Pain in pinky while pressing

I'm 26 and I've just been getting back into weightlifting. I've seen
excellent gains in a fairly short period of time but lately when I
press anything of considerable weight, I get a very sharp pain in my
pinky finger that is so unbearable that I cannot complete the lift.

This all started maybe four days ago and there doesn't seem to be any
sign of it getting better. I've been just sticking to squats, chins
and pushups in the meantime(I tried dips but the same issue with the
pain in the finger occurs.)

Needless to say, I really hope I can start
benching again pretty soon. I'm thinking that it might possibly be a
broken blood vessel in my hand, but really I have no damn clue.
If anybody has an idea of what could be going
on, how long this might take to heal or any other kind of advice, it
would be very appreciated.

Sounds like a nerve thing doesn't it? I used to get finger pain and numbness
from cycling, i figure due to the weight on my palms. Gloves didn't help but
rest certainly did: a shoulder muscle was responsible i suspect. Have you
upped the weight recently?

Have you tried the glove route and or perhaps some wrist warm-ups exercises?
Even deepheat might do the trick.

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> I'm 26 and I've just been getting back into weightlifting. I've seen
> excellent gains in a fairly short period of time but lately when I
> press anything of considerable weight, I get a very sharp pain in my
> pinky finger that is so unbearable that I cannot complete the lift.
>
> This all started maybe four days ago and there doesn't seem to be any
> sign of it getting better. I've been just sticking to squats, chins
> and pushups in the meantime(I tried dips but the same issue with the
> pain in the finger occurs.)
>
> Needless to say, I really hope I can start
> benching again pretty soon. I'm thinking that it might possibly be a
> broken blood vessel in my hand, but really I have no damn clue.
> If anybody has an idea of what could be going
> on, how long this might take to heal or any other kind of advice, it
> would be very appreciated.