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Does anyone know how long it takes for internal dissolvable stitches to go. I can feel a small lump at the top of my scar, my consultant says it is a knot where they tie off the internal stitches. If it hasn't gone in Six weeks he will remove under a local anaesthetic. I am massaging it and really hoping it will dissolve as don't really want to have another scar.
has anyone any experience of this
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hope4cure michelle69640
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I hope it devolves in time . All three of my THR I have had no issues with the stitches.
not that I have three legs Had two THR and one revision started out early in my Four- ties with OA.
give it time to heal takes about 6 months or more. The scar usually disappears after a few years. The surgeons have great techniques closing incisions. This last revision they used a system that palaces a negative vacuum over the wound using a batterY operated pocket box with a tube attached to the dressing. After 2 weeks the bandage and strips were removed and I could hardly see the incision. It was the revision the doc went in the old incision bilateral.
the wonders of new devices to help heal incision with less scar tissue.
we hippies have a lot to share and many more on this forum to help you out too!
Prace & Healing sent your way.
Hope 🌞xxx
madla39168 michelle69640
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Hug Madla
renee01952 michelle69640
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hi michelle,
I am sorry I can't help you here because I had staples - You have posted about your scar concern before, right ? was this "knot" the problem?
Keep massaging the spot and perhaps give it a little more time ... Hopefully it will dissolve as it is supposed to do
big warm hug
renee
michelle69640 renee01952
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was just hoping someone else had had this problem and it resolved itself.
thanks for reply
steve86482 michelle69640
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I demanded staples and a 10" scar. Been a year. I will never disappear
kimberley38758 michelle69640
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Hi Michelle,
I had dissolvable stitches. It's been 8 months now so its hard for me to pin point the exact week when the lumps finally went away. I can tell you that it was after the six week mark though. Everyone heals differently, so I would wait until 12 weeks before you make a decision to get it removed.
I remember being told to massage the scar each day. I used Vitamin E oil and had great results. The deep massages will help to break up the stitches and scar tissue.
Best wishes
erin1956 michelle69640
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Michelle:
You have a hematoma. I had the same thing although bigger. It went away on its own in about 2-3 weeks. It occurs from leakage from the interior suture (around the joint capsule,dissovlable stitches). There shouldn't be any reason to reopen the wound to take sutures out that are dissovalble. There won't be anything there to take out...
lyn1951 michelle69640
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I had a little lump also right at the end of my scar, disolvable stitches or so I was told.
At about 6 weeks it eventually felt like a stiff piece of linen thread sticking out of my skin just a fraction.
Went to my regular GP, he looked at it through his magnifing lens, and said i will see what happens here, and gave it a little tug, it came away, only just under the skin by about 1mm, held it up and said there it is.
I questioned what about disolveable stitches, he shrugged his shoulders, didn't really know why it had happened.
michelle69640 lyn1951
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