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General Category => The Knowledge => Health & Fitness => Topic started by: Jurek on 23 March, 2014, 04:33:41 pm

Title: 'Pruned ' fingertips....
Post by: Jurek on 23 March, 2014, 04:33:41 pm
.... what's that all about then?
For the last, I don't know - three or four weeks, the fingertips of both hands look like I've been sitting in the bath too long, they're also subjected to mild pins & needles.
It's not painful, just mildly irritating and, errr..... weird.
Any idea what that might be about?

TIA
Title: Re: 'Pruned ' fingertips....
Post by: delthebike on 23 March, 2014, 04:36:22 pm
Have your toes gone the same way?
Title: Re: 'Pruned ' fingertips....
Post by: Pancho on 23 March, 2014, 04:42:58 pm
I thought this was going to be a post describing a gory gardening mishap.
Title: Re: 'Pruned ' fingertips....
Post by: Jurek on 23 March, 2014, 04:46:47 pm
Have your toes gone the same way?

No, just my fingers.

I thought this was going to be a post describing a gory gardening mishap.

Sorry to disappoint. It's part of my cunning ploy to use an 'interesting' subject header in the hope of getting more hits and eliciting more replies  :)
Title: Re: 'Pruned ' fingertips....
Post by: Peter on 23 March, 2014, 06:57:08 pm
Jurek, just search for "wrinkled fingertips" and you'll find some possibilities.  Good luck!
Title: Re: 'Pruned ' fingertips....
Post by: henshaw11 on 28 March, 2014, 12:04:50 pm
Anything like this ?

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/raynauds-phenomenon/Pages/Introduction.aspx

A mate/colleague has it - don't think it causes him too much of a problem on the whole, but it's a bit more trouble on the motorbike.
Title: Re: 'Pruned ' fingertips....
Post by: Jurek on 31 March, 2014, 10:30:31 am
Anything like this ?

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/raynauds-phenomenon/Pages/Introduction.aspx

A mate/colleague has it - don't think it causes him too much of a problem on the whole, but it's a bit more trouble on the motorbike.

No.
I have two friends who suffer with Reynauds.
I definitely do not have that.
My fingertips aren't wrinkly all the time - just at certain times of day, and in varying degrees.
I'm not sure what that correlates with, and I don't seem to be able to induce the wrinkly-ness by anything that I do  ???
Title: Re: 'Pruned ' fingertips....
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 31 March, 2014, 10:43:41 am
IME, reynauds doesn't produce wrinkly fingers. My experience is limited.
Title: Re: 'Pruned ' fingertips....
Post by: Jurek on 31 March, 2014, 10:47:36 am
The photo on Henshaw's link is exactly what my friend's fingies look like when subjected to cold that wouldn't affect most of us.