Everybody just hold on a minute here... If I'm going to Mexico to get banded, that means they're gonna have to give me some stitches and/or staples, right? Well who the heck is gonna remove them? Do I have to fly back to Mexico?

Rumbaut uses dissolving stitches. All you do is take off the bandaids (steri-strips or surgi-strips) a few days later. I think Kuri has you remove your own, and a really, really high percentage of those patients do just fine. :cheeky The others usually ask for help from a nurse or PCP back home. The staples????

I never saw any stitches on mine - just steri-strips. If there were any stitches, they were below the surface and dissolving.

Originally posted by GeezerSue

Rumbaut uses dissolving stitches. All you do is take off the bandaids (steri-strips or surgi-strips) a few days later.

Thats the way it was with my wife.

I think Kuri has you remove your own, and a really, really high percentage of those patients do just fine.

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Well, if I have to remove my own, I'll have my creepy friend Mary do it. She loves that kinda thing! But she's really not creepy : )

DeLarla, you're a funny one!!

I have a creepy friend, too. She's the girl who does my nails. She just loves a good, oozing pustule!!

I'll remove anyone's staples or stitches. Come on up to where i live and i'll get out me hacksaw,pliers,cutting torch or just hook a chain to the back of my truck and pull them right out.

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lol, BigDog!

It's nice to know you've got the tools to get the job done! :mad:

My family has always been into that primate 'grooming' thing, so I'm glad I didn't have to have any stitches/staples removed. They might of hurt themselves fighting over who got to do it... lol

Thanks for the offer, Big Dog, but I have a husband with the same tools... let's not give him any ideas! I just had carpal tunnel surgery and cried when they took the stitches out because I'm only 41 years old. It didn't hurt but when they took the bandages off I looked like Frankenstein and it freaked me out. All green & yellow & swollen. They almost had to sedate me. The thought of my skin being sewn together like freaks me out man!