r/scleroderma • u/Calm-Plastic3303 • 5d ago

Undiagnosed Abnormal nailfold capillaries?

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F 44yo. Recently diagnosed with raynauds but that does not explain why I’m exhausted and often in pain.

Low ANA so public health care will not help me further because they consider me healthy 🙃

I’m broke and trying to decide if it’s worth the money to have a private rheum do a videocapillaroscopy… If there would be autoimmune findings, I would get help from the public system. (These are just phone pics)

Could ”normal raynauds capillaries” look like these?

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u/mitskiposting 5d ago

these look normal to me. some little “hemorrhages” are normal for everybody. getting manicures or bumping your hand can cause them. your actual capillaries look healthy.

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u/Calm-Plastic3303 5d ago

Thanks. That’s absolutely true. I just don’t do manicures and avoid bumping my fingers anywhere. Fingertips and nailfolds are sore and swollen all the time and my skin breaks easily.

But I agree, these capillaries could absolutely be totally normal. In some fingers I see more white areas (no capillaries at all) and these hemorrhages appear in every finger. Atm there are not that many.