Is Scleroderma transmitted from person to person? Is Scleroderma contagious? What are the routes of contagion? People with experience in Scleroderma help solve this question.
Scleroderma is not contageous. No you cannot catch it from someone else. It is an internal problem. Although we don't know what causes it...there are ideas of the causes i.e. environment, heredity, and maybe stress.
In 1996 I was diagnosed with Systemic Diffuse Scleroderma. I had never heard of it, couldn't spell or pronounce it. Fast forward 20 years and I can say that Scleroderma has been a blessing in my life, not a curse.
In 1996 I almost immediately was ho...
I was officaily diagnosed in 2013 at age 52.
My dermatoligist ran blood tests becaause I was complaining of the apperance of several red spots (telangiectasias) and Raynauds symptoms.
She came back with the news that I have CREST syndrome, a conne...
It took me several years before I got diagnosed. I even had one doctor tell me that it was all in my head. For years I always had an excuse for why feeling the way that I was, stress or taking on to much. Then finally I saw the correct doctor and g...