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Infected stitch/5 weeks out

I woke up with some discomfort but nothing bad. I took a look and it is one of the small incisions which is now bright red. It also has pus. Obviously my doc isn't in and it is not worth going to the ER. Should I put some Neosporin on it until I speak with them on Monday? I am scheduled for my first fill on Wednesday.

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    Hi, Ladies. I just called the doc. Apparently this isn't uncommon with dissolvable stitches. When I go in Wednesday they may go under the skin to do some kind of extraction. Ewwww. But for now he said

  • I had the same thing at five weeks. I stated putting the neosporin on and it looked like it was better and then a week later is started oozing again. They are calling in some atibiotics for me today.

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Lucky me I'm a mom at home so I didn't lose any work days .

My dr told me that they can put back the port 6 weeks after it was removed but since Nyu didn't do any surgery because of hurricane sandy I had to wait a little longer ...

My friends also didn't know abaut my band I just told them I had hernia surgery second time I told them I had some complications & now what do I say now?

I had an issue with my incision a few weeks out. It turned out not to be infected but yet the dissovible stitches didn't fully dissolve. He went in and snipped out what didn't and all was good. It was pretty minor. Hopefully, yours is minor too.

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