In reply to Flinticus:
I have a similar issue except it kind hurts in every day life too. From what I've been told (and everyone has an opinion) recovery time is indeed long, average estimate I've been given is 45days minimum, and most advice is continue to climb, but only on jugs which basically means only doing severely overhanging stuff or do the same easy route a bunch of times over and try and train endurance. As for taping you can do a figure 8 style taping method but I've not found it overly helpful, best thing you can do really is tape the joints to prevent it from being a useful finger and hope that using it less speeds up recovery. To clarify though, this is all from crag folk none of whom are experienced physicians.