Originally posted by travlin'easy:
My right hand had severe problems for more than three years. My finger tips would split and bleed while playing, and eventually the skin began to slough off. I went to 14 doctors, and none of them figured out what was causing the problem. I was to the point where I was wearing a white cotton glove in order to play at all, and at times the blood would ooze through the glove. Turned out to be a vitamin D deficiency--my blood level was just 10. A level of 50 is normal. It took just three weeks of taking vitamin D supplements (5,000 IU daily) to alleviate the problem. I know how you must feel, but six weeks from now you'll be back in the saddle.
Good Luck,
Gary 
Hell Gary,
That is some story, you wouldn't think that possible and such a simple answer to correct it, funny thing the human body, do you still take the medication or did your body correct this problem. Hope Montuneman gets better quickly, no ice skating for us old ones hips are the things that go.
Tony
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