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| gracebb
- Sun Dec 25, 2005 12:14 am |
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I was diagnosed with overlap connective tissue disease a few months ago with RA, lupus and scleroderma apparently the most obvious. Besides feeling way to old for my age (52) these days with bent arthritic fingers, someone recently asked if I had scleroderma because of the lines around my lips. I just thought these were from age--I used to smoke, and my mother has these kind of lines. The onlyscleroderma symptom that my doctors have noted is the skin on my forearms, which is tan looking and, apparently, thicker than normal (something I would never have noticed myself). Am I in denial when I think that maybe it's not scleroderma and that it won't get worse? Is there something I can do about this? Can I have injections like collagen to fill in the lines? I think I would feel better if I knew I could at least do something so that I don't look as old as I'm feeling.
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| Dr. P. M. Aries
- Sat Jan 07, 2006 5:09 pm |
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 Unless you have major complications with your skin, like necrosis of the finger tips or severe raynaud syndrome, no immunosuppressions will be useful for scleroderma. If the thikening of the skin is the major problem, some patients benefit from prostaglandins (e.g. iloprost) or endothelin receptor blocker (bosentan). Both therapies may have severe side effects, because of have to ask your the doctor if it might be usefull in your case. Beside the skin, there are many therapies for the other symptoms. But taking collagen is not usefull in your case, because actually your skin has more then enough of that.
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| gracebb
- Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:23 am |
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I was thinking in terms of using collogen injections around my mouth, for cosmetic reasons. I know women have fillers injected to fill in lines, and I heard that people with scleroderma can have bad reactions to this. Is this true?
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| Dr. P. M. Aries
- Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:06 am |
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Indeed, at least after breast implantations it is kown that connective tissue disease can be triggerd.
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