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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nofearfactor" data-source="post: 2663305" data-attributes="member: 1535"><p>Its arthritis for sure. My 75 yr old mother has the knotted looking fingers at the end knuckles, my gramma did too but at 89 hers got way worse than my moms is, mine are starting to look it a lil on the end knuckles too. My mother was a banker so she was on the keys for about 50 years. Mine has been coming on about 20 years, uncomfortable for the past 10, getting worse the last 5. I used to come home after working a 12 hour day at the shop and either put my hands on ice like I did as a young boxer or what really felt good was to do a load of dishes- omg, that hot water feels good after a good soaking. Good thing is my other career as a musician the hand that the fingers go numb on is on my picking hand and my other fretting hand is still good to go so I can still play the really aggressive type of music I play- metaL- with no problems. I also can still draw and paint and do commercial types of art its just holding the tattoo machine for any length of time is out of the question, and since it has been my main occupation most of my adult life I just considered it a disability.</p></blockquote><p></p>