Finger swelling

[BreSchaff]

When i was 11 a girl broke my right index finger at school and no one believed me when I said it was broken. So obviously it wasn't splinted or even buddy tapped. In the eight grade my mom took me to a doctor that told her that my finger did break and that the bone healed eight degrees off. After six months of trying to buddy tape it and splint it, the bone only moved two degrees. The doctor recommended surgery to pin and straighten out the bone and my mom decided on getting me the surgery. The finger unfortunately never went straight and was stuck in what looked like it was in the asl sign for "X" or I was making an R with my finger. Two years later it began to turn bright red and hurt really bad. They found that I had started to grow a second finger (or bone) underneath my my finger. The best description of it would be a bone spur.

I went thru ANOTHER surgery to get the bone removed before it could really hurt me. The bone came out and measured 2 and a half inches long. But it's been a year and a half since that surgery but the knuckle/joint that's on the actual finger (not your hand), is swollen so badly that I can't curl my finger all the way and it doesn't lie flat on the table when I strain to make it flat, even when I press down on it with my other hand. Can anyone tell me if the swelling in my knuckle and joint will EVER go down so that I can lay it flat on the table with no help from my other hand. Or tell me anything I can do to help the swelling to go down even a little because it is very swollen (when my other fingers are lying flat i have a good 5 centimeters in between my knuckle and the table) and kind of ugly looking.

[samanthauriza]

anti flamitory pills will help greatly talk to your dr.

[BreSchaff]

I've talked to her and she gave me some brace thing but even though I wear it every day for 4 hours like she told me it isn't working.