How painful is it to have stitches removed?

[NuclearDH]

From a limb, not from my nether regions.

Worse than a bikini wax or better?

In the past I've had stitches removed from my stomach and my hand. Neither was painful, just a bit of an odd feeling.

Not painful in my experience; I had 32 staples and stitches removed after fractured and dislocating my ankle.
Hope it goes well OP, take a couple of paracetamol an hour before if you’re worried it might hurt.

Usually not painful, unless the stitches are very tight and scabbed over then it might require a bit of digging about to get them out, unfortunately. Hope yours come out easily, op

Thanks, that’s reassuring. Good tip about the paracetamol.

Depends where, I had some taken out of my arm which didn't hurt at all but the ones taken out of my foot were basically on the bone so it was super painful.

I had stitches removed from my chin and barely felt it. Just a slight pulling sensation.

Tugging, pulling - not as bad as an ingrown hair

I had some in my right boob from a mole removal and it didn't hurt badly.

Its not bad at all

@sqirrelfriends

Depends where, I had some taken out of my arm which didn't hurt at all but the ones taken out of my foot were basically on the bone so it was super painful.

Back of ankle/leg, Achilles tendon area.

I had some taken out of my knee a month ago .. it felt weird but not painful. I almost fainted though and had to have 'extra care' due to having a strange knee phobia 🙄 I felt a right idiot

I had some taken out of a cut above my eye a few months back. They weren't painful, more of an uncomfortable tugging feeling.

I had a weird 'dragging' sensation but it didn't actually hurt. Achilles tendon might be more painful though.

I've had them removed from my back. like others say generally a pulling sensation and nothing more. maybe more like having eyebrows done than a bikini wax and probably still less painful than that

@YanTanTethera123

Not painful in my experience; I had 32 staples and stitches removed after fractured and dislocating my ankle. Hope it goes well OP, take a couple of paracetamol an hour before if you’re worried it might hurt.

I've just had 32 staples removed last week following fractured & dislocated ankle!

OP, not to scare you but I found the debriding of the skin around the wound, after being covered in dressing for a month much worse. I agree with tip above, take a couple of paracetamol beforehand.

I had 15 staples removed from my leg 2 weeks after a knee replacement-hardly felt it.

I fainted getting the ones in my face out as I worked myself into a state(I was only 12)! It actually didn’t hurt.

Stitches don't hurt coming out usually, I did find having staples removed from my abdomen after I had my kidney removed painful but that was probably more to do with my allergic reaction to the staples and the infection than the actual staples iyswim.

it depends how deep they are
Its just an odd sensation
You used to be able to request them to spray it with a local anesthetic , ask them if you are worried

I had 5 removed from my head once. It didn’t really hurt as I recall. My hair being pulled apart to get to the stitches was probably the most painful part!

I've never found it painful. It was a bit of a weird pulling sensation, but it didn't actually hurt. I found that the wound was less itchy afterwards too.

I'm incredibly squeamish & find it ok, not painful just a bit odd

I took mine out myself as they were moving freely. I just snipped each stitch and tugged it out. Probably not to be recommended!