Shelly,
What surgery did you have? Trigger finger? Or What? I have alot of pain, but it is from a nerve from the tigger finger operation, and, it is in the same spot of the cord of the Dups. I am getting PT for it now, and the deep massage and therapy is working to relieve it, if you keep the massage up at home. It is from a scar tissue that forms around the nerve after that surgery somtimes. Especially on the middle finger.
Too bad for me, that the nerve damage from the trigger finger came up in the exact same spot of the cord and the therapist told me as he was massageing my hand, that he felt other noduals in the same hand.
I had no thought that this would help, but it has. It takes some real dedication to massage at home, and the exersizes.
Good thoughts for you.
Patty

Patty,

Though not often a major factor in Dups, I have personally talked by phone with a previous sufferer who's main reason for having OS was to relieve intense pain from her Dups tissue. The surgery went quite well...textbook, and her pain was eliminated. Ten years later she had no recurrence. As much of an NA advocate as I am on record as being, here was a case where clearly OS may have been the better solution because it removed *all* the diseased tissue and stopped the pain completely.

In my nonmedical but informed opinion, Just because you have pain, that alone doesn't mean you necessarily have *other* problems besides Dups. NA can eliminate some pain as well. It did in my case, at least for the short term.

God Bless. May it go well with you.