I’ve had bunion surgery on both feet. The full surgery, with a 3"-4" incision, first metatarsal cut and resectioned, then screwed together, and incision closed with staples.
I had the weird half-tingly feeling as described during and after healing. Also some shock-like feelings that the dr. said might be the nerves growing back together.
After several years, feeling in both feet/big toes is back to normal.
I cut my thumb three days ago and got 5 stitches and its healing fine, but OMG this jolting pain when i do certain things …is scaring the crap out of me. Ill go to put something down or touch something and it literally jolts my entire arm. I’m nervous and beginning to think i have some type of nerve damage. Have you heard anything about your pain? has it gotten better?:dubious:
I cut my knees up in a car wreck then had a few knee surgeries on the right side over the years. You could stick pins in various places all up and down that lower leg and I may or may not feel it. Every now and then I’ll get a weird tingle or twinge but then, at my age, that kind of stuff can happen anywhere on me.
Nerves DO regenerate - Very slowly. But they need a scaffold on which to work, and a severed nerve may not be sufficient.
I suffered from Cubital Capture of my Ulnar Nerve, left side. This reduced my left hand to a partial claw; nerve conductivity was down under 20%. After Cubital Release surgery, the nerve has slowly returned to life, albeit not entirely. I’d guess conductivity around 80%, and that may be as best it’ll ever be. I can type with it again, but my left hand is weaker than it was before the nerve damage, and will never likely be as strong as it once was. As for weirdness, well, occasionally, it hurts like hell. It generally cramps my outser two fingers up into some bizarre pretzel-looking mess, and I literally have to grab my hand and force the fingers straight again. Once I do that, they seem to rememeber what they’re supposed to be doing, and the pain stops. Also, my small finger on my left hand feels mildly ‘tingly’ ALL the time - it’s not somethign that you can ignore - it’s like someone whispering in your ear all day long.
I had surgery on my right index finger. The incision was about 3/4" right down the center of the tip, palm-side. For a year or more it felt a little numb, and strangely uncomfortable if I put pressure on it, but after a while it was normal. A surgical incision is a little different than an accidental stab, but you will probably be OK. Similar experience when I cut the side of my pinky on a piece of broken glass. It was numb for a long time but all feeling returned. Hands heal slowly.
I just cut my index finger 5 days ago on my left hand right near the back of my finger. I got three stitches and now have a straight line going up my finger that is numb/tingly.
And certain movements make a ripping burning feeling in my finger, but not on the stitches. It’s so bad I scream every time it happens. It hurts so bad. Please tell me it gets better!!!
Haunted (the OP) is still active. If you are really curious maybe shoot a PM or let them know you woke up this thread.
Personally I have had that feeling/pain after a couple different deep cuts and it has always faded after time for me.
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It’s been a little over two years since I accidentally stabbed myself. My finger is at 100% normal usefulness- that shooting pain along the nerve pathway that happened when I put weight on the finger muscle (e.g. lifting a gallon jug of milk) dissipated within a few more weeks after I originally posted. I’d say it’s also at about 95% normal sensation. Mostly I don’t even notice it unless I focus my attention on it and think to myself “So, how’s that finger feeling?” When I do that I can detect a very faint, almost imperceptible tingling. If I rub the scar lightly I get a slightly stronger tingling sensation along the nerve pathway, but even then it’s pretty mild.
It’s turned out to be no big deal.
Hello, sorry to hear about your injury. Unfortunately I’ve had too many similar experiences, and am proof that nerves are not fully understood, and cannot be accurately predicted as far as how/if they’ll heal, as well as other aspects.
I shattered my collar bone when I was 15 into about 9 pieces, absolutely obliterated. Of course I needed surgery to repair it. And after a month or two, when most of the healing process should have been complete and back to normal, I noticed that the entire left side of my chest and all the way down my left arm to about the elbow was very very screwy in terms of nerve pain and numbness. It’s weird, it’s like it’s numb, but also extremely extremely super sensitive. Certain types of feel cannot be felt, while others can be felt too much, and are extremely painful. Like I can feel if I have an itch in that area, but cannot pinpoint exactly where. And if I scratch where I think the itch is, not even very hard, it results in excruciating pain. Simple.scratching hurts so bad. But lightly running my fingertips along the skin can hardly be felt.
