Hurting!
I've been playing for six months, fingerstyle for the past month or so. My experience has been just about like starting over because the fretting hand seems to be doing much more holding of chords. The barre at the first position causes me problems with aches too, but I only go at it long enough to feel the ache and then do something else. After 18 months, I would have thought you would see improvement. It may help to ice down your fretting hand after playing and be careful about doing too much. I wish I could do two hours a day and would if I had the time but I wonder if my hand could take it. If you are as old a hacker as I am, there is probably only so much the hand can take without going into full-blown repetitive stress injury of some kind. Be careful!
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