There is another thing that can cause swelling with pain.
It is called angioedema.
Here are some very informative links. The information on this is quite new and many doctors have not been trained to recognize or treat it properly.
http://www.haea.org/
Somewhere on this link are photos of the swollen hands and other body parts that can occur.
http://www.haea.org/patients/what-is-hae/
more here too:
http://www.hcplive.com/publications/...-04/2005-04_02
The splints are helpful... to take the pressure off that compression point.
I had a huge angioedema attack from a common drug..lisinopril, for blood pressure. Now I am recovering, and soon will get the testing for angioedema, which my doctor thinks I have had all along!
My hands will swell up sometimes, for "no reason" as well. It was finally attributed to hypothyroidism, but even with the levothyroxine I now use, my hands (esp the right) will swell some days.
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