Name : Liz Simmonds
E-mail : liz_simmonds@yahoo.co.uk
Adult: 42 years old
Location: UK, Stourbridge, West Midlands
Area of body affected: middle finger on right hand
Personal History:
Long time ago but I remember horribly intense pain which kept me awake until I would drop from exhaustion. The bone in the finger grew abnormally until there was a visible lump - on x-ray as dripping candle wax - within a short space of time; and after what seemed like a lifetime I had an operation to remove a large section of the bone. I had many x-rays for a number of years afterwards of my whole body and there were more dense areas showing on the long bones in my legs and arms, though I never developed the candle wax appearance that occurred on my finger. I still have pain in my finger, and sometimes my other bones, though not as intense as those days.