stitches in my crotch...

I still have them! and they busted. the second time I told the doctor not to worry about restitching them back up. but now I see down there a string and I thought they were supposed to dissolve? does it take longer than a month or something? I'm thinking about calling my doctor. just wanted to know what you guys thought...

 

Mine dissolved after two weeks (all three times i had them). I would call and ask what is up. Seems really sadistic to use ones that would need to be removed!

 

oh shitty! my doctor told me mine are the dissolving ones. I wonder if that's the reason I have a yeast infection...

 

My mom said hers dissolved within 1.5-2 weeks.
You might want to call and check on that.

 

mine didn't dissolve until three weeks postpartum...

 

WHY on god's green earth would you want to see a photo of that!!!???

Anywho, I never even noticed mine...honestly....I couldn't see them....I was apparently given the dissolving ones, too.
I'd really go back to the doctor and get him to restitch you.

 

Mine didn't fallout until AFTER my 5 week postpartum checkup. My doc checked them and said they were fine. He actually asked me if I wante dhim to pull them out!!!! I was like "would you pull stitched out of your penis?? Then, no I'll wait for them to fall out on their own" My doc is normally great, then he says dumb stuff like that..............

 

I don't think it would cause yeast, but you could get a bacterial infection. See the doc, and they will be able to do something. (Brighid correct me if I am wrong.) Stitches dissolve at different rates, depending on the person, how they were put in ect. But hanging stitches can work as a wick for bacteria. Please see your doc, and if she won't do anything, see someone else. Even a walk in clinic will usually remove the stitches which refuse to dissapear.

 

I had one stitch after my second child was born, and removed it myself when it didn't dissolve fast enough. The repair bothered me more than the "tear" did. I don't think it was really a tear, though, more like an open stretch mark more than anything else. My midwife laughed when I told her, and said to me "why does that not suprise me?" My ob said almost exactly the same thing when I saw him post partum.

 

WHAT are you talking about? I never saw any posts on this thread from insanejester??

ohh...I see. his posts got removed

 

He was also sent to his room and I took the car keys.

 

haha.

well I just realized that I had my stitches redone only about two weeks ago! so I'm not so freaked out anymore...

 

yeah, around two weeks it feels like they will never, ever go away. Everything feels poked, and sore, and tired. i cried for weeks (months?) because i thought my doc stitched me up wrong to be mean, and i would never feel right. Then one day, out of nowhere, i did feel like me again (or close enough to it!).

Looking back i think it took forever because i had two other episiotomies (with tears) before, and though this one was just a really ugly tear, i imagine there must have been scar tissue or something involved.

So anyway, you're at the point where you're just really sick of worrying about it, but it really will be better before you know it

 

You know Ryver, I didn't tear but, I felt FUNKY for a good few months! It was this weird throbbing stretched out feeling around my clit. Not pain exactly, just weird. I thought it would never go away too and like you I realized one day that it felt better. At least I didn't havde to deal with a tear! Bless all you mamas!

 

hey I think I feel that, too! at first I was thinkin maybe it was an infection, but I don't think so. to you does it feel almost like a muscle squeezing together? now I notice I only feel it sometimes after I pee. it's definitely NOT an infection, though. it feels like it's underneath the skin, in the tissue right under...I don't know...does anyone else understand?

also, where I had the stitching, the skin feels hard, but I think that's just a part of the healing process. it's getting softer now. I look at it and I swear it looks like they sewed me up smaller than I was before...???you know, like the hole...

 

Sounds alot like what I had! I reckon it's just your whiz got stretched and it'll take some time for it to go back to the way it was. Maybe they DID sew you up smaller! I've heard they do that. Dunno if it's true or not!

 

yeah. I think the feeling in my crotch is maybe from the actual pushing because you know they tell you to push from your butt, but to me it felt like I was pushing from the front until her head came a little through and I actual concentrated on pushing from the back to get her out. i noticed it was two different feelings. so I think probably it's the muscles in my crotch being kinda sore because they were NEVER used like that before.

im kinda scared that the next time I have sex, the tear will like bust open again..

 

hummm...i wonder if that's the same thing I got....I had this horrible pain right around the same area and yeah, it felt like it was under tissue or something. It almost felt like someone was just pushing down really hard from the inside. Actually my OB said it was pressure from Leane and gave me some tylenol 3 with kodene and it still never helped....I knew it wasn't her, either, cuz I continued to have the same pain afterwards and I still get it during my period. I still have no clue at all what it is....

 

hmm...I just hope it's not something we should be seriously concerned with... mine seems to be disappearing slowly, though.

 

me too...unfortunetaly (sp?), all the docs at the office I go to are males and so was my OB...it's really frustrating to describe where the pain is coming from and what it feels like to a man who really has no clue.