Urethral problems, possibly Urethral cancer

[Blackwaters427]

So, since about a month after starting estradiol, my urethra feels kind of blocked. I can still pee, but it feels like there's a small blockage that stings a bit when I pee. A friend said it may be a small, embedded bladder stone or it could possibly be cancer. If that's the case and I need surgery to correct it, what's the chance that they'll just perform SRS on it? Also, is genital cancer a reason why a surgeon would turn down someone for SRS?

[JeanetteLW]

One question, Is your friend a qualified doctor?

If the answer is "No" get your bottom in to see one. Unqualfied speculation can do you no good and could do you harm. Go see a doctor and have it checked out.

  Hugs,
   Jeanette.

[mm]

Blackwaters427 get to a dr as JeanetteLW said as you probably have an UTI and need an antibiotic to cure it.  It will only get more serious if you don't see a dr now.

[Sydney_NYC]

See a doctor!!! It's probably not cancer, but more likely a UTI (Urinary Track Infection). They are not uncommon for transwomen who tuck all the time. I had one 2 years ago and it wasn't fun. An antibiotic is all that is needed to treat it and drinking cranberry juice once a week can help prevent it.

Fecal bacteria can cause a UTI and with tucking it increases the chance of it happening. That's way it important to always wipe front to back. But it can happen no matter how well you keep yourself clean.

[Jenna Marie]

Yes, definitely see a doctor in case it's serious; if you do have a urinary tract infection, ignoring it can let it travel to your kidneys, and then it WILL be serious.

I don't think urethral cancer would inspire most doctors to recommend GRS, either. (That's a fairly extreme solution, and they prefer to use the least invasive and most commonly established treatments.) I would also think that no reputable GRS surgeon would agree, because it is well known that surgery can spread cancer cells around - rearranging tissue means that now the cancer has been moved to places it might not have gone on its own, and that's not a good thing.