WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for July, 2007: LAPAROSCOPY: laparoscopy and sutures

LAPAROSCOPY: laparoscopy and sutures

From: Sarabear (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:06:47 -0500 (CDT)

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I had a lap on 7/3 that was normal. However, I has a tiny infection in the belly button wound that was being cleared up by neopsporin. My obgyn examined it & said it did look a tiny bit infected and to keep doing what I was doing. However, I noticed something the day that I took the opsite bandage off. It looked like thread or a piece of skin was in the middle of the incision. Longer than usual. I tried to take it off with tweezers & felt it pulling something. I thought it could be possibly a suture. The incision has closed around this thing. Now it looks like a suture that was knotted beneath the incision (when I took the opsite dressing off, it looked kind of open for the outer skin & not on the inside - hope that makes sense). It's been a month. It has not gone away. The incision has closed around it (it's not open, but this thing is in the middle of the scar line on it). I can't pull it out with tweezers because it bleeds when I do that and it feels attached to something. It is as thin & as strong as suture material. The only reason I havn't said it is definitely a suture is because it is white & not black. It also looks filamented/frayed today. Could this be a suture? I can't get to it with regular scissors to cut it and it is driving me crazy. If I leave it alone will it desolve? At this point, I am thinking it is not skin (it should have fallen off by now). I could not break it off. All of this leads me to think it is an undissolved suture (but white not black). Should I call my obgyn's office and ask if there was a suture placed in the belly button (is it common to close it on the inside and not the outside of it?). I would hate to think that it wasn't a suture and then have a nurse die laughing because of my ignorance (& YES he does have a nurse that will do that. She happens to answer the nurse line, which I rarely call.). If it is a suture, should I get an appt to see him & have it cut, removed, whatever. It is right in the middle of the incision/scar line & is attached to the scar line/incision now.

This has been irritating me since day 2 postop but I forgot to ask at my postop appt. At that appt (2 weeks ago), the incision was still open because of me picking up my 2 year old and bending. It has closed with this thing in the middle of it. It is very obvious that something is in the middle of the incision.

Please don't laugh. I am embarassed to be asking this. I read somewhere that dissolvable sutures won't dissolve if they are not in tissue.

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