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11-05-2005, 02:47 PM | #1 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Effingham, Illinois
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| stitches Lexy was spayed about two months ago and the vet used internal stitches. Her incision is is still hard. You can feel the stitches inside. Is this normal? Will they eventually dissolve all the way. They don't bother her at all, but I hate the way the feel when I'm kissing or petting her tummy! Yeeesssssss... I kiss her tummy!
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11-05-2005, 02:50 PM | #2 |
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| Jewels was spayed about three months ago and hers have dissolved. They have been gone for some time now.
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11-05-2005, 02:52 PM | #3 |
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| Did they feel hard before they dissolved? I think I'm going to call the vet Monday and ask if they shouldn't be gone by now.
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11-05-2005, 02:55 PM | #4 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| Yes I remember when the incision was still hard. I think they should have been gone by now.
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11-05-2005, 02:59 PM | #5 |
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| Sophie was spayed almost six months ago and I can still feel hers. |
11-05-2005, 03:40 PM | #6 |
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| Stitches Some vets use non-dissolving stitches inside. I would ask. |
11-05-2005, 04:01 PM | #7 |
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| I would call the vet and ask. |
11-05-2005, 06:48 PM | #8 | |
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11-05-2005, 06:56 PM | #9 |
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| My husband had back surgery back in May and at the site his felt like that. When we went to the doctor for his check up I asked about it and he said it was scar tissue not the stiches. I could have swore it was the stiches. It has now turned into an indention along the scar. So I guess it was swollen under there. I don't know if this helps you at all. I do know the feeling you are talking about. Good luck to you! |
11-07-2005, 06:59 AM | #10 |
Gina, (Lexi's Mommy) Donating Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: LONG ISLAND,NY
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| dont worry about the hardness, its just scar tissue, i had an operation and i can feel the same thing...the stitches do dissolve but the hardness stays..
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11-07-2005, 07:20 AM | #11 |
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| Trixie was spayed in September. She had outside stitches, and I can still feel some harder skin underneath her scar
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11-07-2005, 10:15 AM | #12 |
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| Yes, Mellie had internal stiches and I did notice that one had not disolved and she had a small lump ( like a little pimple or mole). I brought her to the vet and he said that scar tissue formed around the stitch. That it would be fine and the surgery to remove the scar tissue would be worse than the scar tissue itself and he will just keep and eye on it during her well visits.
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