Palm Near Pointer Finger Is Swollen As Well As The

palm near pointer finger is swollen as well as the pointer finger and moving to the next finger. I cannot close my pointer finger. At the beginning of the week it started to swell below the bottom joint of the pointer finger and I was told by our school nurse that it could be a ganglion cyst but it has continued to get worse. I too two Ibuprofin this morning and six hours later. It seems to take the edge off but the swelling continues. Red and warm