Minyan Gal, limericks aside, do you have trigger fingers syndrome in the thumbs (often comes from using the remote, btw). I had a problem where my thumb would contract during the night and I would wake up with a bent over thumb, which I had to straighten up each morning. The thumb hurt like the dickens and clicked all the time when bent, but I was scared to go for shots. Instead, I wrapped several bandaids around the knuckle, so it could not bend at all (effectively splinting it), and after a couple of weeks of doing this, the condition disappeared altogether.
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