As one who has suffered and still suffers from extreme carpal tunnel syndrome as well as arthritis nerve damage deforming hands I cannot believe that you would say that stretching and braces as well as massage will take your pain away and you won’t have to have surgery. I am so disgusted with the doctors they refused to help me because I refuse to get another ECG or whatever that thing is I had one 15 years ago and it was so painful I won’t do it again they will not treat me they can see my hands they’ve already diagnosed it but yet they’ll do nothing for me until I have that test. I don’t want surgery I want quality of life i scream and I cry all night long I can’t take it the pain is overwhelming my middle fingers are swollen my little fingers are deformed my thumbs are deformed my wrist pain is unbearable and I’m ready at times to take a long walk off a short pier. I work at a grocery store unloading trucks working registers was a hairstylist twenty years and I have no idea how I will survive. I don’t know how I am able to work I guess because it’s a matter of being homeless.