Updating......Neuter gone wrong. First, internal infection, now again 2 months later.

[trubandloki]

Glad your dog is doing better after some new meds.

Nothing I have had spayed or neutered has come home with a cone. If they show an interest in licking a cone is added.

I (me personally, not my dog) had a reaction to a dissolving suture knot a couple of months after I had surgery. It was not a huge deal, and I never thought to call my surgery ‘gone wrong’ because of it.

[Color_of_Light]

[QUOTE=NorCalDressage;8433487]
Don’t know how often, but did have a dissolve-able suture reaction in one of mine after a mass removal on her leg. Although it was a little over a month after surgery that we noticed the issue.

She got her external stitches removed at 2 weeks, then about 3 weeks after that had 2 spots where a small amount of fluid accumulated and the skin thinned out and eventually opened up a hole and bled some. Diagnosed as reaction to the dissolve-able sutures. Everything should have been absorbed by then, but I gather it’s fairly common. The rest of the site was pretty healed by then so they opened the problem areas up a little - looked for non-absorbed stitches and cleaned it up and on we went. Went fine after that.

Good luck with your boy![/QUOTE]

Thank you!

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[QUOTE=trubandloki;8433494]
Glad your dog is doing better after some new meds.

Nothing I have had spayed or neutered has come home with a cone. If they show an interest in licking a cone is added.

I (me personally, not my dog) had a reaction to a dissolving suture knot a couple of months after I had surgery. It was not a huge deal, and I never thought to call my surgery ‘gone wrong’ because of it.[/QUOTE]

We’ve had adult male and female dogs come home with cones. Not usually puppies thought.

You knew as soon as you started having complications that it was a suture issue, or were you concerned something was potentially wrong until you received diagnosis of the problem?

[Rudy]

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But normal over two months after surgery, healthy dog, healed incision?[/QUOTE]

As others have pointed out this can be a normal time line. It can take time for the body to try and push foreign material out. A colleague’s small dog developed a hypersensitivity to suture. That was only found out after a cancerous area was removed from the bladder but she kept having infections. Those were fun sutures for them to remove and deal with. Ugh.

[trubandloki]

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You knew as soon as you started having complications that it was a suture issue, or were you concerned something was potentially wrong until you received diagnosis of the problem?[/QUOTE]
I try not to invite trouble with these types of things so my first thought was ‘it is nothing’. I had a follow up appointment already scheduled and the doctor confirmed that it was simply a dissolving suture thing.