Burst capillary in finger...

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Hi all - just wondering what I can do for this!

Yesterday evening I was clearing out a drawer and came across an old spring hand-exerciser and thought it would be fun to see if I could still "press" as many as I used to. Left hand 10 reps, no problem, right hand 10 reps no problem, left again and then right but as I was finishing the second "set" with the right hand I felt a shooting pain in my middle finger and within seconds my finger was beginning to swell (not horribly just inexorably) so I rushed to the kitchen, poured frozen peas into a tea towel and squished them round the finger.

Today the finger is black/blue on the underside and top of main knuckle like a regular bruise and started the day quite stiff but is now working reasonably well.

I googled for this symptom and one site stated that a Vit C deficiency can apparently cause capillary weakness ... my worry is that something like this will reoccur or if the capillaries in the middle finger are weak does this mean other fingers are at risk.

Advice please.

Thank you