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My wrist/thumb cracks,hurts,gets warm,stiff and sometimes i get tiny red dots over a vein leading to my thumb. could this be a blood clot? tendonitis?

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Dr. Steven Simon answered

Get evaluated: at 16 this sounds a bit like more than tendonitis, and suggestive of a rdheumatoid pdroblem. you need an evaluation by ortho or rheumatology to detrermine what is occurdring. sometimes it is overuse, but the symptoms are similar to several different diagnoses.

Dr Arnold agreed

Answered 3/24/2015

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A member asked:

My wrist/thumb cracks,hurts,gets warm,stiff and sometimes i get tiny red dots over a vein leading to my thumb. could this be a blood clot? tendonitis?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Steven Simon answered

Dr Arnold agreed

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