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30 days - front and back view
Undisolved stitches finally splitting
Something kinda weird happened tonight.
I started massaging my scars today as my PS told me to do and there was a particular spot that was bulbed out and raised a little more than the rest of my scar so I applied a little more pressure to that spot to try and flatten it a little. While I was doing that I felt a really odd POP under my skin.
I can only describe it as being close to the sensation you get if you have a large zit that you pop. Well I immediately inspected that spot, totally convinced that I had an infection I didn't know about and that I had just popped a puss filled sac. But there was nothing there at all! No discharge and No change!
So I gently continue my massage on the other arm and it happened again. This time I realized that it was actually my dissolvable stitches that are underneath my skin and they are just splitting as I apply pressure. It's been a month, so they are really fragile and what has not dissolved I was able to break apart with massage.
It's normal but it's definitely a shocking sensation when you aren't expecting it!
Hopefully this will help prepare anyone planning on having this surgery.
I started massaging my scars today as my PS told me to do and there was a particular spot that was bulbed out and raised a little more than the rest of my scar so I applied a little more pressure to that spot to try and flatten it a little. While I was doing that I felt a really odd POP under my skin.
I can only describe it as being close to the sensation you get if you have a large zit that you pop. Well I immediately inspected that spot, totally convinced that I had an infection I didn't know about and that I had just popped a puss filled sac. But there was nothing there at all! No discharge and No change!
So I gently continue my massage on the other arm and it happened again. This time I realized that it was actually my dissolvable stitches that are underneath my skin and they are just splitting as I apply pressure. It's been a month, so they are really fragile and what has not dissolved I was able to break apart with massage.
It's normal but it's definitely a shocking sensation when you aren't expecting it!
Hopefully this will help prepare anyone planning on having this surgery.
30 days
Had my 1 month post op appointment with my surgeon. She says everything is looking good and I'm healing very well.
I no longer need to wear the compression top, and I am SO GLAD because I hated hand washing that thing daily.
She prescribed me an antibiotic ointment to put on the spot that tore a bit in my left arm pit...she said that's the most common place in a brachioplasty to have stitches rip, because it gets damp from sweat...so until that heals no deodorant for me.
I am to continue putting on my scar cream 2x daily and also start to massage my scars.
I will see her again in 3 months.
I no longer need to wear the compression top, and I am SO GLAD because I hated hand washing that thing daily.
She prescribed me an antibiotic ointment to put on the spot that tore a bit in my left arm pit...she said that's the most common place in a brachioplasty to have stitches rip, because it gets damp from sweat...so until that heals no deodorant for me.
I am to continue putting on my scar cream 2x daily and also start to massage my scars.
I will see her again in 3 months.
Provider Review
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
8106 N. May Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma