For scleroderma patients, Raynaud’s phenomenon symptoms are much more apparent in the winter when the brutal cold takes its toll.
Wendy Henderson
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Articles by Wendy Henderson
The Effects of Living With Scleroderma
Writer Amy Gietzen has lived with scleroderma for 16 years. Diagnosed with the condition at 19, she has seen her body go…
Pain, along with fatigue, is one of the main symptoms of scleroderma and one of the toughest to deal with…
11 Fast Facts About Systemic Sclerosis
Systemic sclerosis or scleroderma is a rare autoimmune disease where the body generates too much collagen. This overproduction of collagen causes thickening and hardening…
5 Ways Scleroderma Can Affect Your Eyes
Because scleroderma is an autoimmune disease that affects connective tissue, symptoms and complications can appear in any part of the body, including the…
Bob Saget is a television host, actor and comedian. He is also a very vocal advocate for scleroderma. Saget’s involvement…
7 Scleroderma Complications
Because scleroderma can affect any organ of the body, patients symptoms and complications vary greatly, according to the Mayo Clinic. Here are seven…
In this short video from the Scleroderma Foundation’s Greater Chicago Chapter, we see footage of…
5 Skin Problems Associated With Scleroderma
Scleroderma broken down literally means hard skin — sclero (skin) and derma (hard) — but hard skin isn’t the only…
How Scleroderma Affects the Gastrointestinal System
This video from the Scleroderma Foundation, Greater Chicago Chapter features the presentation Dr. Michael Brown made…