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As always, everything depends on exactly happens and how it happens.
Even if you've already been injured, you can certainly continue to try to defend yourself if you can articulate why a reasonable person in like circumstance would conclude that the assailant was going to continue the attack. But if the assailant has broken off and fled, you'd be hard pressed to be able to justify your continued use of force.
Those are, in fact, the basic rules. In other words, just because you were injured first doesn't change the law of self defense.
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"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper
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