Guest Greycap,If you have trigger finger and I'm sure you do by your own discription don't hesitate go to a surgeon and get it corrected.It is a simple operation that used to be performed in a doctors office but now you have to go to short stay or anyway you do in Oregon.The surgery takes about 5 Minutes with one stitch in the palm of your hand with full use of the hand and finger the following day.It can't get any simplier than that so by all means don't try to live with something that is that easely correct Louie Roy