losing sleep

I 'phoned your clinic a couple of months ago and left a message, having woken in the early morning with severe pain in my left hand which persisted for perhaps 30 minutes. You were kind enough to respond and to try to contact me on more than one occasion but I missed your calls and having suffered no repetition of such severity - in fact, a symptom-less week's holiday when I did nothing much more than drive, eat and drink - I did not follow the matter up. My apologies.
Having returned to 'normality', which includes some gardening, DIY and not very much cycling, I find that, although the severe pain which I suffered on that one occasion has not happened again, I am being woken at 3 am and, often, again at 6 am by the pain in my left hand. I take ibuprofen on these occasions but it is impossible for me to know if this actually helps because the pain will subside of its own accord in due course. My right hand has milder symptoms. I am right handed and not conscious of exerting my left hand more than my right but note that the left was broken and mended imperfectly, many years ago. Sometimes I feel a sensation like a mild electric shock in that hand.
I have retaken the self-diagnosis questionnaire: the result suggests that my symptoms have reduced since the first time I reported them. My impression is quite different - perhaps it's my tolerance which is improving.
In any case, I am more and more inclined to think that some intervention as you suggested at my consultation might indeed be appropriate.
Martin Collins