Swelling And Itching Fingers In The Morning. What It Could Be?

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2013

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Tue, 23 Apr 2013 Answered on

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Question : After wake up at morning my fingers getting Swelling,and some times itching also there

Answered by Dr. Om Lakhani (35 hours later)

Hi XXXXXXX

Can you please answer the following questions

1. Is swelling present in both fingers
2. Is there a itching in any other part of the body
3. Are you a Diabetic and if yes which medications do you take ?
4. Is there stiffness of any joints ?

Please let me know the answers to these.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar