Heres a question: How do you hold your pencil?
I hold mine between my pointer and middle, with my thumb, pointer, middle, and ring finger touching it someway near the bottom. I don't know why but for some reason, around 6 years about it started to hurt to hold the way you're supposed to and I found that holding it that way eased it. Now, within these past couple of weeks I've started to find myself holding it the "correct" way again. I have no idea why or where this discomfort comes from