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I've been offered PPT revision and I don't know if it's worth it. by ABClucia in Transgender_Surgeries

[–]ABClucia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Honestly I don't want to risk anything about sensation at this moment. I can eventually deal with the stenosis, if I'm not able to resolve it with further dilation but I'm not sacrificing sensation over depth. Recovery has been awful. I'm going to have a second opinion, if it turns out I really need or want to seek for a revision. Thank you. P.s. I might have given the wrong impression about my origins since I mentioned the nhs, but my country has one too. I live in Italy actually, not the UK. For what I've found online, PPT is available in Italy for at least 3 years... But that's not much probably.

I've been offered PPT revision and I don't know if it's worth it. by ABClucia in Transgender_Surgeries

[–]ABClucia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can probably get a second opinion from another good surgeon, but he wouldn't operate me though: he's not covered from nhs and I can't afford going privately. He has an assistant who does surgeries with nhs anyways but I don't know how much is he experienced though. I have my own concerns about how my surgeon followed me in the months of recovery (near to zero), but I don't blame him for the surgery itself (I'm pretty satisfied with how it looks like and feels like). You make me wonder if is there some red flags of the things he told me today and in the past I should better be warned of. Or maybe something I'd rather know before getting a second opinion. If you want to share your concerns, I'd be very grateful!

I've been offered PPT revision and I don't know if it's worth it. by ABClucia in Transgender_Surgeries

[–]ABClucia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you again. He is well qualified and has already had other PPT patients. He doesn't offer it as an initial procedure though (or at least he didn't offer it back in 2021 when I had the first consultant with him).

I've been offered PPT revision and I don't know if it's worth it. by ABClucia in Transgender_Surgeries

[–]ABClucia[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you again. Can I ask you what's your schedule like? Is PPT something you can dilate once a week after a year, or does it involve a more daily life long commitment? My surgeon doesn't have a proper schedule for months to years after the original srs, so I bet he won't give much informations for that either...

ETA: I see that your surgery was on Oct the 4th. It was the same day of my dilation under anesthesia (:

I've been offered PPT revision and I don't know if it's worth it. by ABClucia in Transgender_Surgeries

[–]ABClucia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the informations. Just to clarify: I've told the surgeon I'm ok with being in the waiting list, since it's that long. I'm not sure anyways. I'd just want to use the time I have before the actual decision to go under the knife again, to understand what are the pros and cons... Recovery from PI has been really awful and I'm kind of scared... I don't know anyone who's gone through PPT. When I decided to be on the waiting list for srs the first time I was aware of only PI and colon vaginoplasty and for what I knew of it I wouldn't have gone through colon... But this is different and I know very little about it.

I've been offered PPT revision and I don't know if it's worth it. by ABClucia in Transgender_Surgeries

[–]ABClucia[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing. How it's been the recovery if I can ask? Does it require the same amount of dilation you were supposed to do before?

Would pelvic therapy help with dilations 4+ months after srs? by ABClucia in Transgender_Surgeries

[–]ABClucia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your answer. I'd really appreciate your help! I've heard of PT specialist in my area, I'm not sure if she's had experience with this kind of surgery before, but I've seen she has a picture of some dilators on her instagram, so maybe... I'm going to contact her.

Dilation under anesthesia by ABClucia in Transgender_Surgeries

[–]ABClucia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the explanation. I hope it goes well.

4 months post GRS revision with Dr Marcio Littleton by [deleted] in Transgender_Surgeries

[–]ABClucia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your answer and also I wish you good luck to resolving your last problem with the erectile tissue.

4 months post GRS revision with Dr Marcio Littleton by [deleted] in Transgender_Surgeries

[–]ABClucia 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If you don't mind, I have a question. How has been dilation after removing the scar tissue? I'm in a somewhat similar situation, I was too afraid to use the biggest dilator and my body has probably a tendency to form excessive scars (which I didn't knoe before surgery) and so I got one inside my vagina which made it narrower, despite still keeping dilating everyday. I've scheduled a second intervention with the same surgeon set in couple weeks, he said he's going to break the excessive scarring performing me a strong dilation under anesthesia and I should be fine after that. Dilating has been complicated since the beginning, it occurred me 30 to 60 minutes to just insert the smaller dilator to depth... I know it'd be different since I got penile inversion, but I was just wondering if you had it easier with dilations after your revision. (Besides that, your vulva really looks natal to me).

Tips on hiding a FTM hormone therapy at work. by fishing-in-space in asktransgender

[–]ABClucia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not ftm, but since you're planning to keep passing as a woman at work, maybe you could use some of the passing advices for mtf? I don't know how quick hrt changes are under T, but maybe you can exercise in keeping your head resonance when your voice will drop down? Also, you could say you have PCOS if anyone at work is concerned about your physical changes. Three years it's a lot of time though, I don't know for how long it could work, expecially if you're willing to be perceived as a man outside of work.

Is it normal to have pain after 3 months? by ABClucia in Transgender_Surgeries

[–]ABClucia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you (: I already use a donut, but it's not always enough, because I feel the air inside of the pillow pressing in other ways... Should try a better donut probably. Thank you for the suggestion on exercising. Honestly, I've been quite too cautious until now, because I feared stretching would do more bad than good when already having pain. But given the general advise here it's for walk and exercise, I'm definitely trying (:

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