Hi, I too was diagnosed at a young age, I was 27. From
experience, quitting smoking is the only relief from the symptoms
although I don't think it ever goes away, and neither does the urge
to continue smoking. I too had blockages in my legs and in 1989 and
1990, I underwent bypass surgeries in my right leg. After an
extensive healing process, I did well and refrained from smoking for
the most part, in excess of 10 years. And now, after some personal
problems, I resumed the old habit and my symptoms have returned.
Once again my toes (right and left this time) are turning lovely
shades of red, purple and black, are splitting at the tips and are
causing extreme pain. Yet I still find myself smoking. I don't mean
to sound discouraging, but the prognosis can only be based upon our
own will power, and in that department, I feel like a failure.

--- In beurgersdisease@yahoogroups.com, margie kolk <lmargie@g...>
wrote:
> Hello, I am 29 years old and have been told I have beurgers
Disease. They
> told me that it is caused from smoking. Does your husband smoke?
Exactly
> what kind of problems is he having? The problems I have is that I
have
> blockages in my legs and they told me that if I don't quit smoking
then I am
> going to lose my leg. They also told me that if I quit smoking, the
beurgers
> disease will go away. How true that is I am not sure. If you would
like you
> could email me back and I can try to help you in any way possible.
>
> From: vcollette40@a...
> Reply-To: beurgersdisease@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:40:24 EST
> To: beurgersdisease@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Beurgers Disease] help
>
>
> i am a wife of a 55yr old man that has been told he has this
beurgers
> disease
> about 2yrsago he has been having all kinds of problems and i am
desperate
> to
> find someone that can talk to us that can shed some light on this
PROBLEM
> please someone that knows something please talk to us
>
>
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