"spitting stitches" or spitting sutures

5 weeks post op and today I had to go in again due to a spitting stitch.  Ihad never heard of that before this  implant.  Today they dug it out (ouch) and it was a knotted end stitch that just wasn't disolving.  Hopefully now will clear up.  

Also, I had the SICD removed at the same time as having this PM/defib put in.  So glad that thing is gone.

Now trying to figure out how to optomize the accelerometer for rate adaptive pacing.  Iread on a post here that some people tap vigorously on their PM to get it to raise the heart rate.  But how hard and how vigorously do you tap?

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Spitting stitches.

by DampDog - 2017-03-01 04:53:18

I had a stitch appear a couple of weeks post implant. That was also the knotted end stitch, I seem to remember it took a good couple of months, maybe more to drop off . They also gave me a couple of rounds of antibiotics at one point as it looked a little reddened. I mentioned it to a consultant and she said it not uncommon, they normally sort themselves out.  

I just kept that end of the wound covered with a small plaster so it did not catch on my shirt until it dropped off. I was careful not to get it wet.

thank you

by belsheart - 2017-03-01 13:10:15

wondering what you put in the plaster?

 

BandAid

by DampDog - 2017-03-01 13:52:23

LOL.. I think you call them BandAids... :-):-) (waterproof if you can find em)

You know you're wired when...

You always have something close to your heart.

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It may be the first time we've felt a normal heart rhythm in a long time, so of course it seems too fast and too strong.