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Is It Normal For Finger To Go Numb After Cut From Glass?

I cut my finger on a glass bottle last weekend. It was quite deep and today I ve taken the steristrips off. Just above the cut and right to the top of the finger is completely numb. Is this normal? And also I keep getting a shooting burning pain in the part of my finger which I can still feel.
posted on Wed, 26 Jun 2013
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No it is not. That means that your digital nerve to the finger is cut and hence the loss of sensation. Take it from a hand surgeon with thousands of cases of experience. And the shooting pain from the part which you can feel is from what is called a neuroma - which occurs when a nerve is cut. Please visit a plastic/microvascular surgeon and a nerve repair needs to be done. That alone will solve both issues.
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Is It Normal For Finger To Go Numb After Cut From Glass?

No it is not. That means that your digital nerve to the finger is cut and hence the loss of sensation. Take it from a hand surgeon with thousands of cases of experience. And the shooting pain from the part which you can feel is from what is called a neuroma - which occurs when a nerve is cut. Please visit a plastic/microvascular surgeon and a nerve repair needs to be done. That alone will solve both issues.