Adult circumcision and stitches..

I had really bad phimosis(I think it was phim anyway), wear the foreskin had healed at the top of my penis, to a pin sized hole. No word of a lie, no exaggeration. In other words, I hadn't seen the head of my penis since I was 6 years old. 

I'm 21 now and got a full circ 10 days ago(really weird seeing my head). I took the gauze off after 3 hours (nurses put it on wrong and I was pissing all over the gauze, didn't want to infect the cut so I took it off. So painful) and put a new one on. Put polysporin on stitches/insertion points after every shower and wrapped it with gauze every day. At night when I was done school I took the gauze off and just chilled in my room letting the air hit it.

3 days after the op, the stitches became loose and the sharp end would poke my head. Anyone else have this problem? The pain from those stitches poking my head were far, far worst then the actual circ. Never want to deal with that again.

I guess what I'm asking is, how long do the stitches stay in? Saturday the last stitch fell out. I've heard the stitches stay for like 3 weeks, mine barely made it 9 days. I'm really nervous that they fell out early and I'm going to have some problems. Everything seems fine, I didn't wear gauze today, sensitivity isn't that bad, I can deal with it.

Did I just get lucky or am I bound to run into trouble? I can even pop full on erections with no pain. Haven't tried masturbating but I'm damn tempted too, just worried it's going to rip the skin were the stitches were.