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Is Pain While Walking After Stabbed Leg With Scissors Followed By Bleeding Serious?

I was walking while holding a lot of office supplies (pencils, pens, a pair of scissors and a binder). I dropped one on the pens and bent down to pick it up. As I bent down I felt a slight stabbing in my leg. I assumed it to just be a pen and bent down all the way picking up my dropped pen. When I stood up my leg started hurting really bad (inside thigh). I looked down and it turned out I stabbed myself with the scissors. It is a small cut, but it was really sharp thin scissors and it bled a lot. I got it to stop and bandaged it. Now its been about three four hours and it hurts when I walk. And it hurts like the size of a softball around my little cut. I don t know what to do. Is it okay?
Wed, 2 Nov 2016
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Hi first check if all your muscles are working fine or not,similarly check movements of all joints. Check the colour of your toes. If all these are normal then chances are you have not damaged anything seriously. Next see the wound - thoroughly wash it-- If it is large then go to ER for repair, If small one without a large cut then keep on dressing with antiseptic solution. Take pain killers as and when required. If at any stage you are not comfortable visit Emergency or your doctor.
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Is Pain While Walking After Stabbed Leg With Scissors Followed By Bleeding Serious?

Hi first check if all your muscles are working fine or not,similarly check movements of all joints. Check the colour of your toes. If all these are normal then chances are you have not damaged anything seriously. Next see the wound - thoroughly wash it-- If it is large then go to ER for repair, If small one without a large cut then keep on dressing with antiseptic solution. Take pain killers as and when required. If at any stage you are not comfortable visit Emergency or your doctor.