Hey everyone- I'm 5 days post op, and I have a question about on of my sites. I have 1 long suture coming out of my skin outside of either side of the insicion for The port site, which was glued and steri-stripped, not stitched. There is about 1.5 inches of suture material coming out of my skin, not the insicion, on each side of the insicion, and each end is taped into the 2 top steri strips, which are now coming off! The stitch going inside of me is attatched to only the top steri strip. It is made of a different material than the sutured sites, so I am assuming these are absorbable stitches, but they are still hanging out of me, unknotted. WHat should I do so they don't tear out?:cursing:

I had that when I had my knee surgery except at each end was a knot, when I went back in post op, they pulled cut one knot and pulle the string out from the other end of the incision. It felt gross. I guess it is some type of stitch under the skin. When I had my band surgery, I had some clear type of string coming out of the end of the incision, I ended up clipping it close to my skin and eventually it just dissolved. So, who knows which kind you have. Not so much help was I? sorry. . .

wow.. I just had the glue... I would call the Dr's office because u don't want to risk any infection... that would be bad....

I had a piece of suture out of my port incision, I trimmed it as close to the skin, and it disappeared over the next week. Don't pull on it. And as always call your doctor if you're not sure.

Tess

My stitches did that when i had my wisdom teeth cut out and when I had my gallbladder cut out...they eventually just dissolved. I'd call to find out though. I did :cursing:

Do you have the Realize band? If so, I had the same kind of sutures coming out on both ends of my port incision. Don't trim it yourself, just keep it down with a band-aid if your steri-strips have fallen off and let the doctor remove it at your two week follow up. Apparently it has something to do with helping anchoring in the port after it's sewn up.