looking into suture hypersensitivity a bit, as it's been quite a painful experience and more importantly re: catalyzing my interests, something i was not warned about nor had heard of before. when "not common but not rare medical side-effect is not told to patient despite patient having abundant meetings & written information on procedure" is whats going on, I get annoyed, dig in.
I have had surgery w/ sutures before w/ no issue (that i could detect), so i guessed that the sutures were different & that led to the reaction in one and not the other. I knew that the first surgery, the sutures were removed manually, while in this one, the sutures were absorbable e.g. would disintegrate and not need removal. & as per Titley-Diaz & De Cicco (linked above), absorbable sutures are more prone to causing a reaction and the reaction tends to overlap with the end of the time in which the sutures are being absorbed by the body ... likely what I am experiencing right now.
I do not know the material of the sutures. Both synthetic absorbable & xenobiotic (silk & catgut) sutures are options, I believe the biotic nature of xenobiotic sutures is why the body can absorb them. Xenobiotic sutures have the highest reaction rate, unsurprising as the human immune system typically isn't a huge fan of "foreign biological matter" being stuck inside of it. silk is relatively great , easy to sterilize & with lower reaction rates.
in any case, allergic reaction is not so concerning apart from the risk of infection, & can be alleviated by removing the sutures if it doesnt clear up. I wish I knew what kind of sutures they used, both so i could look up specifics, and because this whole lack of information around suture reactions (...because i hadnt reacted before...?) seems like a minor-ish informed-consent gap.











