So it turns out it was indeed paronychia, which just means infection of the fingernail. The swelling didn't go down any while I was asleep so I went to the clinic and they gave me an antibiotic, so now my finger won't go into self-destruct mode. About 8 hours after taking the antibiotic the swelling finally went down and the pressure with it, meaning I can actually use my middle finger for long periods of time again. Tomorrow I'll be back on the usual schedule, it was a nice break actually, was going brain-dead with the studying again.
Glad I went though, found out that this could actually spread to the bone, and that they would have to chop off the infected parts of the bone so it wouldn't spread further. That is super rare and worst case scenario, but I'm not trying to permanently damage my drawing hand let alone my body. I know any infection can get serious, but I never knew my freaking skeleton could get infected, whole new level of scary.
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