They're not going away!

My one little red sore has turned into three. Over the weekend I was rubbing it (instead of scratching) and the darn thing 'popped' and began to drain right there in the middle of the mall!

My surgeon says there's nothing I can do but wait it out. It's a stitch that my body is rejecting and trying to push out to the surface. I was told that since it's beginning to bleed its a good sign, meaning that the stitch is almost ready to come out.

:(  I don't like this.

Monica, I am sorry you are having to deal with this after having such great results.  It will get better soon, I promise.

Sherline

Thank you Sherline, you make a good point....considering how well I've done I really don't have a lot to complain about. I've been blessed with good health and now a flat tummy. :)

I wouldn't worry about it.  My body, through four rounds of plastic surgery, always "spit" stitches - everywhere and a lot of them.  Everything healed nicely. 

How did the scar heal? I'm wondering what these craters are going to look like when they heal.

Mine had little blisters that broke and healed rather quickly.  My scars show no sign of the stitches.  There was a little discoloration at first after the wound and blister healed but then everything healed properly.  I hope everything works out for you.  Good luck.

Monica, I found the pop-ooze phenomenon to be really disturbing.  But your surgery was recent, and it won't last forever.

Seems like it when it's happening, though, I know.

I'm now ten weeks post-op.  A 1-1/2" section of my pannus-flab removal came unhinged three weeks ago, and so did I!!!  My surgeon stitched it up immediately (5:30 on a Saturday evening), and it continued "leaking" ickiness until just today, when it stopped.  I was astonished, because it seems I've been leaking something from some place for the last two and a half months!!!  I still have a whole box of huge gauze rolls because I think I believed it would go on and on for months.


But it won't.  Ironically, "spitting" stitches means your surgeon used about three layers of suturing to hold you together -- a sign of quality work.  Some of the stitches absorb, and some reject.  Your body will be done with them in time.

my body rejected a stitch on my thigh he watched it for 3 weeks and I used warm compresses but he finally had to cut it out then it was healed immediately
good luck