sliced my finger, bad!

Ouch! That really sucks. Luckily I've never injured my fingers...

 

Mmm... numbness means nerve damage - you may have inadvertently cut one of the cutaneous nerves innervating the skin of your finger. You should probably catch up with your local doctor to see if anything can be done now - it is probably too late. Microsurgery could have joined up the cut nerve when the cut happened.

The alternative is that you still have some internal swelling causing nerve compression - if this is so, the numbness will go away once the swelling comes down.

In the end, if it's just numbness, don't worry about it. This should not affect your mobility.

I am assuming you have no tendon damage ie. you can bend your finger normally with no deformity.

 

Did almost the same thing when I was 5. I put a steak knife through the base joint of my right thumb. Came damn near to cutting it off, it went about half way through. I have a really cool scar there now, which freaks people out occasionally.

It will be numb for a while, like BG said. It's probably just swelling. Tingling means that there ARE nerve pulses getting through, so the nerve isn't severed. Maybe damaged or pinched, but not severed. Still, go to the doc and ask him/her about it.

Rock on
Eric

 

I used to cook in a Japanese tepanyaki place. We had sharpened a bread knife to cut onion slices at an incredible rate. I was cutting an onion, and my finger slipped, causing me to slice into it until the knife was stopped by the bone. I have almost no scar, because it was a really thin blade that was VERY sharp. It bled a ridiculous amount, but was stitched up and healed just fine. Good luck Jason, I'll think happy thoughts of fully flexible non-numb fingers for you.

 

Have you seen a doctor?
If it is still has tingle you may want to.

My hands are pretty beat, I can gash myself and not even feel it anymore.
It there isn't blisters it just means there is no room from the cuts.

 

O.K., Warwick. This is what you are wanting to hear and the best part is, this is exactly how it happened.

About four years ago I cut the tip of my left middle finger nearly to the bone with a power saw. After the cut healed, I had a tingly, numb feeling in my fingertip. Almost felt like an electric shock when i would bump it accidently.

I know that I should have, but I didn't get medical attention.

All problems cleared up on thier own and now I don't feel any difference in the finger that I cut and any of my other fingers.

Watch out for infection. I have a lot of confidence in Neosporin. That's all I used when I cut it and it's worked on a lot of other scrapes and cuts in the past.

Still the best idea is to let a doctor look at it.

Good luck, and I hope you haven't done any major damage.

Pkr2

 

Man, that sucks. I was about a pound or two of pressure away from breaking my right index finger today. I was beating my thumb and middle fingers on the side of the desk, and I keep my index finger folded against my palm. So anyway, I'm sitting there beating my fingers against the desk[really really fast and really really hard] and my index finger comes out a bit, and BAM! It hits the corner of the desk and slides down very painfully. It hurt.

 

Damn...that does suck...hey eric...i cut my finger too...i was cuttin something and it went right thru my thumb...it almost went thru...the scar rules tho : i didnt goto my doctor tho...i juss washed it off and put some bandaids on heh

 

I agree Erwin, with a mild extension, I would also be concerned with development of a flexion contracture given the location of the injury and susequent pain in flexion. You may be developing a longitudinal scar across the flexion crease, which could lead to the contracture. But its hard to tell without eyeballing the injury itself.

See your doctor.


Mike

 

So send us a pic. Wait, that's disgusting.

Rock on
Eric

 

a few years ago, right after I started playing bass, i had a freak shop accident in the model lab here at Tech.
We were spot welding this frame together out of about 6 gauge wire for a model and ran out of wire, sent a girl to the hardware store for more steel wire, told her NOT to buy galvanized wire 'cause galvanization and electro-welding don't go together.
She came back with a big roll of galvanized wire.

So, in order to weld this stuff I was cleaning the spots we wanted to weld off on a wire wheel mounted on the grinder AND... the wire wheel grabbed the wire in my hands and twisted it bread tie style around my index and middle fingers of my right (my rhythm) hand.

Remember this is 6 gauge wire. Although in immense pain I was still rather calm at this point, for some reason shock calms me, I guess its a good survival skill. The first thing I did was to go and ask the shop assistant guy for a pair of angle dikes, he proceeded to look for said pliers then turned and realized what was going on as I had this wierd steel sculpture entrapping my now quite swollen fingers.
Him and another girl there walked me to the infirmary, luckily only about half a block away, where they initially had little concern until I passed out on the floor in front of the receptionist's desk.

Waking up after hitting my head on the floor they carried me to an exam room, called in the doctor on duty, he used this cool tool they use for cutting rings off to remove the metal and it stopped hurting, for about five minutes.

Then he gave me a shot of something and everything stopped being important.

POINT OF THE STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After that I went to an orthopedist and found that the end bone in my index finger was broken into at least 7 pieces and there wasn't really alot he could do short of very extreme and expensive surgery. The wire split my index finger open to the bone from about the big knuckle to the nail.

I still don't have enough strength in that finger to comfortably pluck the bass and the scar tissue makes a noticeable different noise that the good tissue in the tip of my middle finger.

While in a freaky splint I learned to play bass with a pick!










If I had a job I wouldn't leave such drawn out responses.

 

The tip of my lo e-string went about half inch into my foot once ( i jus throw my strings on the floor when i cut 'em off) and it felt kinda tingly but it lasted only a few minutes. neosporin rocks indeed

 

Chrashed on my bicycle 10-11 years ago, snapped the outer tendon on my right index finger. It got stitched back together about 1 hour later.

When the bandages came off the finger was more or less locked in half-crooked position, like a claw. Took a long time of stretching and training (oh the pain!) to make it work again. Still can't straighten it out completely, but I can play the bass!

It still hurts in cold weather...

 

Key Point: Did you learn anything from it?



ike

 

Man, this thread is making me vince in pain - all those graphic stories... Argh! It's like nails on the blackboard, but ten times worse. Please good doctors, make it stop!

 

Heh, my friend (who is a bassist) had a really whacky inssident. He jumped, whis abss and somehow managed to catch his hand on the bridge. Well, it cut from around his wrist to nearly his index finger. crazy. he's ok now though. He had to take quite a long break tho.

Now for mine.
When I was a little younger, I liked to make model planes and such. My dad had tough me how to use the knives etc. He eventually gave in and let me use the sharp baby. Gah.
I was making an edge nice and smooth... Somehow sliced into my thumb. Strange reason I never noticed it. Until I saw blood land on my pants. AT that momment, I was cutting another edge. Straight into my index finger. LOL man that was funny. Both had managed to reach the bone

I jumped up. 'AHHHHHHHHHH!!! AHHH! AHH!! S*** SH** S*** HAAAAA!!'
There was blood spraying in mor ethan one direction. Now i got some really cool scares !