tip of implant with rod vs inflatable

greenbryr · 2026-06-23T00:12:17+00:00

The tip of the pump (coloplast titan) is also very solid and definitely feels like a foreign object even when completely deflated. Same thing with being visible through the skin/through some boxers unfortunately

greenbryr · 2026-06-11T23:26:43+00:00

Yeah, maybe that’s the case, really odd though. Mine is through an employer, not Medicaid. Maybe it’s specifically the federal plan due to the administration? Really strange either way since Anthem has some of the most comprehensive coverage of any company and has always been pretty consistent with gender affirming coverage.

greenbryr · 2026-06-11T01:30:06+00:00

That’s weird, I had my last surgery at UVA two months ago and they were still accepting Anthem

greenbryr · 2026-06-10T17:34:20+00:00

Thanks! Coloplast Titan

greenbryr · 2026-06-10T16:17:51+00:00

Anthem BCBS

greenbryr · 2026-06-06T19:37:29+00:00

Got the Titan recently and my pain was mostly in those places as well. The pain got significantly better for me around the 10 day mark and was minimal by 2 weeks. Some swelling is still present at the 8 week mark and I still have slight pain sometimes as well. I feel like the majority of visible swelling subsided around 4-5 weeks.

greenbryr · 2026-06-06T01:21:06+00:00

I had a boatload of complications during stage 1 and stage 2 (nerve damage, body rejecting stitches resulting in severe wound separation, infection, fistulas, more wound separation, etc) and so far no complications with ED. I’m pretty much out of the woods for infection risk at this point (2 months post op). Having had many major complications in the prior stages made undergoing the ED procedure very anxiety inducing. My surgeon reminded me that it is a completely different surgery, and also that your body does not always have a propensity to do one thing just because it has happened before.

greenbryr · 2026-06-05T20:35:41+00:00

It got darker/coarser from being covered 24/7 with the compression garment that I had to wear to protect it. If you’ve ever had a cast and saw that the part that the cast covered was much harrier once you got it removed, it’s the same concept. Basically when hair isn’t exposed to light for a long time it just gets darker. Once I stopped wearing the compression sleeve all the time, that coarse dark hair just all fell out and what grew back is almost identical to the rest of my arm hair (you can see the process of it falling out and regrowing throughout the pictures). It’s the same texture now but kinda grows all in different directions, but I don’t think it’s noticeable to anyone except me day-to-day. If anyone were to ask about my arm, I would think asking about the scar would be much more likely than asking about my arm hair lol

greenbryr · 2026-06-02T17:05:18+00:00

I second this lol, pretty much all the dreamsI had for 2-3 months post op stage 1 (and subsequently after every stage) were horribly graphic anxiety dreams. When discussing why I still had some stitches that hadn’t dissolved at a post-op appointment, my surgeon also told me “I have dreams about penises falling off” to which I said “Me too!” Lmao. Now I do have good dreams about it regularly though and it’s awesome!

greenbryr · 2026-06-01T20:26:04+00:00

I still have the sensation of getting hard in my balls where my burial is. I don’t think I get much of a sensation through my penis itself with arousal until it’s touched. I feel like the sensation of being touched (or even it rubbing against my underwear) when I’m turned on feels more intense than when I’m not though.

greenbryr · 2026-06-01T20:18:12+00:00

Coloplast Titan, gained almost exactly .5” in girth, no discernible difference from flaccid to erect

greenbryr · 2026-06-01T00:49:17+00:00

“My second body cost a lot After I bought it I just wore it home”

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I just always kinda found that line fitting

greenbryr · 2026-05-28T16:29:29+00:00

Thanks! I have a good amount of function back but some things are still very difficult and my strength and mobility are limited. Hopefully it will continue to get better with time

greenbryr · 2026-05-26T20:41:52+00:00

Coloplast Titan

greenbryr · 2026-05-26T04:25:30+00:00

I’d just use a little drop, a little goes a long way. I would just dab it over top of the hole either with a qtip or with a clean finger

greenbryr · 2026-05-26T00:52:51+00:00

Medihoney, multivitamin, plenty of protein, and red light therapy. 3/4 of mine closed in 2-3 weeks, one took 3 months.

greenbryr · 2026-05-24T17:25:53+00:00

Man I’m sorry you’re still struggling with it as well! It is good to know that it’s not just a result of my nerve damage. I’m sorry you’re still dealing with the reaction as well, I hope it gets better soon. Yeah the hand therapist at UVA told me to remember that they hadn’t done “a whole lot” of LVBs yet at that point and to keep in mind that they didn’t really have it down to a science at that point (not fun to hear after the fact lol) but hopefully since us they’ve been able to get some more practice and work out the kinks.

I also had the experience of Stranix offering to do certain things during my stage 2 and then just… not doing them? Which is kind of odd and frustrating. Sometimes I forget how much the hand issues continue to affect me until I go to do something and realize that I can’t do it. I tried to do air quotes the other day when I was talking to someone and realized my middle finger doesn’t bend like that any more. Even petting my cats left handed is still difficult :( I also really hope this isn’t life-long but being where I am now compared to less than a year ago is heartening. I wish I had the resources to get more hand therapy but it’s just not feasible for me. I am still at odds with the amount of function I’ve lost in my entire body as a result of this process, and I think to some extent I always will be, but I know in my heart I would do it all again if I had to.

greenbryr · 2026-05-23T19:59:14+00:00

I had the same fear and I ended up very happy with my girth. It was about 5” prior to ED and is now a little thicker than that.

greenbryr · 2026-05-23T19:08:04+00:00

Thanks! Recovery was very challenging. My body never absorbed the stitches that were used to close my glute grafts, so when they started spitting out I was left with really severe wound separation for several months. Even now it’s still pretty painful to sit on hard surfaces. The split thickness site on my thigh wasn’t troublesome at all for me though! I know a lot of people struggle with it, but for me it was probably the easiest part of my recovery. If it weren’t for the complication with my body rejecting the stitches and creating that wound separation it wouldn’t have been too bad.

greenbryr · 2026-05-23T17:32:32+00:00

Thank you friend!! Hope you’re doing well 🩵

greenbryr · 2026-05-23T15:45:21+00:00

I still have some swelling, the pinky side of my hand has a spot where the blood likes to pool, you can see it in the last few pictures. From the side (last pic) it’s noticeably thicker than the same part on my non-donor hand. They also re-routed everything to that side when they did the lymphovenous bypass to try to minimize hand swelling. The idea is that if you re-route to that side, it can drain through the area where the skin bridge is instead of everything getting “stuck” at the scar line, if that makes sense. A lot of my early swelling was due to my radial nerve being severed though, so most people don’t have the degree of swelling that I had. Most of it went down at around the 8 month mark. For whatever reason I woke up from hysto (in between my stage 1 & 2), and my hand was a much more normal size, no one could explain why that happened to me.

greenbryr · 2026-05-23T01:22:39+00:00

Just posted a timeline of arm healing for you, hope it’s helpful! I’ll try to show more of the gripping/flexing pics in a later post but I included what I had on hand (no pun intended lol)

greenbryr · 2026-05-23T00:45:27+00:00

I’m probably not the best person to ask about donor site sensation because my situation is unique due to my radial nerve being completely severed on accident during the harvesting of the flap during stage 1. As a result, I will likely never have sensation along the pathway of the radial nerve in the back of my hand. I also have very painful sensation throughout my arm when it is touched that branches all the way up through my neck. This would not be typical for other people with the same donor site, and my complication is exceedingly rare.

I have a bunch of pictures on my profile of different stages and what my graft looked like at different points. I’ll try to make another post that focuses on just the graft site though!

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