Healing after srs?

[boddi]

I wonder what complications you mention.  I took a long time to heal, due to complications.  I had wound dehiscence and healed by Secondary Intention, rather than the preferable Primary Intention.   I was significantly overweight, and this increases wound healing problems, so I'm told.   As someone said here, smoking hampers healing.  Being overweight can also hinder healing.  Exercise is proven to assist with wound healing, and also a healthy diet will help you heal.   If you are overweight currently, it may not be encouraged to lose weight whilst healing.  You will need nutrients, and calorie-restricted diets may not  give you all you need.   Could you get a referral to a dietician perhaps?  Or maybe you eat healthily?   I hope this helps you.   

  do bear in mind that everyone heals differently and there are several factors which affect this.    Could you maybe be more specific on your problems?     Hope you are ok.

[calico]

Calico, I've not blamed the surgeon for my complications. Apart from the few complications, he has done a good job as far as i'm concerned 

I am sorry I didn't mean that to seem as though it was directed at you, it was posted more as a general knowledge post, as gendrkweer noted it restricts capalaries, which in turn starves the healing tissue of much needed oxygen and other nutrients and can cause necrosis. I have heard on occasion of a horror story abouts ones exprience and how they had complication including necrosis, where the doctor was blamed, the people were all smokers

[nessa76]

I am sorry I didn't mean that to seem as though it was directed at you, it was posted more as a general knowledge post, as gendrkweer noted it restricts capalaries, which in turn starves the healing tissue of much needed oxygen and other nutrients and can cause necrosis. I have heard on occasion of a horror story abouts ones exprience and how they had complication including necrosis, where the doctor was blamed, the people were all smokers

That's bad luck for them but your right, the surgeon isn't to blame because its self inflicted by smoking    Sounds hypocritical of me to say it but I know its true. I will definitely give up smoking, with the help of willpower as well as patches etc...

I know that the complications I have can be fixed somehow 

I know it weren't directed at me, as in you having a go but you are right in the knowledge you have regarding this issue 

[Kiwi4Eva]

Smoking is a huge complication for any surgery, and as Yul Brinner (famous bald actor) said (before he died) "just don't do it"

Yul never had a sex change, but he died of lung cancer from smoking and he knew smoking was going to be the cause of his death.

Any surgical procedure is going to be followed with post-op recommendations.  Smoking is such a big no-no because it robs the blood supply of so much oxygen and nutrients.  Your body needs those...

Smoking has so many negative outcomes.

A cream such as Premarin will keep vaginas healthy and reasonably nourished, whether you are active or not.

When I had intercourse the pain was so lovely I enjoyed it LOL (after surgery)

[GendrKweer]

Smoking's true damage is not just in the diminished oxygen in the blood; it constricts, hardens and inhibits capillary health. Without those little blood vessels, healing is not possible. I smoked for two decades before quitting four months prior to SRS. It's been 19 months or so of being quits, and I credit my surgery for saving my life, as this is the only think I could have imagined quitting for!

[Katie]

I didn't see a narrow definition of healed.  With that said It took the better part of two years to fell 100% normal.