I had a TT done and 12 years ago and have always felt internal pulling and itching. Within the last few years, the sutures are coming to surface and pushing themselves out of my skin. I have had 2 surgically removed already and a third has surfaced and is getting infected. The surgery to remove these has left me with dimple like scars. It currently looks like I have 3 different belly buttons on my abdomen and they just keep on coming, one by one. I dont know why this is occurring and what to do
I had a tummy tuck muscle repair 5 weeks ago.At 3 weeks post op my incision in this area was splitting stitches. The nurse remove around 5 stitches in this area.It started out as one little hole from her digging around.My surgeon said do wet to dry dressing every 4 hours but now I have two holes it seems wet to dry is not helping.How would you handle the situation. Are the wet to dry really doing any good.
Im dressing wounds wet to dry twice a day for 5 days and the wound separation continues to enlarge. Also have at least a 1 inch diameter hole under left breast after reduction. Can the wound be closed with a second surgery?
I had an FDL on 30th Oct. Naval wasnt receiving enough oxygen and became infected.Metronidazole 500mg x 3 and Co-Amoxiclav 500+125mg x 3 a day. Op to remove naval on 5th Nov. Since been flushing the drain hole with saline,Then packing with iodine soaked swab each day.Worried as when I remove the swab it has grey pus, the hole isnt getting smaller, been on antibiotics 3 weeks. Whats going to happen when I finish them? Will the hole close itself or more surgery? Grateful for any opinions!
I have an open wound due to spitting stitches with no infection. The PS dug out the stitch leaving me with a deep hole. Is it common? Could it keep opening bigger? He says it's not infected just follow up in 2 weeks.
Can this resolve on it's own or will I have to get it removed? I seen my doctor yesterday and he clipped a small one that was sticking above my suture line in another location and the next day my skin was closed. However we didn't see this one or it just poked through today and it's causing a small hole. I'm just concerned it's going to get bigger before I see him in 3 weeks. I'm 4 weeks post op tummy tuck.
I am almost 4 weeks post op TT and lipo a few days ago I had what looked like a pimple along the incision line, it has now developed into a small hole about 5mm big and there's yellowish fluid. It's not sore but I think it smells when I took the surgical tape off (it came away from the wound so I replaced). I have hay-fever at the moment, something I don't normally suffer from so not sure if what I think smelling is real or not. Overall I absolutely love my new shape and have recovered well.