Scar Tissue Ripped Open...

[bryanarae]

A little back ground:
8 months and 1 day ago I gave birth to my beautiful daughter. I had a hard time healing and only had 3 - 4 stitches. They dissolved quickly but I continued to be in discomfort for a few month PP. My husband and I began having sex about 3 months PP and it was painful, to say the least. We continued to try, and worked through the pain very patiently and lovingly. Eventually we got to the point that we could have sex pain free! It was about 6 months PP but it did happen. Now, 8 months PP, we were having sex and half way through the deed I felt a pop and a really bad sting/burning sensation below. I tried to work through it, but it didn't happen. We stopped half way and I was bawling like a baby. I went to the bathroom to investigate and I wasn't pleased. It looks asthough the scar tissue from one of my outter stitches split. It burns whenever I pee, which I expected, but when I went #2 it started bleeding again and even more. I suspect it is from the pressure. What I want to know is if this has happened to anyone else? Especially it being 8 months PP and having painfree sex for just over 2 months. This seemed to have happened so randomly, it kind of scared me. So has this happened to anyone else? And should I see my Dr or wait and see if it heals up on its own?
Thanks!

[bryanarae]

Hi Mary
Thank you for your input.
I wasn't too sure if they would want to do a repair or not, I am going to call my Drs office and see what they say. I sure hope they don't want to do a repair. It isn't a large tear, not even a cm long, it is just really painful. But it isn't nearly as tender. I was thinking of letting it go over night and see if sleeping without too much movement might help it heal up.
Again, thank you, I appreciate the feed back!

[Mary_63]

Ouch!  Hi Bryanrae.  I work as an OB nurse, but I'm going to give you my personal experience here.  Please ask your doctor for any real medical advice.  First, I'll tell you that not all tears after birth even get repaired if they are small.  They "can" heal up on their own just fine.  But this is expecting that you aren't going to be having sex for the six weeks after delivery too, so this might put a kink in your plans.  I think I would just give the nurse in the office a call and see if your doctor wants you to come in or not.  I think it's unlikely that they will suggest restitching it up, because after the original break in the skin for any kind of cut, etc, there is a risk of closing in an infection too.  They usually suggest letting reopened wounds close naturally.  I think it would be important that the doctor knows this situation though, for his own knowledge of how his patient did after his repairs and perhaps you will need some kind of monitoring of the healing.  Maybe it would be repaired?  But I really don't think that's going to be recommended.  If it's considered a new wound, maybe. Best wishes to you!