Also, I’m now 27. So 12 years have passed, and it has basically stayed the same.
When I was 22, I got into a very serious rollover car accident. Was going 85mph, on an on-ramp about to get on the freeway, and idk if my tire blew or if I just lost control somehow, but I tumbled down the side of the on-ramp, as there was a pretty good Hill on either side of the ramp, it was kind of raised up. But I rolled over a dozen times, about 14 or 15, or so they tell me. I don’t remember any of this. They had to cut the roof of my car off with the jaws of life to get me out, but I only remember waking up in the hospital.
Anyways, I was wearing my seatbelt, and each time my car rolled, my shoulder slammed into the side/door of my car. The result is and has been absolutely horrible. I had pretty much constant relentless pain, like lever 10 pain, for more than a year
They told me that the nerve under the shoulder blade, I believe it’s the axillary nerve, was stretched so much from hitting the car door each time i rolled that it just died, completely. Within a month or 2, all the muscle in my shoulder had atrophied and went away, leaving my shoulder all skinny and bony and sickly looking, especially when compared to my normal right shoulder. They also said that the seatbelt caused damage as well, essentially ripping my shoulder back each time I rolled, and Ive never found out what caused which damages.
I had ripped many tendons and ligaments, and tore my rotator cuff also, which only compounded the problems and was excruciating.
Anyways I had many doctors tell me different things, and try different things. Some said that the nerve will heal over time, others said that it’s possible it will never come back and that it might stay dead. Had some say I needed surgery to try to fix it, and others that said surgery would be a terrible idea and would only cause more problems. And some who said that it was my choice, that it may help and may not. So basically I had doctors who told me that each option across-the-board was the answer. Which had me feeling like no one knew what they were talking about. That was one thing that helped me realize that the body, nerves especially, isn’t fully understood. It’s been over 4 years from that accident and my should muscle still hasn’t come back, the nerve has remained dead. It wasn’t until maybe 2 years ago (roughly 2 years after the accident) that I stopped having constant round the clock pain. It still hurts, whenever I lift things, or especially if I try laying on it or wake up to horrible pain because I accidentally rolled over onto that shoulder. Because it has no muscle around it and because my rotator cuff is torn, my shoulder wants to pop out of its socket very easily, and has a couple times. It almost pops out just from turning my steering wheel. Takes not a lot of force.
Anyways those are the two main instances I’ve had with nerve pain, was told a huge range of different outcomes to expect, as well as different avenues of treatment. Left me feeling discouraged and not at all confident in medical professionals. And I had excellent insurance and was able to see supposedly some of the best doctors available.
So I don’t know what to tell you, other than hopefully you find a good doc who really knows their stuff.
Anyways, those are just two instances.
I could also tell you all about the journey and about the results from falling off of a 33ft waterfall, landing on a huge flat Rock, snapping both wrists, shattering both knee caps into over 20 pieces each, shattering my right elbow, and smashing my face, and some other injuries from it. That’s a long story that I won’t tell unless someone wants me to. 
Hope something I said helped, and good luck on your road to recovery!
I had knee replacement surgery 13 months ago, and there’s still an area about 2" in diameter that’s completely numb. It’s below and to the right of the knee cap. The surgeon says not to worry, since there’s nothing to feel down there anyway.
In 1977 (a week or so after Elvis died, to be specific) I cut the ring finger of my left hand to the bone with a razor blade (inside, towards the thumb, right above the 1st knuckle). I was only 20, and I didn’t have any insurance, so I just put Neosporin and a bandaid on it and in a week it healed just fine. Except, it was numb from the scar to the tip, on the inside. I mentioned this to my father, a physician, who looked at it and said, “yep, the main nerve runs down that side.” I asked him if the numbness would go away and he said “Maybe, but it might take a while”. I am surprised I remember the conversation so vividly. Anyway, 42 years later, I can report that I can still see the scar, but it is just a very thin line. Most of the numbness is gone, but some is still there. Funny, I have lived longer with the injury than without it, so a little numbness on the inside of my ring finger seem normal to me.
I had jaw surgery 10 years ago. There is a lot to feel in the face, and I still feel it.