When to pull stitches?

[MileHighOutlaw]

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.

[Ridge]

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??

[00tec]

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.

90 days is a helluva lot longer than 14.... Where did you get 3 months?

[wyome]

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..

[Ridge]

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.

90 days is a helluva lot longer than 14.... Where did you get 3 months?

Thought I'd read in an earlier post you were due to get them out in October.

[waxthis]

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.

Agreed... Plus no co-pay for the office visit.

[GhostRider]

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.

[stenz]

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.

[Chad4000]

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.

In short:

I took this:


Went THROUGH this (post repair pic):


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.

HOLY SHIT...... yeah leave those bitches in... holy crap bro.. glad youre still around...

[DD977GM2]

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.