Thanks for the responses, everyone!

I'm sorry if this is a silly question, but those of you who had the surgery, does the doctor chose a different surgery depending on whether the Botox works or not? I was told that mine was diagnostic and he would not repeat it.

Also, how well did the surgeries work? Are you pain-free now? Or in less pain? Most things I've found on the internet talk about people's bad experiences, because people with good experiences aren't as motivated to write about them. I also haven't been able to find any good studies on what the success rate is on surgeries, probably because each patient is so different. And given that I've never felt relief from the pain, I'm having a hard time imagining anything working!

But I'm slowly regaining feeling in my fingers after these injections...