As another Bowers' Babe here, with 7 months of healing, the critical event for me was the disappearance of the last of the sutures. and I did have a couple hang around at the bottom of the labia majora until about week 6, and one stubborn little devil at the top of my labia minora that made dilation an adventure for a bit at the end of week 6. It was also about then that I was able to quit using panty liners. A big help in gaining more normal and less swollen tissue, was that while our surgery package does not mention Sitz baths as a must, at your phase of things, having a sitz bath after dilation three at bedtime is helpful and you can make it a tub bath soak if you like. I was told to take them since I had a yeast infection develope at between week three and four and it got lube out and just was soothing. Do wear cotton panties and change them after each dilation along with the liners. Liner change at every pee break. At the end of your first 90 days you should be pretty calm and no where near as nasty touchy, and will be getting more erotic signals from your green friend.
One week to go and you can substitute the real thing for one dilation per day!! It never happened for me, but I hope you can have better luck. (If that is your thing.)
