Question about weird bruised look on knuckle - 07/18/09 03:10 PM
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I have a question. I have AS and am on Humira, after being on Enbrel for several years. A little while ago, on a Friday, I looked down and noticed my knuckle on my right pinky finger looked horribly bruised, all black-and-blue. Yet it did not hurt and there was no noticeable swelling. I found it odd, because I had not banged it, and in the past I've banged my hands badly on things and never gotten a bruised knuckle.
As luck would have it, I had a rheumatologist appointment that very Monday. But I woke up Monday and it had disappeared as mysteriously as it had appeared.
I mentioned it to my doctor anyway. He said it was probably something-I-didn't-understand and that it could be brought on by stress and a few other things, and did not seem really concerned.
Now, usually my doctor is not rushed, but this morning he seemed in a bit of a hurry and when I checked in I overheard the woman at the desk telling another patient "Dr. XYZ called off today, so you'll be seeing (insert my doctor's name here) instead." I get the feeling he was double-booked through no fault of his own, so I did not press the issue for clarification. Normally I would have asked him more questions, which he would gladly answer, but I just sort of let it go (my mistake).
Now I'm curious as to what it was, and I have looked online but "knuckle bruising arthritis" and "knuckle bruising ankylosing spondylitis" yield a mind-numbing number of hits, most of which don't seem to apply at all. Especially since it wasn't so much bruised at all, as discolored.
Does anyone here know what it might have been?
I have a question. I have AS and am on Humira, after being on Enbrel for several years. A little while ago, on a Friday, I looked down and noticed my knuckle on my right pinky finger looked horribly bruised, all black-and-blue. Yet it did not hurt and there was no noticeable swelling. I found it odd, because I had not banged it, and in the past I've banged my hands badly on things and never gotten a bruised knuckle.
As luck would have it, I had a rheumatologist appointment that very Monday. But I woke up Monday and it had disappeared as mysteriously as it had appeared.
I mentioned it to my doctor anyway. He said it was probably something-I-didn't-understand and that it could be brought on by stress and a few other things, and did not seem really concerned.
Now, usually my doctor is not rushed, but this morning he seemed in a bit of a hurry and when I checked in I overheard the woman at the desk telling another patient "Dr. XYZ called off today, so you'll be seeing (insert my doctor's name here) instead." I get the feeling he was double-booked through no fault of his own, so I did not press the issue for clarification. Normally I would have asked him more questions, which he would gladly answer, but I just sort of let it go (my mistake).
Now I'm curious as to what it was, and I have looked online but "knuckle bruising arthritis" and "knuckle bruising ankylosing spondylitis" yield a mind-numbing number of hits, most of which don't seem to apply at all. Especially since it wasn't so much bruised at all, as discolored.
Does anyone here know what it might have been?