I have 19 surface stitches (and 8 beneath the skin-absorb able) in my neck. I got them last Saturday night/ Sunday morning 7/8, 7/9. When can I pull 'em? They are bugging me because I can't shave around them and it itches like crazy.
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I have 19 surface stitches (and 8 beneath the skin-absorb able) in my neck. I got them last Saturday night/ Sunday morning 7/8, 7/9. When can I pull 'em? They are bugging me because I can't shave around them and it itches like crazy.
They usually itch. Didn't doctor say when? Doctors usually remove it unless they give you the stitches that dissolves.
Meh go for it, better scar, chicks dig scars.
Kidding, yeah doc should have said something on when you return to office to have them removed.
They said 10-14, and I'm getting impatient.
I don't need another medical bill to go along with it and they're easy to pull, just have never had an injury this deep/severe.
I'm gonna have a ginormious scar anyway. Just gonna say that I escaped from the cartels when they were trying to behead me. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by 02ducky
Leave them in as directed. Wound dehiscence is not good. Most places do not charge to remove sutures they put in.Quote:
Originally Posted by 00tec
Surface stitches I always cut with a clipper and pulled them out with tweezers.You do probably need to wait until it's time though. [Beer]
Post a picture of the sutures/wound. Only way to be sure.
But 10 days is a tiny bit early usually - unless you have been coating it in zinc and taking care of it extremely well.
Curiosity killed the cat, how the hell did you end up with some many stitches?
I would leave them. the last thing you want is for it to split back open and you end up getting a bigger scar or having to pay more medical bills
Yeah, I'd leave'em too.
I went out to play in the rain/mud with my buddy's ATV. I didn't take into account that the rain severely reduced my visibility and I didn't see what was coming. I have made that turn before, but the rain made my range too short.Quote:
Originally Posted by 02ducky
In short:
I took this:
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...-04-39_570.jpg
Went THROUGH this (post repair pic):
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...ejpeg952_3.jpg
And did this (graphic):
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...ejpeg952_2.jpg
Here's the finished product:
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...Untitled-1.jpg
If I wasn't so 'tactically padded' I'd be dead.
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Originally Posted by 00tec
Removal should be part of the original service. I usually yank mine after 15 days. Only after coating the stitches with some vitamin E lotion for a few days. I have some extra surgical scissors for a clean cut if needed.
Yup, leave 'em in for 14 days and not just due to scarring issues.
Remove them too early and you run serious risks. This increases with a wound to the neck. Lots of straight flow to the brain & heart which are more susceptible to infection,etc. than most other tissue/organs. The consequences can easily become deadly.
Now, after 14 days, if the wound is healing well, you should have no problems removing them yourself if you can see what your doing.
Holy shit dude, you are lucky to be alive for sure
Yeah, I didn't cut anything that important, and it's healing well.Quote:
Originally Posted by theGinsue
What they said, 2 weeks absolute minimum. And the Dr. (or nurse) should remove them as part of the original service, it's a follow-up visit. Dont fawk around in the interest of being manly, that's how you got in this fix in the first place, right?
Good god man, that's looks it hurt just a little bit. Glad you are okay and nothing major happend.
Dang you got lucky you didn't cut your jugular vein or carotid artery.
5mm.Quote:
Originally Posted by deagler
Thanks. And suprisingly it didn't hurt. Felt like a pinch or getting a shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by 02ducky
Damn that shits knarly bro! Your gonna have the high card in alot of scar contests!
Holy crap!!! Seriously lucky bro!
Been through a few strands on sleds before. No fun. But nothing close to that injury!
I'd go back in an have them stitch it up one more time for good measure! [ROFL1]
Glad you are ok!! [Beer]
Holy shitballz dude! Thats not a flesh wound...
WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUCCCCC........!?!! seriously, though, you gotta make up some crazy ass knife fighting story to go with that one. haha! You have any daughters? You need one, now! Oh the fun you could have!
Ive never heard of an office charging to remove the sutures.
Best to go back to the original office, have them give it all a lookover...
Doc might be missing a wedding ring or something.
Ooooh, no. Kids are evil, the world's most widespread STD... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by josh7328
I do have a niece and significantly younger sisters though.
That's my gold stash for SHTF :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Byte Stryke
haha he had to use it to stop the jugular squirts. now it's time to get it back! [ROFL1]Quote:
Originally Posted by Byte Stryke
Jesus fuck.
That's about as close to a Colombian Necktie as possible. Damn, man.
DUDE!!! You seriously need to leave those in for a few weeks. I have had roughly a 100 plus stitches in my lifetime and that my friend is a doozy of a wound. Yes they itch like crazy what I found to help was to coat then with a antibiotic to keep them wet. That depends on the type of sutures though. Glad to hear you are o.k.
Is that really the place where you want to risk it opening up again because you got impatient and decided to rip them out one week into a 3 month recommended stay??
No, in that case, but that's not the case. I got these installed on the 8th and my 'recommended stay' is 10-14 days. Since I'm about to be at the 10 day stamp, I would LIKE them out, but not entirely necessary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ridge
90 days is a helluva lot longer than 14.... Where did you get 3 months?
Hell with that wound I'd leave em in for 90 days...wouldn't want my head flopping off my neck!!!
You're lucky to be here dude..
Thought I'd read in an earlier post you were due to get them out in October.Quote:
Originally Posted by 00tec
Agreed... Plus no co-pay for the office visit.Quote:
Originally Posted by StagLefty
yupp, let them remove them but I always go back and check myself to see if they left any little parts, it has happened to me several times and it always is real sore and get infected when they leave some.
Fuck the co-pay or the charge for the office visit. With a neck wound like that I would not take any chances on taking them out myself...
Let the Doc take care of you on this one.
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Originally Posted by 00tec
HOLY SHIT...... yeah leave those bitches in... holy crap bro.. glad youre still around...
I usually wait at least 10 days. I have had well over 100 stitches in my lifetime
and I can only recall 2 times I went back to the doc to have them removed.
Rest of the time I have done it myself. 10-14 days is usually the benchmark.
If it looks as though the skin is growing back onver them, then take em out.