Stitches- pro's and con's for self removal?

I have some stitches, they are driving me nuts (itching), they are due out on Monday but the wound is healed.

What horrifying things would happen if I cut them and pulled them out myself now?

You might give yourself AIDS (if you are already infected).

Also they might not be stitches, are they at the front of your eyelids ?

Also some other stuff.

And also I have a friend who pulled his own stitches out, at the time it seemed to go just fine, no infection, no excessive pain, all healed up . . . . . . . but exactly 22 years and 7 months later he died in a plane crash.

The Nosferatu branch of the NHS are seemingly always keen to have some of my AB+ goodness, so I think the AIDS is not an issue so far.

Not at the front of my eyelids- lower than my bottom lip, higher than my collarbone.

In 14 years and two months I shall make sure to be on a boat.

There is a slight possibility you may re open the wound.
Its small, very, very small.
Otherwise it'll be fine, but you may open the gates to a dark, dark place.

Tell me more of this dark, dark place Eyebrows?

A man goes to the doctor with a steering wheel down the front of his pants. The doctor asks "What's the problem?". The man says "I don't know. But it's driving me nuts".

I cannot laugh, it hurts. Stop it.

The place is often found on the 13th floor of Japanese High rise hotels, that don't have a 13th floor, but have a 12th and a 14th.
you pass through the wall and there you are.

it can also be found at the bottom of a well in tokyo suburbs

also a little used forum for fixed gear riders in london.

We seem to have gone a little Thomas Pynchon?

just wait it out til' monday, doctors get pretty fucking pissed off when you do that shit yourself and will bollocks you otherwise in the future, if you go to a doctor just do as they say.

...and instead of thinking about it and posting threads about this, find something to do and distract yourself from the itch.

The next day the man goes back to the doctor only this time there's a lettuce poking out of his bottom. The doctor looks at it and says "It looks bad; and that's only the tip of the iceberg".

Patient: Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this!

Doctor: Don't do it then.

ok so there's this guy, and he comes into a hospital's A + E room at 3 am one morning, complaining of lower abdominal pain. So after a bit of waiting he gets seen by the docs and they can't work it out by palpitation so they send the guy off for some X rays.
These come back and the Docs can't believe what they're seeing, a miniature replica of Nelson's Column right up the old rectum, poking its way around the sigmoid colon.
So with a sense of ennui, the doctors approach the guy and ask the age old question- "how did that get up there?" and the man denies all knowledge.
Which is novel as normally " I was cleaning the mantelpiece naked...." is the reply.
So they schedule surgery and take it out, and show it to the man.
Immediately he grabs the miniature, and proceeds to attempt to shove it back up his arse.
"That's Nelson, he lives up there".

classic.

Completely off tangent joke:

Why does snoop dog carry around a umbrella?
Fo' Drizzle.

Bloke walks into the dentist's.
"Doctor, Help me, I Keep thinking I'm a moth.
"What are you doing here? This is a dental surgery."
"Well, the light was on."

no harm in taking out your own stitches as long as its healed and you use TCP or something similar to moisten the scab from the stitches and disinfect too (most important!).
makes it easier to then pull out.

"What's that, nurse? Well a bloke off the internet said it would be fine..."

I'd take my own stitches out rather than have some random nurse do it for me.

Just wait until monday, its not that long, i've had nuff stitches in my lifetime and I recommend either drugs or alcohol to take your mind off the itching.

I'd take my own stitches out rather than have some random nurse do it for me.

"Random"? In what sense?

You're in for a treat when they come out. It's a weird tickly feeling. Mmmmm.

I had always take my own stiches, piece of cake
no need to go to the doctor, wait 2 hours for a 5 min job
go for it, don't worry

"Random"? In what sense?

random as in random.