KLAXON!! Pic - Tell me this is a stitch and not a.....

[MrsBlimey]

....tapeworm or anything horrendous please!

Have had slightly infected stitches from episiotomy (two weeks ago) and fanjo has been v sore. Was on antibiotics for a week which cleared things up but yesterday (couple of days after finishing tablets) I had more bleeding, soreness and this critter thing when I wiped.

I could have sworn it moved when I first saw it but that might have been my sleep deprived mind getting all freaked out.

Please put my mind at rest!

[Groovee]

I really don't know. I'd get a GP to look x

[crabb]

Hmm, looks a bit long to be a suture, and a bit too thick? (caution - no medical qualifications here, just working from memory of sutures I've seen removed in the past). But the timing would be about right for dissolving sutures to dissolve - I think. Maybe pop it in a jar and let a nurse or doctor have a look.

[theautismdisciple]

It looks knotted at the top. I vote stitch (also no medical qualifications at all, not even a first aid certificate)

[CuppaTeaAndAJammieDodger]

I could be wrong but that looks too thick to be a stitch

[Izzy24]

Difficult to see clearly but that looks a little like one of the ties that hold together swabs used during suturing.

It's not a suture.

[PikachuSayBoo]

No such thing as too long for an epis sutures because it's one continuous suture. So when you start using it it's like a foot long and you stitch what you need to stitch and it it when you've finished.

Looks too small to be a swab tie.

But I can't tell from the photo whether it's a suture, sorry.

[MrsBlimey]

There's something which looks like a knot where the loop and the 'tail' (!!) meet, if that helps.

[MrsBlimey]

Thanks all for your replies so far. Looks like I'm off to the GP to check my stitches this morning then.

[MrsBlimey]

Would a zoomed in picture help? TIA

[abbsismyhero]

Have you poked it?

[MrsBlimey]

Yep - was squidgey.

[PikachuSayBoo]

Yes, zoom in.

[Bambooshoots14]

Does look like a knot and nothing living would have a not surely?

[Bambooshoots14]

*knot

[mineofuselessinformation]

Sorry, but I think it's a worm. The ends would be blunt if it was suture, and it just doesn't look the right colour or texture for a stitch.

[JedRambosteen]

It looks like a roundworm to me.

[Izzy24]

Looking at clearer picture (and now I'm awake) agree with Pikachu.

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

That's a worm!

[Lj8893]

It looks far to thick to be a suture. They really are quite thin.

[Bambooshoots14]

But how would a worm be knotted?!

[peaceloveandbiscuits]

Who else had to wash their hands after reading about roundworms? GP today OP.

[MrsBlimey]

I'm beginning to accept the gruesome possibility that it's a worm of some kind!
Off to the GPs in a mo. He was most intrigued to find out I'd taken pictures....a fellow sporner, perhaps.
I think the knot is actually where the worm thing has tangled itself up....
Please - for the love of God - don't whatever you do Google image ringworm. Even you hardened sporners! (They have teeth, ffs)
Will update you when I'm back.
Ttfn and thanks for all your wise words!

[IAmAPaleontologist]

have you been to the gp yet?

I googled round worms. The I google imaged round worms. It was amazing! I kind of want you to have round worms now. The pictures of those fuckers in eyes are gruesome.

Well, OK, for your comfort I hope it isn't a round worm. Maybe.

[flanjabelle]

Oh dear God. What the fucking fuck is that.