Thanks for that update, Chris. I did notice a pokey-bit or two a few weeks ago. I think those ones were the ends, and had been poking out the whole time. Those seem to be gone. But I hadn’t thought of the possibility of sutures breaking down and causing new ends to poke me with. I am not familiar with the properties dissolving stitches for the skin (as opposed to ones that stay inside the body like the ones used on the urethra itself). I’m not even sure there is a difference, though it would seem a bad idea to have stiff and sharp bits inside the body, especially around the urethra, where irritation and scarring was the problem to begin with.
This would be an excellent topic of research. But if you’ve had suture bits coming to the surface, and I’m going through that as well, it would explain the type of surface pain I was talking about.
I also, though, still have quite a bit of swelling deeper inside. I felt that when I was driving on Tuesday (sitting on a pillow).
BTW, I have decided to back off on the driving and doing anything else right now that involves putting my full weight on the incision site, even while leaning back, and even while sitting on a pillow. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of pain while I do those things. But in the late afternoon and evenings, the pain is significantly worse. So I’m just going back to the donut for another week or more.
Thanks again for the update.
Ken