One more thing,about stitches

I have a stitch that I can feel and see on my belly button.Does anyone know if this will disolve on it's on?Thanks Heather

Hi,
Most of the sutures docs are using seem to dissolve on their own these days. All it would take is a quick phone call to them to see when they should dissolve or be removed.
I had "tails" of stitches that should have dissolved on their own, but they took forever. The doc offered to remove them so they wouldn't catch on clothes and be so annoying.
Good luck with this!

The office is closed for today they stop taking calls at 345 I'll call them tomorrow.Thanks Heather

I had at least one stitch on each of my three little incisions that didn't dissolve right away. I could see and feel these, and they took forever to go away, but they finally did. It seemed as soon as I ignored them, and quit looking at them, they went away!

My belly button stitch dissolved but did so 'last'. It was very tempting at about 3 weeks to give it a tug but I restrained (every now and then I am able to control myself !)

My other stitches dissolved at about 3 weeks, the belly button one was 7 to 10 days later.

Julie

Same here ...my belly button stitch seemed to take forever to dissolve. They tried to do my hysterectomy thru lap first before "converting"