Quote from: Dietlind on April 18, 2019, 10:37:06 PM
I do have a trifle of surgical experience, but I never even dreamed about to even do my own orchi. I would not even know how to bend enough to do some proper cutting and later suturing, leave alone not having an assistant to keep the bleeding under control, or a scrub nurse who would hand the proper instruments to me. At that time we have not even talked about pain mitigation!
To paraphrase the Loopmanics manuals for safecrackers, etc., the following is for education purposes only and I strongly recommend that you
leave any surgery to professionals.
Many years ago, I read a South African magazine called You. it was a translation of an Afrikaans magazine called Huisgenoot, meaning Home Companion, and certainly started as a women's magazine, which makes what I read more intriguing to me.
The article was by a man who had castrated himself after his wife had told him that she didn't want to have sex any more. He was a professional veterinary worker who had often performed the procedure on animals. The article was quite detailed and had a photograph of the instruments used, all carefully laid out and sterile, of course. He started by cleaning and disinfecting the relevant area of his body, then he injected the base of the scrotum with a local anaesthetic. He used sheep castration pliers to cut off the blood flow to the scrotum while he severed it with a scalpel. He wrote that there was no bleeding even after he removed the pliers but he used surgical thread to stitch the wound. He then applied a dressing.
I cut out the useful part of the article and still have it somewhere in the house. I kept it in the hope that I would find someone to follow the instructions and help me. I'm clumsy with my hands and I didn't fancy trying it on myself. I suppose in hindsight that I could have found a way to build my confidence by practicing on sheep but I'm sure that I couldn't bring myself to do that.
Don't try it at home. Remember that the author of the article was a medical professional.
As for bleeding during a DIY penectomy, I have read online that someone who did it in stages used some kind of hemostatic powder to staunch the bleeding but even he needed the intervention of a urologist so that he could still urinate SO DON'T TRY IT AT HOME. In the photo where he made the last cut to his penis, you could see that it was still hanging on to a catheter. I think that he (as I mentioned, he didn't seem to be trans) was lucky he wasn't committed, as some psychiatrists regard non-trans people who want penectomies as psychotic.
And those are the EASY parts. Constructing an actual vagina DIY would be another matter altogether.