Dissolving Stitches!?

[caroless 18]

ok, so i am 20 days post op and i have what looks like dental floss, some parts with knots tied, coming out of my incisions.... what the heck!? help! it is 3 or 4 of my 7 incisions, and i am sure it is the dissolving sutures, but i thought they were supposed to be pretty deep? anyone had any experience with this?

[ForMyGirls 18]

I asked my husband who is a surgeon (ortho), and he recommend going to your surgeon to have them looked at/trimmed. He says there is a risk of infection. Hope that helps!

[lessofmeismore 1,405]

My incisions all had the thread/stitches hanging out. I showed my Dr at my post op visit and he said I could leave them or trim them. I just left mine and at about 2-3 weeks they fell off. No big deal

[caroless 18]

thanks ladies! it's wigging me out a bit!

[ozeedonkee 145]

I know with my last c-section there was a bit I just had to trim off, it was really irritating

[gettinMeBack 380]

I actually just had this experience and went to the surgeon about it and he just pulled them out and I'm fine now

[Getfitwithnikki 0]

Well I had my surgery Rout GNY in 2005-2006. About 3 years ago I started forming multiple abcess pockets in and beat my incisions. I was seeing something poke out, after an ER visit they removed a dissolvable stitch. Apparently my body doesn't produce the enzyme to break them down.... Fast forward three years to current day. In Jan I pulled out 3 more. This **** is painful, one abcess from 3 years ago hasn't closed. I'm tired of the leaking, painful stomach sutures. Without insurance and living out of state from where I had my surgery, I'm frustrated and exhausted..... I don't know what else I can do. I can't live this way.....

[GassyGurl 428]

Several weeks after hubbies cancer surgery, we noticed the same thing. Turns out there were internal dissolve stitches. that had dissolved inside, and a little teeny tiny end piece was barely poking thru his skin. They came right out with tweezers, because they weren't attached any more.

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[Perryman 5]

6 weeks after surgery. Most of these posts are old but i have the same thing. I keep cutting off more and more of the white dissolvable stitches. They are itchy and irritating. About a half inch will come out and i will cut it. I think the doctor put in 1 long stitch across the incision. The whole thing is red and bumpy and still bleeds. Don't really want to go to the doctor again, but it's driving me crazy. I remember my stitches after my tonsils were removed never dissolved either.