Talk:Buerger's disease

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I was diagnosed with Buerger's Disease over 20 years ago and I stopped smoking immediately. The symptoms and the pain disappeared with in two weeks and stayed away until I started smoking again five years later.

My toes became gangrenous and I had a sympathectomy in order to save my feet from amputation. I have not smoked since and I get occasional flare ups some how related to contact with Mangoes...

Recently I dated a smoker who did not smoke around me. However, due to skin on skin and mucous membrane contact my symptoms came back with great pain and swelling and the "blood clot" like nodules in and around my joints.

I have discontinued contact with this person (one month) and my symptoms are SLOWLY going away. The challenge and hope is to be able to "get the genie back in the bottle" and not have my disease worsen.

69.143.181.58 (talk) 19:01, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

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I HAVE A QUESTION IS Buerger's disease genetic??? My father have this condition. what are the odds that i inhertited it?

untill recently, no sepecific genetic background for this disease have been known, but I had 3 patients from 200 who their fathers had Buerger's disease too, also a two-brothers and a sister-brother cases. I, by myself, do not believe in the considrable genetic role in this disease but the same stressful background and environment that the patients experience.

Bahare Fazeli M.D. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.38.135.102 (talk) 08:18, 29 February 2008 (UTC)