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Wed, 11/04/2009 - 18:27
Is this supposed to come out?
So I have a fishing string hanging from my neck, and while holding my 4 month old daughter, she grabbed the string and slightly pulled on it. It didn't exactly hurt, but I noticed that now the string is WAY longer on the side she pulled it then before. So I'm wonderin what the hell I am supposed to do with this? It's only on one side, I don't even notice it on the other side. I'm a little nervous, and I don't need my stitches opening up, but I don't want to go back to the doctor because everything has cost me 67,500. Got to cut corners somewhere! Anyone else know the solution to this problem??
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ACDF @ c-5 c-6 10/15/2009
Mother of 6 year old and 3 month old
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It sounds like a stitch but you should call the doctor and ask. Followup visits should not cost you anything.
Cervical stenosis and myelopathy (most symptoms permanant), DDD, OA, 16 surgeries to date (including 3 level cervical laminectomy, bilateral knee replacements, A-C joint resections in both shoulders), 19 MRI's, and many many many cortisone shots and ESI's
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I know its the stitch, but I'm just wondering if there is anything I should do now since its 737pm and the doctors office is closed.
ACDF @ c-5 c-6 10/15/2009
Mother of 6 year old and 3 month old
Ok the part that was hanging out just came out. But it's no where near long enought to be the lenght of my cut. So now I have to worry about part of it in my neck. How in the hell are they supposed to get it out?
ACDF @ c-5 c-6 10/15/2009
Mother of 6 year old and 3 month old
The doctors office has an answering service. Call and have the doctor call you back. It will hopefully be nothing or as simple as putting a bandaid over it but it is worth the phone call. I assume its not bleeding.
Cervical stenosis and myelopathy (most symptoms permanant), DDD, OA, 16 surgeries to date (including 3 level cervical laminectomy, bilateral knee replacements, A-C joint resections in both shoulders), 19 MRI's, and many many many cortisone shots and ESI's
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thankfully no its not bleeding! omg that would be so gross
ACDF @ c-5 c-6 10/15/2009
Mother of 6 year old and 3 month old
the inside stitches are probably the kind that just disappear on their own over time, theyre absorbed into the body. As far as the outside string, the doctor told me I could just trim those down after awhile. When I had my neck done thats the kind they used anyway.
40 year old married mother of two children ages 20 and 18.
Muscle spasms started after getting up from sitting position in '07, cervical herniation, stenosis and bone spurs showed up on MRI resulting in emergency cervical fusion of C5-C6(sept. 07).
Pain continued in middle/lower back. MRIs showed herniated disc in lumbar area, stenosis, and fatty tissue in the spinal canal causing spinal cord to be pushed to the left.
Tried heat/cold therapy, PT, facet joint injection,as well as facet joint injection, epidurals/injections, steriods, Tens Unit, Ultrasound therapy, Nerve blocks and Various pain meds.
After exhausting all other treatments and having a discography had a spinal fusion L5-S1 with instrumentation (cage, 2 rods, screws, plastic spacer, bone grafts (made from my own bone ) on June 24th, 2008. Both growth stimulator used. Ct-Scan at 13 months showed fusion on one side and non-fusion on the other. Nerve block injections tried again for pain with no luck. Screw loosening and movement seen in the bone. Arthritis and DDD now in hips as well as spine.
Medications have been chaged to Lyrica twice a day, Morphine twice a day, muscle relaxers tid and Percocet for breakthrough pain.
Having alot of pain in the left side of my hip and lower back where there was a non-fusion. Also now have started having quite alot of pain in my legs down to the knees.
Nerve damage showing as Numbness and tingling in the hands and feet which surgeon says will probably never go away.
Have buldging disk at T-9. Physical therapy with ultrasound and hot packs. Injection to numb the nerve root.
Third surgery on October 22nd, was suppose to be an exploratory surgery and remove hardware. Turns out I had a bone shelf grow into spinal canal which had to be removed and the fusion of 08 had to be redone and packed with more bone and bigger rods and screws.
Still on Morphine 2X's a day, percocet @ 4 hours for b/t pain, and a muscle relaxer when needed.
Sounds nothing more than a inside stitch. I had a few of those and went to doctor they got a sterile kit out that cost hmmm $50 and cut it. I said i could have done that with my scissors and they said well you didn't. Those stitches usually disolve over time but sometimes they come through before the absorb in the body. As long as the incision not open up i would say you are good to go. If your still nervous go to drug store and get a few steri strips just to be safe.
When I had my ulnar nerve release last year, I felt something kind of poking out, but as it was on my elbow I couldn't get a good look at it. I went to the doc & he said it was the tail end of an inside stitch that had just come out a bit, and not to worry about it, it could be snipped off. The part of the stitch inside was either still holding things together, or had been absorbed already.
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