Is the SRS hideous painfull?

[Sheeba]

Srs is pretty painful. I had breast implants done at the same time and I thought the implants hurt much more than vaginoplasty.

[lisagurl]

I did not have FFS.  I suspect that FFS would be much more painful

For me SRS was ten times worse than FFS. I was walking miles 3 days after FFS I could not do that for over three months with SRS.

[deniz]

someone said you either stay vertical or horizontal.for how long
will i be able to fly back home after srs???

[Sandy]

someone said you either stay vertical or horizontal.for how long
will i be able to fly back home after srs???

It mostly depends on how long you will be in flight.  Though usually most doctors will sequester you long enough that you can take a flight of several hours without too much discomfort.  Though your dilations will have to be caught up.

(The mental image of dilating on an airplane is just too funny!)

-Sandy

[cindybc]

"Hee, hee, hee." on the dilating on the plane, funny, had that same image, but then I have lots of silly images going through my head most times. Well I don't know about any other Dr's but when I went to, Dr Brassed, the duration from the time of surgery to the time you get on the plane was 12days. Two day stay at the healing house before surgery, three days at the hospital and seven at the healing house.

Everyone experiences a different rate of healing. I was up and about walking around the day after the surgery and I was walking about up and down a set of stairs three times a day for meals and once in the evening for socialising or just messing with my lap top.

So they encourage you to move about at least four times a day then there is your 4 dilation's and 4 baths per day, so you don't have mush time to get bored.

They also give you these pills to take when you get on the plane and believe me you will feel quite comfortable and they also suggest you get up and walk back and forth in the isle of the plane at least every half hour.

Cindy     

[Sandy]

I hear that Samuel L. Jackson is going to do a sequel to "Snakes on a Plane":

"More terrifying than any snake!

"More debilitating to the male ego than any accidental gay encounter!"

"Comes in more colors, sizes, and shapes than any reptile!"

"NOW, Samuel L. Jackson is back to do battle with terrifying plastic and latex!"

Universal Pictures presents "DILDOS ON A PLANE!"

Coming soon to a theater near you!!!


-Sandy(Ebert would give it 12,387,651,524,376 thumbs down!)

[Wynternight]

"I am sick and tired of these mother^%$@&^%$# dildos on this mother@&^%#*& plane!!"


OK, I know this is an old thread but I'm reading stuff about transition from way back and just had to respond to this one.

I hear that Samuel L. Jackson is going to do a sequel to "Snakes on a Plane":

"More terrifying than any snake!

"More debilitating to the male ego than any accidental gay encounter!"

"Comes in more colors, sizes, and shapes than any reptile!"

"NOW, Samuel L. Jackson is back to do battle with terrifying plastic and latex!"

Universal Pictures presents "DILDOS ON A PLANE!"

Coming soon to a theater near you!!!


-Sandy(Ebert would give it 12,387,651,524,376 thumbs down!)

[cindybc]

 mother@&^%#*& plane!!" I can agree with that but the clowns are only few but when they are all we see on the media performing it can sure make it apear like the world is being run by the inmates in an insane asylumn

[cindybc]

Or like toddlers hitting each other over the head with their Popsicle sticks.

[Medusa]

It's old thread but interesting.
I'm also really scared of pain from srs and recovery (dilatation), I can't do pain to myself, even when my ears are tightened someone must push my earrings trough (ok today it was with drop of blood)

[AbraCadabra]

Well, my 2 cents... it is more "uncomfortable" (painful) then having an appendectomy.
I had both, so I can tell.

But, if one is enough motivated as I was... you're going through with it.
It's maybe a bit like wanting a child of your own..., so... you have to give birth... 

