Is dilating a permanent thing?

[calico]

  I'd like to ask a related question to all with experience - How on earth did you handle fitting in the frequency and duration of your 1st-year dilations within you work schedule.  In the coming year I may need to start discussions with HR about how we can make it work.

for me I was off work 8 weeks so it made the 3 times a days easier, when I went back to work I basically got up earlier, went to bed later and lots of caffeine.

[Jenna Marie]

Violet : I only had to dilate 4x daily for 4 days after I returned to work, and for those days I came home during lunch to fit in a session. After that it was down to 3x daily, and that was doable if inconvenient (morning, afternoon after work, bedtime).  That lasted for 2 months, and at the beginning of month 4 I could go down to twice daily, which was not too bad (morning, bedtime). Starting in month 6 it was once daily, and at the one-year mark I started to reduce down to the once weekly that I now do.

So it was really only life-eating for the first month, then decreasingly inconvenient for five more months, then easy.

[Brasileira]

I am sorry for  who don't like dilatation, but I guess it is hundred times better have to dilate than to have a P#$%÷, which makes you feel much less feminine, gives you no peace and you must always hide an tuck! To be and feel full woman is wonderful but have its price and in my opinion dilatation is nothing comparing to the self steam and freedom feelings after the op!

[calico]

Have no doubts, if I had to do it over 100+ times I'd do it those 100+ times, dilation is just one of those things accepted with it.

[suzifrommd]

Have no doubts, if I had to do it over 100+ times I'd do it those 100+ times, dilation is just one of those things accepted with it.

I've got to agree with Calico. I've gotten to like it. It's very relaxing. It's time where I can sit back and relax. I can read, meditate, listen to music, or just chill out in front of the TV.

[Jenna Marie]

GeorgeE : I know that Brassard does it, but as far as I know he charges the same as he does for the other version (presumably because the majority of his cost is anesthesiologist, 2 surgeons, etc. and since his operations are very short regardless, there's not a huge savings in time or money by skipping that final step).  You can contact his office and ask directly, though.

I did not get an explicit cost estimate on that as I didn't want it, but my paperwork definitely had a place where I could have opted for the "no vaginal cavity" surgery. And I will say, even setting the vagina aside, the function and aesthetics of what he gave me are amazing...