Permanent suture pain

[Chaunce1234]

quote mela414:

Having sutures removed Tuesday. Fingers crossed. Hope he gets them all. Not sure what this means hernia wise. I never even knew I had a hernia there. They only found it when fixing my femoral hernia. I never had pain there either. Now I have pain all the time. I will be happy once the sutures are gone and hopefully the pain goes away
mel

Did you have your follow up procedure? How are you doing? Any update?

[mela414]

Having sutures removed Tuesday. Fingers crossed. Hope he gets them all. Not sure what this means hernia wise. I never even knew I had a hernia there. They only found it when fixing my femoral hernia. I never had pain there either. Now I have pain all the time. I will be happy once the sutures are gone and hopefully the pain goes away
mel

[mela414]

Dr Towfigh

just an update. I went for the second opinion and he said it was a reaction the the sutures and to get them out. He also spoke highly of my surgeon and told
me to go back to him. He said he would also call him. So I asked why would he do that. Obviously they know each other and he assured me he was an excellent surgeon and would be able to go in and remove them. I told him I felt akward about it…. anyway I called my surgeon and we spoke on the phone. He’s al Amy’s been very receptive to what I’ve been saying and believes I have pain. I guess he just wanted to wait and see if it resolved itself.

He said he would go in and remove them. Of course he would not guarantee that all pain would be gone. I guess he just has to cover himself.

He said he’s had to go in and remove sutures before when they were attached to mesh but never had to go in and remove for an isolated incident like this but asured me could remove them.
he did send me to pain management to see if they could inject but that doctor also felt it was the sutures and needed to come out.

The pain has gotten worse. I cannot push down on the area without feeling pain and then provoking pain for a long time afterwards. It hurt when the doctor did the exam today pressing on it having me sit-up, turn and cough. He said at least it wasn’t a hernia reoccurrence.

I hope that once these are out I will feel better. Any thoughts.?

right now it feels tight when I stretch or use those abdominals or lean forward and then back.
Do you think the muscles healed too tightly or will
it loosen up once those sutures are out?

So tired of this pain.
Mel

[mela414]

Oops…phone froze. Anyway. I went to my appointment and reviews the scan. I showed him in the scan exactly where the pain was. I could see a dark area and pointed it to him. I also explained the pain and when I have it I had him touch the area which feels like a hard round marble. Actually in 2 places close to one another. He reviewed my chart and had a thought that it could be the permanent suture that he used. He didn’t use dissolvable sutures and it could be that I am reacting to the permanent suture and there could be some granulation tissue. He said that if it doesn’t resolve he could do a quick procedure and remove the suture and clean the area. There’s also a very small area of fat that formed there and he could remove that too. He suggested going to pain management to have them inject it with lido and a steroid. Maybe even do that a few times. The issue I’m having is that I’ve had steroid shots in the past that actually ate away at my fat and left a huge dent. Once in my buttocks that took 2 years to fill in and once in my face for a small cystic acne. I needed to have corrective cosmetic surgery for that! I don’t want a dent or defect near my belly button!
has anyone else had a reaction like this to a suture? The hernia and mesh feel ok and I don’t have the hernia pain that I had last summer!
It’s just this one area. It hurts every day. Its not going away.

Dr Towfigh what do you think! I contacted dr marc Jacob in NY and he gave me a referral to dr Jarrod Kaufman near me. Thats when I didn’t know it was this suture issue.

Thoughts anyone?
mel