So i was wondering how painful they really are....i mean i have nicked myself down there and almost cried lol.
What do you mean?
Lidocaine makes everything better. Although if you mean laser hair reduction, topical lidocaine doesn't do much to stop the oww (where with electro it's doable). Injected lidocaine makes anything possible although not many hair removal places are licensed to use injectable.
It's painful... Very, very painful.
And good luck finding someone who will inject anything in to your unit. I couldn't even get a prescription for topical lidocaine. No electro I've known offers this. It would require them to at least be a nurse practitioner or PA.
I just started to use a Venus Spa Breeze razor for near that area and other body areas. It has built in gel pieces that automatically apply gel as you shave. No shaving cream necessary. Just running water and you should be fine. Got far fewer nicks and better results.
I've been lasered down there...much less painful than anywhere on the face, imho. Pain is quite tolerable (Just be sure to keep the "boys" away from the laser's zap!)
I do not know about electrolysis.
Ok then...*note to self have shoulder doctor write new vicodin script before having anything done down south*
Lol
Eh, pain builds character.
You want to be a character, don't you?! :P
Quote from: Beth Andrea on May 29, 2013, 11:10:29 PM
Eh, pain builds character.
You want to be a character, don't you?! :P
Oh trust me i already am a character....heck several friends compare me to the puppet Peanut lol
pain leads to the dark side...
Quote from: milktea on May 30, 2013, 05:29:08 AM
pain leads to the dark side...
and the dark side has cookies... :D
I seem to recall that some SRS surgeons actually prefer you _not_ to get genital clearing prior to surgery. So maybe just something to keep in mind if that's the route you want to go.
Theo - True. Brassard recommends against it, for example; it makes the scraping/clearing efforts he makes during surgery less effective and increases the chances of regrowth afterward. He does say that if someone really wants it done, to make sure there's at least a year without regrowth after electrolysis, before GRS.
(From his informational packet : "Hair removal on external genitals before male to female reassignment surgery is debatable. Hair bearing skin on the penis shaft base with the one step technique stays outside on the neo vulva. The skin that will become the internal living of the new female genital is the rest of the penis skin, scrotal skin and a small « perineal flap » (a one square inch of skin that is located one side above the anal margin on the midline). If you want a perfect hairfree vagina you need to be sure that no regrowth of hair has occured on the area for at least one year after you have finished electrolysis on laser. Even then this does not garant that no hair will ever grow. The hair roots are either killed or weakened by electrolysis or laser. Those only weakered regrow. During surgery hair roots are killed with the cauthery on the scrotal skin that is used as a graft ( not on the « perineal flap » ) During surgery the hair roots that were weakered are less visible because they are much smaller than those found untreated areas and could be missed by the surgeon and regrow later. For this reason, in our experience expeditive laser or electrolysis treatments are worse than not having hair removal at all. In fact, we can get most hair roots during surgery if they were not weakened. Regrowth after our surgery is possible but very sparse. If you want no regrowth at all you will have to face hours of painstaking hair removal and a one year nonegrowth period. At this time we do not feel that hair removal is indicated.")