I am a bit over 3 weeks post op and I made a strange discovery today. One of my internal stitches is sticking out of my port incision about 1/8 of an inch. It appears that my incision is actually healing around it.

I had not noticed this prior to today because I had scabbing and lots of skin glue. Now that most of the scabbing is gone and all of the skin glue has peeled off I realized it.

I am calling the surgeons office in the morning to make them aware. Anyone have any thoughts as to what they will do about it or how big of a deal this is?

I had the ends of two different stitched hanging out (5 incisions)

I waited about till about three weeks out and plucked them pretty easily with tweezers

my only advice is for you to get a hold of your surgeon. You don't want to risk having an infection. I hope everything is okay, keep us posted.

~DDDooonnnn'tttt PULL the StTTriinggg!. I did and it got infected; I am treating it to Hydrogen Peroxide 10 minutes /3X a day, this seems to be drying it up and healing it. I would call your doctor.

I had the same thing and at my first fill the PA said I could clip them with fingernail clippers. I would still call your Dr. though to see what they would like to do.

I had them and when all the scabs finally fell off (it took about 6 weeks) the stitches were attached to the scab so they fell off by themselves.