# Aching scar

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aching-scar/646453>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 8, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aching-scar/646453 "2013-01-08T05:21:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aching-scar/646453/1 "2013-01-08T05:21:06Z")

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I’m not freaking out, but am puzzled as to why this happens.

I’m 43, and had an appendectomy at age 8. It had ruptured, so I did have a case of peritonitis to deal with too.

My surgical scar aches/burns occasionally, and I’ve never been able to deduce a pattern. It doesn’t seem to relate to my menstrual cycle, what I’ve been eating, or anything else I can think of.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aching-scar/646453/2 "2013-01-08T05:41:46Z")

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I had the same thing when I was 28. Ruptured, peritonitis, and the surgeon put the wrong kind of stitches in the inside . . . the kind that don’t dissolve. I was still rejecting stitches through the skin, 2 years later.

Anyway . . . it does get a little painful from time to time, though it’s been 39 years. It usually happens when I’ve gained weight and the skin is pulling on it.

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**Author:** ![Mavic\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mavic\_Chen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavic_Chen)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aching-scar/646453/3 "2013-01-08T11:05:41Z")

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I broke my right arm when I was 10, over 30 years ago now and it still aches sometimes.

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**Author:** ![JLRogers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@JLRogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JLRogers)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aching-scar/646453/4 "2013-01-08T11:47:56Z")

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I have a scar from a bayonet wound on my left arm. It occasionally hurts, but since it was a fairly shallow wound I have always assumed that the pain is psychosomatic, although I guess it’s possible that the scar tissue presses against a nerve.

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**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aching-scar/646453/5 "2013-01-08T11:59:42Z")

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Is it at all possible that your surgeon was a dark wizard who is, of late, returning to this world?

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**Author:** ![JLRogers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@JLRogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JLRogers)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aching-scar/646453/6 "2013-01-08T12:16:35Z")

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Uh-oh. The OP is a Horcrux!

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aching-scar/646453/7 "2013-01-09T16:06:50Z")

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Adhesions, perhaps?

I still experience twinges from where my gallbladder used to be. Just twinges, nothing major, and always inside (the skin incisions are all fine),