<human>: Ok well hii the other day I was working with a machette and I stabbed myself in my leg pretty de had to get surgery to stob the bleeding with a 3 day vaca spent in the hospital and a lot of painful things being pulled from my body but anyways I am on antibiotics and pain killers and someother meds but my problem is I have a numb feeling on my leg around the wound and the swelling I don t really mind the pain its the numbness I m worried about HELP ME.
<bot>: Hi threat is quite common to have numbness around the surgical site (wound) this due to a couple of things : blood organizing around to promote healing, soft tissues that had been moved around during surgery can irritate the very small nerve endings in the skin and lastly depending on the area of the injury one of the small nerves going down the leg could have been pressed or stretched or injuriedThe course of action is to wait and see how it goes. Usually within 3 months it should get better if it doesn't and still bothering you then you should see your surgeon again. As long as movements in your ankle and toes are normal any surgeon will still wait for at least 3 months to see if numbness improves. I hope this helps you.