Hi, Folks. Really happy to report that I am experiencing some better days. Yeah!
However, my temporal biopsy was done near the end of August and I still have some sore spots that are bothering me. I can feel some small bumps that almost feel like pimples.
Has anyone else had this experience? This long after the biopsy?
Thanks
Sounds to me like your scar and. The healing process. Has GCA been confirmed?
Hello,
For a start you say "This long after biopsy". It isn't long at all. For a start they've had a good old hack through layers, so it isn't just a little nip of some tissue. If someone called it a small operation I think there would be fewer people surprised by it. Then it takes a good six months for wounds to mature, and even then improvements keep happening for longer in any wound.
Presumably you had dissolving stitches put in in the top layer. These stitches slowly dissolve. Where the skin layer near the top isn't full of moisture like the under layer they can sit as tiny pieces of undissolved matter especially where the knots are. The skin doesn't always like this foreign body and you can get small points of inflammation like a blackhead or a splinter. I've seen this in my own wounds and other patients and have sometimes very gently squeezed it out months down the line. Quite often they can be like little dry lumps that just scratch out like a piece of dead skin. They sometimes pop out during hair washing and you never know.
However, I wouldn't fiddle for another couple of months or more and have someone who sees lots of wounds to have a look, if you are still troubled. Recently, 6 months after my biopsy and my 'pimples' had gone done leaving one, my husband found an ingrowing hair had caused one to keep going.
So, if you've got someone at home who can have a look, ask them to check that any redness is just confined to those pimples and not larger patches. Make sure there aren't wider areas of warmth, weeping and extra softness. These and persistent pain, especially if new, needs checking out properly, though you wouldn't expect to be totally pain free at this stage, especially if you prod it.
Thank you, SnazzyD. Back the first part of September, I did have a couple of infected stitches which were pulled by an Emergency room Doc because we could not get them out at home.
I will definitely have someone have a look today.
Were they dissolving stitches or ones that needed removing?
They were supposed to disolve but all of them have had to be pulled!
I have sore bits on a scar that is 23 years old! The cut nerves don't heal that well sometimes.
Sorry to hear that your old scar is still bothering you!
Don't feel too sorry for me Glennda - it just stops me kneeling! Can't do housework - what a tragedy... I said it really to show that scars can make themselves felt for a long time and it is perfectly natural.
Snazzy has said it all though. And I'm a bit surprised the ER doc didn't do a bit more than just remove dodgy stitches...
On the other hand I was severely burned on the arm when I was seven, and to this day, the worst bit still sometimes itches and I know that nerves are still healing themselves after nearly a lifetime, and the lesser scars which were still noticeable enough for me to display them as a warning to young children to be careful around candles when I was in my late 30's have virtually disappeared, so healing continues. Glennda, think healing thoughts towards your scar, direct healing there, not fear.
This will heal eventually! Just concerned about possible infections. I have already been on one round of antibiotics because of the biopsy. Just want to do all I can to get well.
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