what's up with my finger?
 

so 2 times this has happened while wrenching, a coworker said i broke a blood vessel in it.....
it seems accurate as to what happens with it, it swells up, goes numb for a few minutes, and gets difficult to bend because of the pressure.....
what can i do? how serious is this? it goes down and back to normal after a few hours but feels slightly bruised......
anyone else experience this?

it's not your middle finger, is it bell? ;)

Where abouts is the injury? I get those once in awhile between my thumb and fore finger. Broken blood vessel sounds about right.

my pinky finger inside of the joint, about where a wrench would hit it when grabbed......

Yup. You broke a blood vessel. You must not wrench all the time. ;)

Isn't there an unwritten rule that injury threads require pictures?

Trigger finger?

I wrench for a living.....and happily it's mainly on porsches :D
I'll take a pick the next time it happens, it'll look like a vienna sausage LOL
Fist time it happened when I was doing a clutch in a 951......
The second was when I was putting a 914 tranny back on the tranny jack after a rebuild....I guess I'll have to be carefull how I grab heavy things for a while.....

Never had any problems with the trigger finger, the middle finger gets used a lot driving in orlando too LOL

http://www.replant.ca/photos/2007/ww...spring_002.jpg

Holy crap!!

yeah, that might freak me out a bit.

Stab it with a really HOT, SHARP instrument. And take a pic.

you didn't hurt your @#$%ing finger, you hurt the finger next to your #$@%ing finger.:D

That's cellulitis with an abscess. That's different than what the OP had.

thats GANGRENE! cut it OFF NOW!

I'd suggest that you should soak it in cider, but that joke doesn't work in writing as well as hearing it in person ;)

She'll still like it tho .................

First thing I thought of, this does not refer to which finger it is, it is what you call the problem. The tendon sort of gets hung up in the sheath. Think of it as a cable with a kink in it, so it won't slide smoothly.

going with Noah,
you have an infection ..
sack burst/infiltrates the finger..

I see a few slow healing scars as well..

Rika

It may be an insult to the blood vessel (or rupture). Blood vessels do not "break". ;)

This is common in the fingers or toes. The body will naturally absorb the blood in the tissue (it will clot quickly unless you suffer from a clotting problem or are on meds).

The above picture is certainly an infection (the skin was opened). There may or may not be a ruptured vessel. You can dig into the skin if you like, but you should probably just treat it with some antibiotics.

I am almost sure that there is no subungual melanoma that frequents the nevi in the nail beds and could present difficulty in reference to the differentiation from the subungual hemationa and a chronic parconychail infection.

If the problem does not quickly improve in just a few days, you need to see a IM doc.

Fyi.....the pic danny posted IS NOT my finger......mine was no where near that nasty LOL