Everyone's different I suppose, A bloke at my old work sliced his ring finger off, on the shop floor, and he wasn't a macho man in any way, but he reckoned it was numb straight away and couldn't really feel any pain from it. He wanted to come back in to work 48hrs later..... :shock: :shock:
I sliced a 2 inch gouge between my thumb and index finger, and had to have most of the muscle in that area removed in a+e. Didn't really hurt for the first 24hrs, then it really was quite agonising for about a week or two, especially when driving and changing gear.
More worrying than the pain, is if the body still thinks said severed appendage is still intact, I've seen and heard of people that can still feel limbs and stuff, even after amputation :shock: :shock: