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Originally Posted by PedOncoDoc
To follow up on TJ's comments, Reynaud's phenomenon typically is accompanied by color change in the fingers with changes in the temperature (classicly from warm to cold) where the fingers will become pale, then cyanotic (turning blue) and can be painful. I don't recall Reynaud's presenting as severely dry/cracked hands, but I could be mistaken.
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I agree with you Doc, severely dry, cracked skin on the fingers is not a classic textbook presenting sign of Raynaud's. My thinking was that impaired micro-circulation over time could lead to this symptom. I seem to recall a discussion a few years back with a Doc that had Raynaud' and she said that in the winter the skin on her fingers was always chapped and that would become dry and cracked to the point of bleeding. Given Brush Okie's history and CC, I thought that Raynaud's should be ruled out.
Side note: The Doc I mentioned was on the Advisory Board of a local VC company that I had presented to. She was keenly interested if we were working on a drug for Raynaud's. We weren't and that was the end of that story.
