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Hello Everyone,

Underneath all four of my incisions are bumps. Under my upper-most incision there is one "large" bump (It isn't very big, but it's the biggest of the four). Are these bumps the internal stitches, the ones in my abdominal muscle? It bothers me not knowing what they are. I hope they're the internal stitches and will dissolve soon! I am 3 weeks post-op tomorrow. Any idea when these internal stitches should dissolve?

Thanks!

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I think so Sara. I am three weeks out and still have a couple of pea size bumps on some of my incisions. I saw something on one of my incisions I thought was a dry piece of skin. Turns out it is a stitch and it doesn't want to let go! :D Looked at another incision and same thing. Just gonna leave them alone, because it must not have dissolved all the way inside yet. No worries, girl.

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Hey girls- I have had several surgeries- the bumps- are scar tissue forming- under several of my incisions there is still bumps after a few years now- the only time I had a stitch hang out like you described I had to go back in and get it surgically removed- that is your body rejecting an internal stitch and it works its way out of your body- might have it looked at- - but the bumps will take a long time to go away- you wont notice them much later on -

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