When I lay on my back I feel that at one of my incision sites and there's a knot. Is this normal?

If you mean a knot in the stitch, yes. Mine were just under the skin with translucent absorbable material that kinda looked like fishing line.

If you mean something else, please describe it more.

Well they used glue to close my incisions so I don't have any stitches, but yes it's just right where the stitches would be. Like I press down on it with my hand and it feel like a knot where the incision was and slightly around it.

There is probably sutures inside, and glue holding the skin closed.

I have the same knot feeling, and my Dr said it's scar tissue.

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My doctor said that it will go away with time. It is irritated a lot and feels like a hard ball in the middle of my stomach. I can cup my hand over it. The stitch line burns and itches quite a bit. I am four months and 2 weeks post-op. Is anyone else having trouble?

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Mine burned too when pressure was applied. But it was small, the size of a pea. My Pcp said totally normal and scar tissue should take a year to heal. That being said, mine is still hard (but not as hard) at 4 weeks, but doesn't bother me any more.

10 hours ago, MochaKelly said:

My doctor said that it will go away with time. It is irritated a lot and feels like a hard ball in the middle of my stomach. I can cup my hand over it. The stitch line burns and itches quite a bit. I am four months and 2 weeks post-op. Is anyone else having trouble?

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Cup your hand over it? Like it's half a baseball? Has your surgeon seen it lately? That sounds really... not right.

More like a small ball that a kid would play with. I showed it to him on my last visit. He stated that it should go down, if not I may have a hernia but it would be too soon in my recovery to operate, as I am only four months post-op.

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I had the same thing. I was told it was swollen scar tissue and it would go away. It did, my incision lines are all completely flat.

Could be hematoma.

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Thanks sullie