muscle or tendon damage?
 

I cut last night and it was much worse than i intended it to be. It has stopped bleeding and i taped it with steri strips, but it really hurts. I don't know if i may have accidentally damaged a muscle or tendon or something. It hurts to move my hand in certain ways. I don't know how to tell, or how serious something like that is. I know when i doubt go to the doctor, but i really don't want to go. Does anyone know how to tell if there is damage other than to the skin?

The pain cud just be the tension within your skin when you move. Does it feel like it cramps/ like a muscle spasm (I don't know if you've had them; kind of feels like cramp/ your muscles pulling or typing themselves in knots! Great description I know; like an intense, sharp ache I suppose)? Do you have problems moving your fingers? Is the problem moving your wrist just due to pain or does it feel like there is something else stopping it?

I can move my wrist fine, but when i pick up something i get this sharp pain where the cut is. Making a fist hurts. It's not a constant pain, and i can do most stuff without it hurting, but when i use a certain muscle to pick up heavier stuff it hurts. I closed my laptop and grabbed it to put it on the couch and when the entire weight of the computer was picked up i almost dropped it because of how bad it hurt. I just want to make sure that it's not something that can't heal itself.

The fact that clenching a fist hurts and you say it hurts more when you use one muscle makes me think that yeah, you may have knicked a muscle/tendon. It's a good idea to get this checked out because though, in most circumstances, it'll have to be done in within 12hrs for them to stitch though, if it is over this time they can make sure it's got a proper dressing on it reduce chances of infection and also so they can check your muscle/nerve function. They can also sort out physio if they feel this may help. Plus depending on the damage, It is a good idea to keep a ACEwrap on your wrist to support it and try to rest it if you can. Try not to do things that hurt as this will be putting strain on it reducing healing ability.

Muscle can take quite some time to heal. Once sutured a muscle takes around 20days to heal so one which isn't stitched may take longer depending on the damage done and there is always a chance you will have long term damage remaining in it.

my wrist hurt to move when id SI'ed badly. i dont want to explain too much in case the detail is inappropriate but i think it was kind of like id just knocked the tendon type of thing if that makes sense as it was exposed from the cut id done