Swollen fingers/ toes

There could be several reasons for this.

Swinging them alot in hot weather can cause them to inflate

It could be clubbing of the fingers(which is extremely serious, although since you have foot symptoms this is unlikely)

My diagnosis would be fluid retention dropsy or rsd / cprs

Maybe you should visit a proper doctor not just a wannabe premed?

do any of u guys know what could be causing swollen fingers / toes?
it happens to me on and off- right now the fingers on my right hand are swollen and its painful to type with them

clubbing of the fingers is not serious, and where you plucked 'fluid retention dropsy' from, i don't know.

forgot a comma, fluid rentention, dropsy. Better?

And clubbing is VERY serious

Lung disease:
Lung cancer, mainly large-cell (35% of all cases), not seen frequently in small cell lung cancer[3]
Interstitial lung disease
Tuberculosis
Bronchiectasis
Suppurative lung disease: lung abscess, empyema
Cystic fibrosis
Pulmonary hypertension
Mesothelioma
It is worth noting that clubbing is not associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Indeed, the presence of clubbing in a patient with COPD should prompt a search for an underlying (lung) cancer.
Heart disease:
Any disease featuring chronic hypoxia
Congenital cyanotic heart disease (most common cardiac cause)
Subacute bacterial endocarditis
Atrial myxoma (benign tumor)

See?

Did they not teach you in your google medical degree that the most common cause of clubbing is....nothing. Its congenital/idiopathic. Second most common...manual labour.

>80% of lung cancer patients are smokers. But that doesn't make smoking a sign of lung cancer does it.

Okay so if he has clubbing on his fingers, since it PROBABLY won't kill him, he should leave it.

Sensible.

Clubbing will never hurt you. Its a sign, not a symptom.
It doesn't hurt, and 99% of the people who have it are never aware they do until some sprightly medical student/doctor says 'o, you have clubbed fingers'.
And there is nothing that can be done about clubbed fingers anyway. They just are, and no-one really knows why.

...... Are you serious?

I was implying he should check the cause of his clubbed fingers(were he to have them, which i'm rather sure he doesn't) because the cause may be fatal and curable. geez.

...... Are you serious?

I was implying he should check the cause of his clubbed fingers(were he to have them, which i'm rather sure he doesn't) because the cause may be fatal and curable. geez.

Have you gone to medical school yet?

Clubbing is WAY overrated as a sign. It's totally non-specific and fairly non-sensitive. It's just one of those things you check for at the start of an examination, but it's never going to lead you to a diagnosis (in my opinion, anyway). Oh, and you can actually get toe clubbing too, but it's a later sign.

Yes, the OP should probably go to the GP when her fingers/toes are bad, but as it's unlikely it's actually clubbing, you're really going a bit OTT here.

Sorry for double post, edit button isnt my friend...

"Yes I'm serious, its all just common sense.
Plus I have a distinct knowledge advantage over you evidently."

If you saw clubbing on someones fingers, you would not warn them to see a GP. i Pray you never become a doctor. And don't patronize me.

Sorry for double post, edit button isnt my friend...

"Yes I'm serious, its all just common sense.
Plus I have a distinct knowledge advantage over you evidently."

If you saw clubbing on someones fingers, you would not warn them to see a GP. i Pray you never become a doctor. And don't patronize me.