Axélle

[cindybc]

 At the hospital I was walking around the place with my IV rack visiting with the girls.  I had no complications it was sore for the first few days, the week after the recovery house when I got home I threw the donut cushion in the garbage because even if it was sore it was one heck of a lot more comfortable then that donuts cushion. I was out driving the car the day after I got home. The donut cushion was my biggest gripe. The second biggest gripe was all those boring dilatation in the beginning . Two weeks was still some bruised but all sensation was back and only a little dull pain with certain movements. But then everyone's pain threshold and healing is different

[MeghanAndrews]

I don't know, I got through the whole thing taking aspirin and I have a super low pain tolerance. I didn't think it was painful at all. There were times it was a little uncomfortable, and of course everyone differs, but I felt no pain. It was just uncomfortable.

[cindybc]

Same with me, it hurt a little when dilating. You'll learn all about how to do the dilating as you go so it is with the least discomfort

[Sandy]

I hear that Samuel L. Jackson is going to do a sequel to "Snakes on a Plane":

"More terrifying than any snake!

"More debilitating to the male ego than any accidental gay encounter!"

"Comes in more colors, sizes, and shapes than any reptile!"

"NOW, Samuel L. Jackson is back to do battle with terrifying plastic and latex!"

Universal Pictures presents "DILDOS ON A PLANE!"

Coming soon to a theater near you!!!


-Sandy(Ebert would give it 12,387,651,524,376 thumbs down!)

I looked at the date that I posted that.  Wow!  Has it really been that long?

At the time I was just 7 months post-op and down to dilating "only" twice a day.  Now I do it about once a week (if I remember).

I have a pretty high pain threshold and didn't find dilating itself to uncomfortable, but moving up to the next size dilator did pinch a bit.

The worst pain I had postoperatively was being forced to lay flat on my back for the first week following the operation.  I had a panic attack in recovery and almost tore some of my stitches.  Dr. Christine had me immobilized to prevent the possibility of further complications.  I couldn't sit up or even turn over.  As a result of lying in one position for five days, my back was in sheer agony.

In comparison, the SRS was about 4 on the pain scale, but my back was a 9.

-Sandy

[cindybc]

Odd, I was allowed to walk each day, a little. The most awkward thing about walking after SRS was that dang diaper packed with ice. And that darn surgical stent, glad that was only five days. The last time I was here I guess according to my last posting above was  January 21, 2009, How time do fly

[pretty pauline]

Hi Cindy, great to see you posting again, what really struck me reading through this old thread was the number of ''guests'' Kate, Rachael, Tinkerbell etc etc all gone, Rachael if its the girl Im thinking about could be so funny, my reply is in there somewhere.
What I could never understand, some girls saying SRS is a breeze, for me it was hideous painfull, for heavens sake, getting a penis and my nuts (testicles) removed wasn't pain free, then getting the packing removed I was in agony, then 2nd procedure, it was over a year before my new vagina was fully healed and finally looking and feeling normal, I was just so glad it was all over and finally being a complete woman.

[big kim]

I had my op in 1994 techniques and medication have changed since then, it was uncomfortable and unpleasant but not painful.Electrolysis now that was pain dialled up to 12

[cindybc]

Hi Pauline, nice to see you again. I am quite aware that different people's pain threshold differed in intensity. I guess I was just one of the lucky ones where I have a low pain threshold and a fast healer. Must be the Native American blood huh  I was out driving about with the car two weeks after the op.

I don't come here much, actually after these old posts died out it kind of slipped from memory.  Susan's didn't really enter my mind until I started getting emails from these old posts. But I will always be grateful for Susan's being here at the time I need others like myself to relate and share with.

Did you ever check out my site? "Not the Empath" it's been a while now, the fairy one? Well I morphed it into The Transformation now. Do you have skype? I just got it a couple days ago. Didn't know what marvelous of a little piece software was. Ore we could chat here, I would realty be interested in knowing how your doing hun.

[marshaevelyn]

I didn't have much main until the week after surgery when I was unpacked, then the Oxycotin came in handy for a while. For the most part I had little pain and it certainly was worth it to me. However, I just spoke to a woman who had her surgery 7 years ago with a prominent U.S. doctor and she has had nothing but pain since along with 3 corrective surgeries. BTW, that is not a knock against U.S. doctors, because I had mine done in the Philadelphia area but hey, any surgery of any kind can go wrong, I thank G_d mine went well.