Had two lipomas excised yesterday, on my back. Two inch-long incisions stitched up. They itch, they hurt a little, and despite being told I can do ‘normal activity’ my anxiety about tearing the stitches is making me walk like I’m seventy years old, holding my back as straight as possible.
I think I’ll just live with the others that I wanted to remove… even though they’re not on my back, ten days of stitches and itching and bruising is not worth it.
Don’t hunch over when you paint.
ETA: and don’t google Lipomas right before lunch. Ugh.
Painting will not be happening until the stitches are out. Though I may spray-prime those assault marines I’ve been working on.
Oh, and somehow, despite a level of inactivity slightly above ‘dead’, I managed to pop one of the goddamn stitches yesterday. At least, that’s when I noticed it; pretty hard to see on my back, even with mirror assistance. Going into the doc tomorrow to see if it was a critical one…
Pineapple’s a delicious anti-inflammatory that could speed healing. And is yummy. Are the wounds where you can reach them w/ an ice pack? It would make them feel better.
I don’t know what a lipoma is. I’m not going to Google it. It sounds gross.
Get them removed or at least please keep your clothes on, forever.
I looked up lipomas on Google Images, and the puzzling thing to me is how someone could let something on their neck grow to the size of a cantaloupe without doing something about it. Some of the people looked like Quasimodo :eek:
Not reliably, no. And it turns out the stitch isn’t popped, it’s just part of a ‘buried’ or hidden suture. So all is well, it seems.
Reported!
Oh, good the stitch isn’t popped! That would have been frustrating. Can you reach them to put Neosporin on? There’s a Neosporin w/ a moisturizer in it, could cut down on the itching as it heals.
I’m curious about why there’s bruising, is it only at the incision site or does it spread away from it? I’ve had that happen from giving blood, the bruise crept up my whole upper arm and shoulder in the week afterward.
One of the two incisions - the larger one - has a fairly large but not especially ‘deep’ bruise pattern. It’s more purplish than it is painful.
I can reach them just well enough to change the bandages, with some effort. The Doctor gave me a prescription for some antibiotic gel to use on the bandages when I called him on Sunday about the suspected popped stitch.
I wonder if the bruising’s to do w/ the thick skin we have on our backs. My friend who’s had over a dozen lipomas removed in his adult life from both arms hasn’t had bruising but has never had the hairs grow back at a incision site. His doc said it’s because the skin’s so thin and full of follicles on his arms. The men on his dad’s side all have had lipomas removed, yet his doc says there’s no genetic link.
Candid, I hope today finds you more comfortable than the day you started this thread!
My doc said they’re autosomal dominant genetic-linked. Dunno?
No changes to report. I think I’ve finally managed to start getting good at reaching that upper incision with the bandage.