Arthritic Hands please Help

[LadyJ2023]

Can anybody give any suggestions please. So my mum has suffered with bad arthritic fingers for almost 10 years tbh there very twisted now especially on her left hand. She is just 60 and after 30 years of doing a job she loves has got to the point she gave her notice in a couple of days ago as she struggles to lift and hold things now. After countless dr visits and specialists all she gets offered now are painkillers which do absaloutely nothing. The injections into the tendons were tried and failed. I was looking as she struggled a bit holding a cup then her grandaughters yesterday her poor hands all swollen and strange shaped seem to be daily changing for the worse. Specalists say she can't have an operation because its all her fingers on both hands apart from one thumb. Just recently we helped her get an automatic car as she was struggling to change gears in her old one. Has anybody got any suggestions please of what I can get or suggest to help her, I hate seeing mum in pain and she doesn't moan about it either. Thankyou

Sorry your DM is struggling, my DM had arthritis and deformed hands and it’s a horrible disease. I appear to have inherited it and at the early stages.

I am not a medical person but I am afraid that they are right and there’s not much that can be done to improve your DM’s hands, but there are other ways of making her life easier.

First of all, her job. Would she really rather not leave? Has she told them why she’s handed in her notice? She has a right under the disability discrimination bill for ‘reasonable adjustments’, see this: https://www.arthritisaction.org.uk/living-with-arthritis/resource-centre/work-and-arthritis/

The other thing is finding gadgets that will make her life easier. This charity is also good and has a helpline. https://www.versusarthritis.org/

A friend mine has had the top joints on a couple of her fingers pinned so they don't bend and the joints filed down. It seems to have been successful. We're in the northwest .

Find a rheumatologist to get a real diagnosis and treatment plan.