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!

Worm

Rightsforwomen - you think so? Holy cow.

Going against the tide here, I vote stitch, the squidgyness and tapered ends and thickness can all be explained by them being soluble stitches. They absorb moisture and slowly soften and dissolved meaning you don't have to have them removed. I had them for my Fanjo stitches. ........

Good news is if they're coming out and the wound looks fine I'd say you're on the mend.....

I'd vote stitch too tbh! Where would you have picked up worms?!

That's what my stitch looked like! Except without the knot.
I'm voting stitch.

Thank you for sharing.

Amazing!

Have just been reminded that the doctor who stitched me up said that the sutures were blue so that if they floated out in the bath or whatever, I'd know what they were.

Bit like having a blue plaster on your hand on GBBO I suppose.

I am lost for words

Poor you OP

Oh keep us posted op...... Gruesomely intrigued

They are both knotted. That proves its worms. Suicidal ones. Why else would they knot themselves up and jump out?
Nah. Deffo stitches.

Oh how exciting!

For us. Less so for you.

Could internal fanjo stitches have migrated through to bum cavity and that's why they are coming out of bum?

I don't think I've ever clicked on a zoomed in pic of someone's arse worm before.

#wtfmn

I can't believe I've been avidly studying those pics think I've lost the plot.
Place marking as I need to know what it is!

Looks wormy

Place marking too!

Weird how they're both sort of knotted in the same way though. Do round worms knot themselves up?

You've not eaten bean sprouts recently have you?

Where's the mumsnetter that actually is a bum worm expert?
Think her name begins with L not that im a regular on bum worm threads oh no

Sorry OP but I'm dying at the thought of suicidal arse-worms!

Looks like a beansprout to me and is now making me want a chinese for tea. Slightly disgusted with myself that your possible arse worms could be the reason I get a takeaway

Best thread ever, thank you for sharing your arse maggots

Place marking to see what they are..
How long til you get results, OP?

I took a MN break for a while. This thread has restored my faith in the glory that is sporn on MN

Tigger I had tears of laughter at "suicidal bum worms"

MrsBlimey poor you but EXCELLENT sporning work, love the fact your GP was also impressed with the pictures