I had some minimal improvement from month 2 to month 3 after I had surgery. Then it all came back and then some. For me, the culprit is scar tissue.

Reading and typing make my pain much worse. I can imagine you're doing a lot of both during finals. The combination of tilting my neck and extending my arms somewhat when I read is a killer. And heavy books are worst. For big books, I download them to a Kindle so I don't have to deal with the weight.

With TOS, you don't necessarily have to "do" anything. Sometimes just doing things that used to be normal is too much.

Good luck,
Kelly