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Brilliant_Rock
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I will try to keep this as brief as possible and get to the point of this thread.
For the last 6 months or so, I''ve been waking up every morning with swollen and numb hands. At first I thought it was because I was sleeping in a weird position, but the problem never went away. Then a few months ago, I was grocery shopping and one of my fingers went completely white and numb. I mean, it looked the the finger on a corpse. I figured I was just really cold, like always. Of course it freaked me out, but I sort of ignored it. Well the problem has persisted and only gotten worse. Now everyday, whenever I''m cold (which is almost all the time) my fingers turn from white to blueish purple and go numb off and on and the swelling hardly goes down.
I finally decided to see a doctor about a month ago. He ran a ton of blood tests and then sent me to a Rheumatologist on Friday. I was diagnosed with a rare auto-immune disease call Scleroderma. The chances of getting this are one in a million. (Sheesh, maybe I''ll play the lotto this week) It causes a harding of the skin (mostly in the hands and feet) but can also affect the organs. I will be "high risk" when I try to get pregnant (the baby won''t be at risk, but I will be...something to do with the kidneys). There''s no cure yet. Anyway, I don''t know much about it since I just found out two days ago. I also have a secondary disease called Raynaud''s Disease which causes the body to over-react to cold, so it tries to conserve the core heat by narrowing blood vessels to the extremities (which is why I wasn''t getting any circulation to my fingers). Then to top it off, I also have arthritis. Fun. The crazy thing is I''m only 25 years old and have always been extremely healthy! It was quite a shock but my family and SO have been extremely supportive, so that''s a huge help.
Ok, so now to the point.
SO and I are going shopping for an ering in 2 weeks. Obviously, with my hands being swollen all the time I''m concerned about the sizing. I asked the doctor if there''s a "magic pill" to make my fingers go down to their normal size. She said there''s no quick fix but I can get an adjustable ring (???) My question is...what the heck is an adjustable ring? Would it look weird? Can you make any setting adjustable? SO says he will just have to get me an ering in every size! He always knows the right thing to say to make me feel better
If anyone can offer any advice on this, I''d really appreciate it!
Thanks for listening...
For the last 6 months or so, I''ve been waking up every morning with swollen and numb hands. At first I thought it was because I was sleeping in a weird position, but the problem never went away. Then a few months ago, I was grocery shopping and one of my fingers went completely white and numb. I mean, it looked the the finger on a corpse. I figured I was just really cold, like always. Of course it freaked me out, but I sort of ignored it. Well the problem has persisted and only gotten worse. Now everyday, whenever I''m cold (which is almost all the time) my fingers turn from white to blueish purple and go numb off and on and the swelling hardly goes down.
I finally decided to see a doctor about a month ago. He ran a ton of blood tests and then sent me to a Rheumatologist on Friday. I was diagnosed with a rare auto-immune disease call Scleroderma. The chances of getting this are one in a million. (Sheesh, maybe I''ll play the lotto this week) It causes a harding of the skin (mostly in the hands and feet) but can also affect the organs. I will be "high risk" when I try to get pregnant (the baby won''t be at risk, but I will be...something to do with the kidneys). There''s no cure yet. Anyway, I don''t know much about it since I just found out two days ago. I also have a secondary disease called Raynaud''s Disease which causes the body to over-react to cold, so it tries to conserve the core heat by narrowing blood vessels to the extremities (which is why I wasn''t getting any circulation to my fingers). Then to top it off, I also have arthritis. Fun. The crazy thing is I''m only 25 years old and have always been extremely healthy! It was quite a shock but my family and SO have been extremely supportive, so that''s a huge help.
Ok, so now to the point.
SO and I are going shopping for an ering in 2 weeks. Obviously, with my hands being swollen all the time I''m concerned about the sizing. I asked the doctor if there''s a "magic pill" to make my fingers go down to their normal size. She said there''s no quick fix but I can get an adjustable ring (???) My question is...what the heck is an adjustable ring? Would it look weird? Can you make any setting adjustable? SO says he will just have to get me an ering in every size! He always knows the right thing to say to make me feel better
If anyone can offer any advice on this, I''d really appreciate it!
Thanks for listening...