Firstly, why are you having surgery for a nodule? Do you have any contraction of the finger?

I do have duputryens on both hands. Left is worse. Doc said I am at 35 percent on left , 20 on right.

I wonder what they gave you. Propofol ?
Milk of Amnesia.

I had a limited fasciectomy for plus 90 degrees contracture of little finger. It was a zig-zag incision starting from the DIP joint (joint closest to the tip) of little finger and extended to the base of my palm. I counted about 29 stitches. One thing I remember the surgeon telling me after the surgery was that, "very few of his patients said that they ever had pain from the procedure". He said it as though he was mildly surprised. The pictures look like it would hurt, and that is what I thought prior to the surgery.

One of my best friends had a similar surgery last year. He sent me a picture of his hand last week. His results after a year looked similar to my hand, zero contracture. Hopefully his hand will stay zero for as long as my hand has.

My hand for the last eleven years since surgery is 100 percent as good as it was prior to Dupuytren's. I did my own hand therapy after the surgery. My surgeon said that was totally acceptable as long as a person did it. It was mostly just flexing the hand open and closed and trying to make a fist whenever thinking about it during the day. Natually you won't be weight lifting, but most other things are possible. It is not like you sit for three months. I was golfing at about three months which was good considering it was the little finger on the left hand which receives stress from a right handed golfer.

The recovery is generally not painful at all. I had very little to no pain during the recovery. I never took anything more than Tylenol. I took the Tylenol during the first couple of weeks just to make sure. Then I would take a couple of Tylenol before going to bed for a few weeks. I wore a night time splint for about three months.

If you are planning on surgery, it is easiest between 30-50 degrees contracture. Many, perhaps most, people never reach that great of contracture. I waited too long (90 degrees) before having the surgery, but it was still very successful. I would do it again if needed for the other hand.