Stitches>popped>pulled???

[LeighDee 0]

Hey guys

just wondering if anyone has had any issues with their internal stitches like the port's and maybe your stomach's holding the band in place

here's the best description I can come up with right now:

• popped (to the ER or DR):biggrin:
  

or

• pulled or stretched (pitiful yelping pain noise here but after a few minutes it's ok (it may say Hi every now and then)..:frown:
  

I am active not by choice on somethings...IE: stairs of our split level which I have learned to walk down sideways because engaging my abs in anyway is like stabbing a semi hot butter knife into my port side..((OMG port side..left side on me..sailors retort?))

But am actively committed to some like : walking my treadmill and not just because of the lovely flatulence most of us have been graced with..

anyway does anyone have or had any inny stitches issues???

BTW on my outy incisions it was glued and steri-striped and they are prefect :biggrin2:

[Guest Leslie2Lose]

I had the popped and pulled on mine. The week following surgery it felt like my shoulder/breast muscle was ripped out one night during my sleep. My stitches somehow came out/loose and my port flipped over. Oh, my port is in my left shoulder/breast area. It hurt like an SOB. The doctor couldn't tell me what went wrong, but we are addressing it. I'm having it corrected tomorrow (whoohoo!). I'm so ready! I've heard that is is not a common occurance. Sometimes things just go wrong.

[gilliebean 1]

this happened to me too the best my doctor and i figured is that i pulled the muscle the port is attached to. It doesn't hurt like that any more and couple weeks later it finally went away.

[LeighDee 0]

Congratz Leslie

it's great that you are getting it fixed

I know you're ready to go

and Gillie

yea I think I might have just pulled it..

thanks for your responses guys

Edited June 13, 2008 by LeighDee

[aubrie 6]

I "spit" sutures for several weeks after surgery. The little ends would poke out. It freaked me out. the doc clipped and removed a couple, but he said to just leave them alone they would fall out on their own. Fine and dandy, but I had to cover them so they didn't catch on my clothes. I'm allergic to adhesive in bandages, so this was not pleasant. I had to request paper tape in the hospital.

[coolrn2000 2]

Hello everyone. I never had any of those feelings of pain. But, when I went for my first and only fill, it was done in radiology.

Now get this. I had a Tummy Tuck on 5/28 and at my post op appt, I mentioned that my port had moved about 3-4 inches. And then found out my port was not even attached to anything !!! How does that happen ?? What if I had not had any surgery ?? I think I blame my bariatric surgeon, but who knows ???