Phats - Pics of my hands, am I crazy?

So do I have that ulnar drift thing? Or are my fingers just naturally weird. LOL Mine have looked like this for a long time. Not the best pics, sorry. And you probably can't tell, but I'm really puffy (for me) in my big knuckles at the base of my fingers. They don't normally dent in like that. Stupid little "fat dimples" I call them....lol

my middle fingers always have curved to the pinkies, if that's not normal, what is it that you are talking about, never heard of it.^ I don't see any ulnar drift happening. Ulnar drift usually happens after you have had unmanageable RA for many years, and usually begins in the knuckles with sublaxation, not the twisting of your fingers. Your fingers look just like my mums and she doesn't have RA. It doesn't mean it is not slowly happening, but it is one thing that you don't have to deal with... yet. Congratulations, you just have naturally weird fingers. _popupControl(); Katiekins,

I'm not sure about the ulnar drift. Looks like your left middle finger might have a little. The question is...have they changed, or always looked like that?

Either way, you have joined the group of people with "not normal" hands OmG My left hand looks the same( minus your nice nails)LOL My middle finger twists too worse when my hands are swollenWhat unlar drift? Is it that your fingers curve sideways or that they bend at the knuckle downwards.

Katie you have very pretty hands!

This might help...

http://www.handuniversity.com/topics.asp?Topic_ID=13Yay. LoL I dunno how long they've done that. I can bend all of my finger tip joints backwards though, maybe that's part of it? LOL

Okay, so I just have weird fingers! I think your hands look great ! Nice nails !That is good to know that they make splints for that.

Although the doctor tried to get me to wear ring splints to straighten out my fingers when I was little and I had NONE of that. I would be willing to try it again.

Any one else wear splints to straighten things out?Katie,

It almost looks like you broke your index finger at one time. Some of my fingers are slightly crooked and my doc said that if they are still functional, then I should just leave them. As far as the ulnar drift, I really can't tell that it's noticable. If so, it is ever so slight and hopefully the meds will help control it. I think you have nice hands!

Notice the ulnar drift in my hand. My fingers are fairly straight but the "sway" starts at the knuckles.

By the way, the surgery to correct my right hand is doing very well. I'm planning to have the left hand (pic above) corrected on March 18th.

Here is a side-by-side pic of the "new" hand and the "old" one.

The difference is AMAZING!! I'm so glad the surgery worked for you!! I hope it works as well on your other hand too!

I've never broken a finger before, and I'm not to worried about my hands. They do flare and hurt, but when I'm NOT flared they're just dandy. So at this point I'm cool. :) They can be twisty all the want. lol
My hands look like yours too, also minus the nice nails. Mine are "poofy" all the time.Katie

you do not want your fingers to be twisty..hurting or not. Its a whole lot easier to prevent the twisting than to fix it.

So to anyone who believes their fingers are deforming get your rears to a hand therapist

The difference is amazing Binge. That's awesome! You don't appear to have too much swelling. Do you? Over the years did you experience a lot of swelling?

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