Do I need to see my doctor?
Not normally. If you follow the right advice and take the right medication, your wrist, hand or finger problem should improve over the next six weeks.
If you experience any of the following, you should speak to your doctor.
- Your wrist or fingers are misshapen.
- Unable to move your wrist, hand or fingers.Your wrist, hand and fingers are swollen or hot.
- Pain that gets worse and worse.
- Your wrist, hand or finger problem has not improved within six weeks.