:-)Take pictures if you can.

Hi, of my hands?? (pictures)

Hands yes, 9-10 cases its in the hands. But also feet.

O.K. will hook up camera, but will have to send to wedmaster unless you have an open email address.I do not know how to do threw threads. J

oh, just email me at [email protected]
I have 2 gigs of space free

I got your email. I will react this weekend when I have time.

Hi Sergej, been doing a little on my own, I also have the growth on the back of fingers will send pics again of back of hand local docs. do not have a clue , just like trying to find a good car mechanic.(joke) john

Hi John,

Ok I took a peek at the pics. Its Dupuytren for sure. Now there are some things you should now about the contracture.

The contracture is related to your personal health. This means that a bad lifestyle will speeden up the process. Normally the contracture reveals itself when a person reaches his 50-ies but it is also known rarely though to reveal itself earlier. You should avoid the following things in order to prevent a worsening of the symptoms etc.

1. No smoking;
2. No alcohol;
3. No coffee or black tea;
4. Try to avoid caffeine as much as possible;

Depending on if the contracture is also on your feet you should avoid to put long stress on either hands or feet.

Now about the surgery. My father e.g. has a lot of this. I until now do not have it but it doesn”™t mean I cant get it because it autosomal dominant and I have a 50-50 chance that it can appear with me. Now I don”™t smoke so it didnt appear year. My little brother who is 25 smokes and drinks and it just started with him. My father also had it very early due to his life style.
Now you can perform surgery on hands and feet to remove the bumps and Dupuytren bumps but I must warn about this. My father underwent like 15 operations, in some cases the Dupuytren was back within 3 weeks!
Surgery will only worsen it, the best thing you can/could do is to prevent any of the above by having a healthy style of living.

Doctors will have no clue what to do with it because this contracture is very rare. The local doctors here had a party when they could operate because they only read about it. The contracture is very rare, but when you have it you know your ancestry

The disease originated from Celts, but you read the article so parts are in there. Other information such as works from Universities you can find in the articles sources so you could give that to your doctor.

Remedies. There are none, once you have it you are screwed, there is no other way to say it. If your doctor wants to operate take into consideration that it can get back as soon as 3 weeks after the operation so only operate if you really cant take it anymore. E.g. if the bump is on top of a nerve or something. But if you get operated let it be done by a Plastic surgeon and not some farmer

Now the good thing that can come from this contracture, yes there is something good from it. When you research your family tree you not only look for the names but also physical features. In your case its easy, the Contracture is very rare so if you find someone e.g. in the area where you family lives, the chances of being related is very big. But caution is always needed, the Western European doctors did research on this. There is however no registration in Eastern Europe & Serbia so we don”™t know for sure what the percentage is of people that have this.

Sergej hi, think I will have Braun check you out. According to your theory we must be related (lol) but you never know getting book on Stoyands three generations in Canada this week I do not smoke but do make and drink own wine.

My family makes our own wine as well. Just take it easy , save it all ujp for the Superbowl or something

I hope to get some documents this week or next week with information on surnames so I will get back to you then.

HI Stanley Cup hockey not football.

Sergje;

Would it be a good idea to post on the public forum list? I notice it gets a lot more hits.

It does get more hits, but I will follow up on the article and the forums will be upraded to stable next week so most likely we will add forums. if so I will move this topic there.

I will be in Belgrade this week so I wont be able to get online that much.

I think I found family, maybe?? we found a Vlada Stojanovic in Farkazdin phone book My uncle's name is Vlada. all uncles and aunts names end with an A. Rada, Kasta, Gega, Draga, Persa, Melitsa, Zivka, Laza, Matsa, Vlada ,poor granmother was forever pregnant makeing lots of Canadian Serbs. Now all I have to do is find out how to contact him and see if they are family.

I forgot to mention we are left handed , father was ,I am, sister is.