waking up after SRS.

[DrBobbi]

I'm expecting SRS sometime early next year and would like to know how much fun losing your virginity was?

[calico]

I'm expecting SRS sometime early next year and would like to know how much fun losing your virginity was?

It wasn't much fun in fact it hurt for 10 to 15 before it started feeling somewhat better, but as time goes on it gets better, al the fun is in the fourplay 

[DrBobbi]

Thank you!

[Rita]

knowing me... the first thing that will probably be uttered by my lips are "I am hungry" or "Can I pee>?"

[Jasriella]

knowing me... the first thing that will probably be uttered by my lips are "I am hungry" or "Can I pee>?"

They might get annoyed with me complaining about not being allowed to eat.

But omg! That'll be so strange peeing for the first time after they take the thing out.

[Jenna Marie]

I still remember being impressed that the hospital had a big steak dinner for us as soon as we all felt up to it. It was GOOD, too! Really high-quality food there (though the recovery residence had a professional cook on duty and the food was even better).

They also were frantic to get us all to poop, so there was a lot of encouragement to eat heartily and couple it with prunes, etc. The goal was to get everything moving by day 3, if possible. Of course, we were also up and walking within 18 hours, so there was no worries about using the bathroom.  And yes, the catheter stays in for at least a couple days, so "having to pee" isn't an issue either.

[Emmaline]

But worth all that ?

[pretty pauline]

I'm expecting SRS sometime early next year and would like to know how much fun losing your virginity was?

It wasn't much fun in fact it hurt for 10 to 15 before it started feeling somewhat better, but as time goes on it gets better, al the fun is in the fourplay 

Calico is correct, wasn't much fun, infact my first time I was very nervous, my boyfriend at the time was really looking forward to it, but I was very nervous, it hurt the first few times, I had a little bleeding but everything settled down,  he was very gentle which was a great help, but I love the foreplay, holding me and whispering sweet nothings in my ear, that more important to me, a guy knowing how to treat a woman, you'll understand when you have your SRS, its a girl thing

[LizMarie]

As a reply to the OP, I've not undergone SRS yet but one woman said something shortly after (not immediately upon waking) that I found amusing and simply happy. She told her spouse, "I have a vagina! I have a vagina!"

While some transwomen simply become used to it over time, this same woman remains intensely thankful for what she gained on that operating table. Her optimism is even infectious, at least to me.

[Lauren5]

As a reply to the OP, I've not undergone SRS yet but one woman said something shortly after (not immediately upon waking) that I found amusing and simply happy. She told her spouse, "I have a vagina! I have a vagina!"

While some transwomen simply become used to it over time, this same woman remains intensely thankful for what she gained on that operating table. Her optimism is even infectious, at least to me.

I'm sure when my time comes, I'll be super excited over it too. I'm never going to forget my gratitude to the doctors and their staff who do this, those who make it possible for us to actually be us for a change. I'll want to give my doctor a big hug right after waking.
My second thought will probably be get the IV out of me, but no one is going to pay attention to that for a while.

[Missy~rmdlm]

I'll be happy to be alive. Love of life is what got me here, without which I would have checked out long ago. My apprehension about post surgical waking up is complicated by previous experience. There is a good chance I'll be alone with just the staff to keep me company too. I'm not sure I'll be up to a quip.
So with a little luck I'll have good staff to keep me company, they'll keep the jokes flowing.

[Emmaline]

I really have to stop reading this thread... its going to be mid 2015 before I can even think about surgery.

But on the funny side, it annoys me that my car has SRS written on the dash right infront of me.  It is, of course, referring to the airbags, but still its rubbing it in a bit.

[anjaq]

LOL, yeah every time I saw that on the airbag I swas thinking "Oh - not THAT 'SRS'!"

Missy - maybe you can find someone here who will give you a visit. Out TG support group organized visits to people in hospitals a lot. I was also pretty much alone as I did not really want them to come, but I had a friend in the same hospital at about that time, so we were not really alone... I wish some of my family would have come, but you can't have everyting.

[Gwendolyn]

When I woke up in the hospital I had no chance to say anything because the first thing I remember was that I was fed some vegetable soup. This was soo nice and I remember it fondly because I was very weak and even couldn't lift my arms enough to bring the spoon to my mouth.

Overall the whole experience was very intense and I slept very much.

[FrancisAnn]

When I woke up in the hospital I had no chance to say anything because the first thing I remember was that I was fed some vegetable soup. This was soo nice and I remember it fondly because I was very weak and even couldn't lift my arms enough to bring the spoon to my mouth.

Overall the whole experience was very intense and I slept very much.

