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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / February 2006Does it hurt to have the staples removed after RRP?
Looking at all that metal down there is quite distressing. Does it hurt when the staples come out? WhiteSoxFan > Looking at all that metal down there is quite distressing. Does it hurt > when the staples come out? > > WhiteSoxFan Nope!  SignatureJerryW Please respond to group; email address is not valid 2/11/04 PSA 2.6, Suspicious DRE (age 62) 2/23/04 Biopsy: Gleason 3+4=7, T2a, left lobe 5/18/04 RRP, Path: Gleason 4+3=7, T2c, both lobes 7/13/04 PSA <0.1 10/12/04 PSA <0.1 1/18/05 PSA <0.1 4/26/05 PSA <0.1 10/13/05 PSA <0.1 Yep! I recommend prior to your appointment to get them out that you wet a washcloth w/ warm water, lie down and place it over the incision area, and let it soak awhile. The problem is that each staple leg puncture has begun to heal by forming a little scab around the metal. When you pull it out it is like pulling off all those little scabs - they don't want to let go! Soften them up and the staples should come out like butta. Bill Denton RP 2/12/02 PSA .67 Memphis > Yep! > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > want to let go! Soften them up and the staples should come out like > butta. Extraction of staples on my scalp didn't hurt - although I was expecting it to. They used a special staple remover, which they gave me afterwards. There was no scabbing ten days after insertion. I go for the pins in my toes being pulled out onWednesday, thinking of it makes me "feel funny in my water" as we say here (which also helps keep it on topic) but I've been told that it tickles. We shall see. Mary > Bill Denton > RP 2/12/02 > PSA .67 > Memphis The "bark" is worst than the "bite". John Loomis You will do fine. You will feel so much better when they are gone! > Looking at all that metal down there is quite distressing. Does it hurt > when the staples come out? > > WhiteSoxFan > Looking at all that metal down there is quite distressing. Does it hurt > when the staples come out? > > WhiteSoxFan Run your fingernails around the area. Do you feel anything? The site is so numbed up, you won't feel anything for weeks. Signature"Don't get me wrong... I'm SNARKY" JK Sinrod Sinrod Stained Glass Studios www.sinrodstudios.com Coney Island Memories www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories on me ,the staples toward the top were ok but the ones down bottom were a little tender. i asked the guy pulling them out if he could alternate ,top and then bottom but i guess he didn't understand what i was saying. it wasn't all that bad anyway. good luck. 42n8-1 psa @ 3 months - 0 > Looking at all that metal down there is quite distressing. Does it hurt > when the staples come out? > > WhiteSoxFan > Looking at all that metal down there is quite distressing. Does it hurt > when the staples come out? Depends on how they do it. If they use a staple remover that unfolds the sharp ends, I understand it's no big deal. On the other hand, if a guy shows up with an electrician's pliers, run. :) From: leicam13@comcast.net (WhiteSoxFan) Looking at all that metal down there is quite distressing. Does it hurt when the staples come out? WhiteSoxFan ========= i had 25 of those steel puppies in me. i ask that same question. but by the eighth day, they started to sting a little bit and it was getting to where i WANTED them out. it wasn't painful. i say that because i would remember something like that and i don't. i just remember walking in and laying on the table and them taking them out and feeling better that the metal is gone. so, everyone is right, it shouldn't hurt. ~ curtis knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional "Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so." http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc I dunno. I had super glue. SignaturePSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3cN0M0 Neg margins PSA .1 .1 .1 .27 .37 .75 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 (4 mo), 12/03, 4/04, 09/04, 01/05, 5/05, 10/05 PSA .07 .05 .06 .05 .08 Non Illegitimi Carborundum > Looking at all that metal down there is quite distressing. Does it hurt > when the staples come out? > > WhiteSoxFan Absolutely not! However, it sure hurt to have them left in after the swelling went down. After that they are loose and any movement causes the points to irritate the incision. The second time my father-in-law had them, he removed them himself rather than put up with the pain. > Looking at all that metal down there is quite distressing. Does it hurt > when the staples come out? > > WhiteSoxFan Didnt hurt me, but as you can tell from the responses, "your mileage may vary." No, for me it did not hurt. I guess this procedure has been perfected. Another thing that worried me was the catheter in my penis, but when it was taken out that did not hurt either. Perhaps because a pretty red haired nurse did it. Finally, all of this crap is one more step toward being without any of the unintended results of the surgery. I am still mad though, after five years, that I failed to find someone to do the operation using the newer computerized and minimal incisions techniques. My doctor tried that but an earlier doctor had given my hormones to shrink the prostate and that made trying to do the operation by remote impossible. There is a huge difference between the two techniques as far as I know. No, for me it did not hurt. I guess this procedure has been perfected. Another thing that worried me was the catheter in my penis, but when it was taken out that did not hurt either. Perhaps because a pretty red haired nurse did it. Finally, all of this crap is one more step toward being without any of the unintended results of the surgery. I am still mad though, after five years, that I failed to find someone to do the operation using the newer computerized and minimal incisions techniques. My doctor tried that but an earlier doctor had given my hormones to shrink the prostate and that made trying to do the operation by remote impossible. There is a huge difference between the two techniques as far as I know. > No, for me it did not hurt. I guess this procedure has been perfected. > Another thing that worried me was the catheter in my penis, but when it [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > operation by remote impossible. There is a huge difference between the > two techniques as far as I know. But it's all over now. The most important thing is that the cancer is gone. Healing will occur, if it has not already, and hopefully side-effects are minimal. NOPE When I asked my Uro if it would hurt he said tell ya what I'll just pull 3 and we'll see. He went to work and in what seemed like seconds he said how was that and i told him nod bad hardly felt anything. He said goos cause we're already done. And by the way the catheter removal was also painless just a funny sence of movement. Of course your milage may vary > Looking at all that metal down there is quite distressing. Does it hurt > when the staples come out? > > WhiteSoxFan slight stinging sensation. No pain no gain, you be fine. dalej SignatureEmail: dalej2@mac.com Not really - nothing to worry about >> Looking at all that metal down there is quite distressing. Does it hurt >> when the staples come out? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >dalej OK, WSF, you've seen the responses - just keep in mind that most of these guys say the biopsy wasn't anything either, or having the catheter removed, etc. - so take it w/ a grain of salt. Several of mine were like pulling a hair out of that area w/ forceps - try it and see how you like it - if that's nothing to you then fine. But, why take a chance or even suffer any discomfort when you don't have to? Soften them up as I suggested. Bill Denton RP 2/12/02 PSA .67 Memphis |
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