I suggest to you -- and remind myself! -- that an arthritis strength Tylenol or Aleve after cutting is always a good thing.
I recently did the same thing working on a log cabin quilt. After not having done almost any cutting/piecing/quilting for months, I spent 4 hours cutting, sewing, pressing, log after log and woke in the middle of the night in such hand pain I had to get out of bed and take meds. If I had done that just after, or even before I began sewing, it likely would have been a better story.
Got to remember that for next time!
Jan in VA