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@sueinmn, thanks for your reply! Any reduction in pain would be a gift. Right now it feels like there is a needle in my wrist that gets tweaked every time I move my arm a certain way, when something bumps a finger, and sometimes with no identifiable cause. For the past several hours, this pain has been constant. I can't take opiates as they make me nauseous, so I'm using Tylenol and ibuprofen which only take down the pain about 10%. The external hypersensitivity makes it hard to sleep since my wrist and lower portion of my thumb hurt anytime they make contact with anything. I prop up my wrist/hand all day, but it's impossible for them to not touch anything at night. I can't wait for this to be over and am praying that the surgery helps.