Susan ... my doc didn't say anything about it being a precursor to carpal tunnel. She did say that it was the tendons on the top of my hand that were inflamed and that was what was affecting my wrist and my fingers.

It much better today. I will continue using the brace during the day, some, and at night, for quite a while, because I'm afraid of inadvertently doing something to make it flare up or that I will sleep on my hand "wrong."

moonchild