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CP: Stitches Vs Staples
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CP: Stitches v Staples[Poll]
12/13/10 BFP
12/23/10 Miscarriage
3/6/11 BFP EDD 11/09/11
11/03/11 C-Section at 39w1d for failure
to progress on induction for HBP and GD
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Re: CP: Stitches Vs Staples
I'm pretty sure you didn't only have steri strips. Are you sure you didn't have stiches with steri strips? FWIW I had dissolvable stiches that you couldn't see and didn't have to get taken out.
bfp#4 3/19/2014 edd 12/1/2014 please let this be the one!
beta @ 5w0d = 12,026! u/s 4/22/14 @ 8w1d it's twins!
Yikes!
It was not pretty... They did the staples with no extra pain relievers or numbing agents. They kept saying "one more" and I wanted to punch them. I think I ended with 7 staples.
No, I even asked my OB. No glue, nothing external...just internal stitches and steri strips.
Hunh. I can't imagine steri strips holding together the dermis long enough or well enough.
bfp#4 3/19/2014 edd 12/1/2014 please let this be the one!
beta @ 5w0d = 12,026! u/s 4/22/14 @ 8w1d it's twins!
It didn't. I had spots bust open 2x and infections as well. And my OB's practice wonders why they have so many incision issues...
I had steri strips with interal dissolvable stitches. I was told to keep the steri strips on until they started peeling off. Around 2 weeks PP one side of the steri strips were peeling off so i tried to take all of them off and the right side of my cut wasnt healed yet so those stayed on until about 3.5 weeks. Never had any tearing open problems or anything and Im not going to lie was was doing a little more than recommended before 6 weeks.
I had staples and stitches so maybe I should have picked SS.
When they took my staples out, they found 2 blood clots at the incision. So I was reopened in those 2 places for 2 weeks and then eventually stitched back up. I scar terribly anyway, so it wouldn't have mattered.
From what I understand, the internal stitches are what's holding the skin closed. It's not just the steri strips. It's a specific technique where they can suture the skin closed but leave the stitches inside instead of outside. My husband tried to explain it to me (he's an ER doctor), but I didn't fully understand how it works. But your skin was almost definitely being held closed by stitches, they were just underneath instead of on top.
I had internal stitches and a clear bandage over top, so no stitches or staples on the outside of my skin, but definitely stitches under the skin that held it closed.