloured. I used to get a lot of these in my fingers before diagnosis with GCA. Since Pred I’ve not had one. You can get them from damage such as from a heavy carrier bag across the fingers.
Maybe Achenbach's syndrome?
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Or possibly :
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Somewhere I have seen this also linked to PMR/GCA
That doesn't present like that - doesn't bruise and the colour changes are short-lived. The areas affected go white and numb when the blood flow is restricted and red when the blood flow returns. I have/had it - images of my hands were adorning a vascular lab wall as typical examples for the testing!!!
Thanks - well you would know much better than me PMRpro having 'had it' - it just came to mind as a possibility as those symptoms - even the 'emotional' trigger(s) had some similarities I thought with Raynaud's Phenomenon which is also mentioned as having some link to Extra Cranial GCA in the often cited Dasgupta et al article about 'phenotypes' of GCA.
Maybe a burst blood vessel or you may have unconsciously been clenching your hand and fist during the conversation causing a bruise and Pain.
Keep an eye on it
I will. Stress can cause many things.
Interestingly A couple of weeks ago I struggled to open a jar of marmalade, but two days later I had pain in my right hand which got worse over the next two days. I treated it with Ibuprofen gel and 2X500mg of co-codamol every 4 hrs plus I increased my prednisolol from 5mg to 15mg in the interim. GP was informed and asked me in and also insisted I contact my consultant too. Later my right knee played up with extreme pain and I was unable to walk for 18 hours. This I did and she wanted to see me also. Tests folowed with X-rays and diagnosis was Synovitis caused by trauma, i.e. forcing the lid off the jar. My treatment was agreed with a tapered reduction of the Preds back to 5mg over the next few weeks. New follow up appointment in six weeks. Now I have Rheumatoid vasculitis which is an extension of Rheumatoid arthritis with mono-neuritis multiplex. The disease is systemic and that would explain the migration of the pain from my hand to my knee or elsewhere. It is possible that in your case a similar situation occured when stress, mental or physical, can cause a flare to occur. At least talk with your GP about it, the more they know the better for you and them.
I get little burst blood vessels 3-4 times a month. I can tell when it bursts because that finger suddenly hurts.
Thanks, sounds like what happened to me. Never had this in almost 2 years since being diagnosed. Something new is always popping up!
Isn’t that the truth?
Down to 10 mg and experiencing this. Anyone else?
Sweats......Won't boast next time
What does GCA feel like at first?
flu shot reaction with PMR
Found some large cells in biopsy
