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Scar Management for anyone finding them taking a long time to heal, red, bumpy, itchy...
Hey All, I just wanted to say in the past I haven't really worried about my scars from surgeries, however since doing my Diep Flap recon in February and subsequent revision surgery in July, I had m...
My major surgery scars are ok, but the minor ones from my oophorectomy and portacath have given me the shits. Disolvable stitches. Humph. They don't.
6 weeks after getting my port out I still have an angry itchy spot that regularly coughs up a bit of pus and a chunk of suture. My GP and BC Nurse have both had a go at excavating it to dig out the offending stitches and the surgeon is playing hard to get. Really annoying and the small scars on my belly are dark and lumpy and raised. I reckon there is still bits of stitch sitting inside those scars too. When I had the port removed I said I'd rather have regular sutures which I knew would be taken out. The look on the surgeons face...no, wouldn't do it. Humph.
6 weeks after getting my port out I still have an angry itchy spot that regularly coughs up a bit of pus and a chunk of suture. My GP and BC Nurse have both had a go at excavating it to dig out the offending stitches and the surgeon is playing hard to get. Really annoying and the small scars on my belly are dark and lumpy and raised. I reckon there is still bits of stitch sitting inside those scars too. When I had the port removed I said I'd rather have regular sutures which I knew would be taken out. The look on the surgeons face...no, wouldn't do it. Humph.