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<blockquote data-quote="Herbie1972" data-source="post: 2419083" data-attributes="member: 29967"><p>Hi all, </p><p></p><p>Am wondering whether anyone else with Type 1 has been plagued with trigger finger / thumb and other joint or tendon problems. </p><p></p><p>I’ve had what I thought was trigger finger in all my fingers and thumbs, and I had a year’s worth of steroid injections in the digits prior to lockdown, which helped temporarily. The MSK department at my local hospital said it was diabetes related, but discharged me saying I’d reached the maximum number of injections allowed.</p><p></p><p>Over a year on and it’s still awful, my fingers locking so much that I can’t grip things properly, so writing and holding a fork is difficult and I drop things a lot. I’m a journalist and have had to relearn how to type, too. Then there’s the constant burning pain. </p><p></p><p>The latest consultant I recently saw ruled our trigger thumb, which confused me, and suggested it might be rheumatoid arthritis, another auto-immune disease which crippled my mum, but tests for that came back negative.</p><p></p><p>It’s really doing my head in now and no one seems to know what’s wrong. At the moment the index finger on my left hand is completely locked shut and is swollen (see pic), but the other fingers are ok.</p><p></p><p>Has anyone else had anything similar? Thanks for any advice</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Herbie1972, post: 2419083, member: 29967"] Hi all, Am wondering whether anyone else with Type 1 has been plagued with trigger finger / thumb and other joint or tendon problems. I’ve had what I thought was trigger finger in all my fingers and thumbs, and I had a year’s worth of steroid injections in the digits prior to lockdown, which helped temporarily. The MSK department at my local hospital said it was diabetes related, but discharged me saying I’d reached the maximum number of injections allowed. Over a year on and it’s still awful, my fingers locking so much that I can’t grip things properly, so writing and holding a fork is difficult and I drop things a lot. I’m a journalist and have had to relearn how to type, too. Then there’s the constant burning pain. The latest consultant I recently saw ruled our trigger thumb, which confused me, and suggested it might be rheumatoid arthritis, another auto-immune disease which crippled my mum, but tests for that came back negative. It’s really doing my head in now and no one seems to know what’s wrong. At the moment the index finger on my left hand is completely locked shut and is swollen (see pic), but the other fingers are ok. Has anyone else had anything similar? Thanks for any advice [/QUOTE]
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