scissors ? I had mine taken out with a knife. Of course, this is after I let hubby cut my leg open not once, oh no, dumbass me let him do it twice...lol

He did a nice job stitching me up though. I've just learned not to let a bored Ranger medic near a scalpel when I have cyst in my leg (still there too)...:eek:

WHAT? You let him cut on you twice and its still there?

I normally use nail clippers to cut them as close to the skin as possible and have had no such troubles.

You might want to make sure you are pulling on the right ends with the tweezers, though.:D

TR

EXACTLY what I was thinking NDD. :eek:

Yeah, he hit my shin bone and I made him stop. Nothing like the pain of a bone being hit with a metal forcep.

If it starts to bother me more, I'll have it removed one way or another, but it's shifted and seems a little smaller now. The scar is pretty small too.

I did have an oral surgeon leave some in after having my impacted Wisdom teeth extracted.

Abcessed after a week or two and they had to be dug out.

TR

I had some from my wisdom teeth too...but I picked at them until they came out and started bleeding...


Yeah, I'm an idiot...LOL

Geez, what is this amature hour? DOC T!!!!! EAGLE!!!! SACAMUELAS!!!!

Look at what they're doing to each other and themselves!

Most of the time I use chromic gut sutures in the mouth. Will last 5-7 days and then dissolve. They make for nasty scars if used where the wound can be seen though because they cause a little more inflammation than other types of sutures. :( Perfect for wisdom teeth though.

TR-
Fess up Sir. He left them or you didn't want to go back to the "pain cave" again so you skipped your 1 week post-op visit? LOL

Well, one thing I can say is that you seem to have made an accurate diagnosis this time (***EDITED***)CRAZY FRIGGIN MEDIC. ;) LOL

DAMN! What'd she do to you?

Set the stage here. Saigon RVN, Red Cross Day Center not far from House 10 (the SOG Safe House). I'm down there headed out of country on a Stand-Down. We go in and I ask the Candy-Striper if she has a pair of "Nail-Clippers", she says yes, hands them to me and I clip the sutures on my hand and remove them. All is well untill she comes over to see what I am doing and she FAINTS !!! OUT COLD !!!

Talk about blowing one's cover !!! I di-di'd post haste and got clear of the area. !!! LOL :D

WOW!!! NDD- Defender of the masses. You looking for new recruits in your next revolution?

I did use that stupid little winky thing ( ;) )and a laugh out loud(LOL). I was playing ( I guess a litttle to rough. Sorry 24601)

She should know if I didn't like her I would have simply ignored her or sent her a PM telling her that she should always pick her sutures and preferably poke into the socket with sharp knives and dirty toothpicks after every meal. After all, we know those are the best things to do after surgery. LOL

LOL

It was the pieces of dead flesh that I was really picking at. The stitches came out more by accident.

No urge to be a doc btw, I like being a medic. Now, to just get my license in the state I'll be moving to.