graylayer02 (imported) wrote: Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:54 am Three weeks after. I went to the urologist and complained about the sutures. Most of them were dissolved internally enough that they were easy to remove; some of them weren't and he had to cut one or two out. Interestingly, the pattern was that when I had my surgery, I scabbed over the knots very quickly and in some cases skin grew over them, and then the scabs tried to hang on until the wound was entirely closed. The urologist left three in there saying that they'd 'fall out', though these were the three that had something in the way of their being taken out.
There were three that I had to get out at home since these were three which seemed pretty angry, like a piercing gone bad. One of the sutures reminded me of the Bill Cosby ingrown hair routine and I had to pull at it gently for 5 min; one had skin growing over it but I was able to get it; and one had a gigantic scab plug and required some perserverence. But now I'm sitting here with the biggest irritant being my sack again, and that's a nice relief.
I've had four surgeries on my stomach (one for appendicitis and two right away after that and the fourth about three years later to close the hernia) and I had stitches float out of my tummy that way, nearly the same as you describe it. It's ugly to go through but not unusual. I can still feel stitches inside my tummy wall. Apparently, they are there for good.
The skin will shrink in a few months, maybe a year. Give it time.
