Were sutures used when you or your son were circumcised?

When you got circumcised, or when your son got circumcised, were there stitches?

This probably depends on the age of the boy and whether he was circumcised in a hospital or by a traditional religious practitioner, so please mention this information.

When I was circumcised five years ago, I had surgical glue to close the cut. It gradually dropped off as it healed, and was all gone in 2 weeks. Results in a much neater scar line.

As an adult when i has it done, yes. My son as an infant: no.

I was circumcised age 6 in a private hospital in the UK back in 1977, I had many black stitches all around the cut line just behind the glans, I think Dacron, but I don’t have my medical notes to hand, they were pulled out (rather painfully) by the consultant and his assistant about a week later, I do still have stitch marks but I be grown accustomed to them

I was circumcised age 6 in a private hospital in the UK back in 1977, I had many black stitches all around the cut line just behind the glans, I think Dacron, . . .

Black is generally silk. Green us usually dacron, but it varies a bit by manufacturer.

Susie: What kind are the stitches that sort of drop out by themselves afterwards?

There are a number of resorbable sutures but the most common are chromic and plain gut especially for skin closures.

For deeper sutures that are to resorb after surgical healing, polyglycolic acid/vicryl are very common.

I recall being at the beach with my mother when a lady came along and asked if she could throw a blanket next to ours. I was probably 10 y/o. Her son was probably 5 y/o. She proceeded to remove the boy's pants. The boy came running over and stuck his penis about a foot from my face. His foreskin had been recently circumcised. His bare glans as a deep purple with a ring of stitches directly behind this glans. It reminded me of a porcupine. She commented that he likes to run around the house naked since he was circumcised. I just stared at his penis curious about his circumcision. A discussion regarding his circumcision between the lady and my mother entailed.

Yes I had a ring of stitches, which were meant to drop off on their own! The last ones were removed in post op visit.

I had sutures when i was circumcised age 6 in the 70s, they were the remove type not dissolving ones

Circumcised as an adult. Dissolving sutures were used, but not all of them dissolved so I had to pull three out. Two went pretty easily, one was a bit stubborn and pulled out a tiny bit of flesh which caused a little bleeding. I ended up with a tiny skin tunnel from one stitch, which is apparently fairly common with the dissolving stitches. I didn't notice it for a couple of years, but when I found it I wiped down the spot with alcohol and snipped it with a sanitized cuticle nipper. After a week it healed smooth; you'd never know there was a skin tunnel there.

My circumcision was in the nineties, I think dissolving sutures were used. My dad, every time he treated me, after a week, I noticed that it came off like scabs.

And at the last check-up after 2 weeks, the doctor removed the last one because it had become ingrown.

My children are not circumcised, but a nephew on my wife's side who was circumcised at 9 but with a device that kept him hanging for a week

I was circumcised as an infant but I am sure sutures were not used

My circumcision was as an adult in 2008 and I had absorbable sutures.

Interestingly thee were only nine and the surgeon explained the current thinking was that being more ‘open’ the wound drained and healed better with fewer stitches. It was all fine and he was right