Why do my weapons do no damage

So I am playing bloodborne for the first time and it has quickly became one of my favourite games and is nothing short of a masterpiece, but I have one problem that my wepons do no damage. For refrence I am at mergos wet nurse and the only side bosses i havent deafened are logarius and ebristus and I’m at level 45. I had the saw cleaver +8 as my main weapon and it does only 193 damage so I switched to Ludwig’s holy blade and I still only do 235 and whenever I see people online they do much more damage. also my atrubuite bonus is all at Bs and I have no blood gems equipped