Exercise it if you can. If not, I had a similar incident with the left thumb that prompted me to learn to chord without use of the thumb. It was interesting and I was getting pretty good. The upshot of that was the slow but steady returning use of the thumb, which the white coats claimed would probably never be fully recovered, and before long I was pretty much using it as I did before the injury. If it had not mended as it did I probably would have learned to chord without the thumb and at least developed in that direction.
Pain was and remains with me. It's not something I let become debilitating. I've learned to use a hand squeezer that taxes the thumb until it becomes numb and I can fall asleep. So far I've managed without meds of any kind and the pain, though I could say becomes acute at times, isn't as bad on my soul as the neighbor who doesn't return what he borrowed.
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