We are all glad you are OK. Good luck with the next step then maybe in a couple of months a normal life down there.

[Gwendolyn]

We are all glad you are OK. Good luck with the next step then maybe in a couple of months a normal life down there.

Honestly I was very weak but I also was extremly happy.   I'm still not sure if it was just the surgery or if it were the pain killers that got me into that mood but as the happiness prolonged for quite some time I guess that I made the right decision.

[JessicaNYCgirl]

You can eat after srs.. At least I could. I was a little nauxiaus the first day so didn't eat much, but the next day I started eating normally. At first I was a liitle worried about having to poopoo lol and not being allowed to get out of bed, but I ate anyway. Three meals a day. The food at the hospital wasn't great, but luckily they had MacDonalds hamburgers and cheeseburgers and french fries on the menu. I think someone from the hospital actually went to MacDonalds to get it. I kept him or her quite busy :p Anyway, turned out that I was very constipated from the drugs because no poopoo until two weeks after the surgery... With lots of laxatives... Anyway, tmi.

I don't even remember peeing for the first time after they took the catheter out. I think it felt pretty normal, besides burning.. I do however remember the catheter being removed........ I screamed. I really really hated having the catheter inside me too. That feeling when you accidentally hold it too high omg.. Or when they forget to empty it.. Or when someone stands on it by accident..

If I'll have a revision then my first question will be if I'll need a catheter.. If I do, hmmm, maybe a rain check.. At some point during my stay at the hospital I got very intense waves of pain and I just knew it was caused by the catheter. Three nurses looked and said there was no problem. I called in a fourth nurse because the pain was driving me absolutely crazy and she immediately saw that the tube was all bended close to my vagina.. Happened when they washed me.. Guess what happens if the tube is all bended.. Omg.. I can still feel it. Oh yeah removing the catheter isn't always painful. I had a catheter twice and the first time it was being removed I didn't even feel it. I dunno why it hurt like hell the second time.

what happens  if the tube is all bended  while you have it on ?

[Elainagirl59]

what happens  if the tube is all bended  while you have it on ?

Urine will not flow into the catheter bag. Once your bladder is full you will have some degree of pressure/pain.   

[MariaMx]

what happens  if the tube is all bended  while you have it on ?

Well, it's not a metal pipe, so it can unkink you know

When it came time for mine to come out they wanted me to go pee on my own immediately afterwards, so they put a clam on the bag and poured half a gallon of water down my gullet, then they left to go their rounds while they waited for me to have to pee. However it didn't take me more than a couple of minutes before I had to pee but they didn't come back for what seemed like half an hour or so. Long before this I had to pee worse than I thought were possible.

Not being able to pee because of a plugged urethra is no fun at all, and the sensation of it is something to behold. I was yelling and screaming and the sensation of having to pee was insane. If I ever have to pee like that again and there is no toilet I'll just pee my pants, even if I was live on national TV. Not because I'd like to but because holding in a pressure like that would be impossible under any circumstance. The catheter came out of me probably 10-15 minutes after I would have peed my pants had it not been in there.

Like Cherrie above said, it's nothing like having a full bladder. It's like the difference of being a normal person and a super hero or something.

[suzifrommd]

Don't usually like resurrecting cobwebbed threads, but I'm only 3 days post-op, sitting up for the first time since checking in on Thursday, so I'm allowed some fun, right?

Anyway, to review, the following was posted last summer. The idea was to think of the funniest thing you could possibly say coming out of anesthesia after SRS:

So if you can manage to say just one funny thing as soon as you wake up from SRS, what would it be?

Mine would be "i can't feel my bingo"

Followed was a series of hilarious fun posts until a bunch of post op girls educated the rest of us to the realities of waking up after a long operation:

so waking up from SRS is funny to you. A big joke .
I wished I would have died.

The reality however was that when I woke up after srs it didn't even cross my mind that I now had a vagina, let alone what funny things I had planned to say It was a hellish nightmare that I can't even begin to describe and pain and discomfort seemed to radiate out of some unknown alternate dimension, and it lasted for what seemed like days.

Chastened, we pre-op girls beat a hasty retreat (for a few days before we forgot how ashamed we felt and started making jokes again).

Anyway, there was one reply that was so funny that I literally laughed out loud for five minutes.

"All right everyone. I'll put out the lights and count to ten and if it's put back nobody will get into trouble"

Now that I have crossed over to the dark side, and actually woken up after surgery, I can say that it IS possible to have a sense of humor immediately post-op. In fact I DID deliver the line included immediately above, though I didn't get nearly as big a laugh. I'm blaming it on my delivery.