Removing your own stitches

All you need is a small pair of scissors and tweezers. You will be doing the same thing that they are going to do.

You are removing stitches from biopsies or removal of a mass or masses?

If biopsy? Meh.

If it was an excision? You’re crazy. You probably don’t know how deep the MD went. Let your dermatologist remove them. If you tear a small vein or decent capillary? You will be in an ER.

All bleeding stops…. Eventually.

So I’m her mind, she would rather go to the doctor just for them to basically use a medial version of tweezers and pill then out?

The wife (no pics) just had minor surgery, and was told by the doc’s office to remove her own. They even gave her a little kit to do it with.

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You probably don’t know how deep the MD went.

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I had meat literally hanging out from one of mine. It looked like hamburger meat because I hit it with a big router bit

I removed mine just fine. In fact, I probably should have done it a day or two earlier because the skin was trying to heal around the stitches which made it worse.


Here are the photo links but they are very graphic

Before stitches (Graphic)

Stitched up

The doc did a great job and it healed nicely.



This was the bit that did the damage

I used my teeth to remove some of mine.

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Obtuse would have recommended an $8,000 German router bit that has flesh avoiding sensors in it. You screwed up.

Too bad Sawstop doesn't make routers. It was my fault for putting an aggressive bit on a palm router. Should have used my plunge router so I could ease into it and have handles to hold it. I got cocky and tried to work too fast.

Stitch removal is easy. Use a pair of nail clippers to cut the stitches. Pull them out with small needle nose pliers.

My dad often removed stitches from our busted chins, knees, etc. with a sharp pocket knife.

In high school, I sawed a cast off my arm with a hacksaw. Why waste a day driving to the city to see a doc when you have a toolbox right at home?