Constant Hand Numbness: Need Advice

In my experience with it, my options were bracing whenever I could (especially at night), getting steroid shots, physical therapy, or surgery. I've been bracing for years and bracing only did so much for me. Tried a little physical therapy and if anything it helped keep it tolerable while I'm working. By the time I got all the proper testing from my ortho (tested for severity last winter, was diagnosed about 3-4 years ago) it turned out both hands were just switching from moderate to severe, and were showing that I was close to getting signs of nerve damage. Did surgery for my right hand in February, and oh my god has it helped so much. It's so weird to feel my hand fall asleep and just plain fall asleep without it being the normal pain we all know from CT. Took me about a month for main recovery, then went back to work on weight restrictions for a few weeks after. My only mistake was not doing physical therapy for the recovery process. Getting my left hand done in August and I'm so so excited.

I personally have tried everything before, and nothing helped. I did the surgery for both hands and it feels 90% better. I only say 90% because you have a different pain that only comes and goes if you try to do something and hit the area where the surgery happened. That is only because the nerve there is now exposed under the skin. But, it is a lot better than being in pain all the time!! So, my opinion is to do the surgery. Two big reasons I did it was because I didn't want the pain anymore and I also didn't want to lose what feelings I had left in my hands. Yes there is some loss in areas of my hands but the longer you wait the more feeling you had in your hands will disappear all together. The nerve damage is serious.