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My stitches are still on it. Please help me

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It is 17 days after circumcison and my stitches are still on it. so I phoned my doctor and he said that it is not necessary to remove stitches .It will go by own itself. But I'm a little worry about that. How long does it take for stitches to be remove ? Should I worry about that? Or it will disappear after fully recover? Please help me with your experiences.....

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Ipsquint47

If you bathe your penis in salt water it should help the stitches dissolve.

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Rino2001 in reply toIpsquint47

Honestly I haven't bath yet

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SizweBrian

Stitches usually fall off from week 2-4. Don’t stress.

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Rino2001 in reply toSizweBrian

Thanks bro but it feels uncomfortable

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SizweBrian in reply toRino2001

I hear you.Do the salt water bathing of the penis, and once dry moisturise with petroleum jelly or E52 cream or something.

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Kingvon

Hey bro you have nothing to worry about all my stitches where gone after about 10 days but there was one left for about 3 weeks I’m on a month today and everything is healed and as for not having a bath in my experience bro I took a bath 2 days after my surgery and every other day after that just to let it air out for abit I suggest having bath tho keep it clean and then let it air for abit

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Strangerr in reply toKingvon

Its been one month and the stitches are still intact and they usually pokes when its erect

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digiart

Yeah. I was concerned also but my doc said to just wait. A bunch of them came off for me around week 6. The last two came off for me during week 8.

They can be a bit uncomfortable, but let them do their job. They will either dissolve or fall off over time.

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Strangerr in reply todigiart

Thank you I was concerned as my stitches are still intact and its been a month and I am too uncomfortable

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