Sorry folks, nothing kinky.
I'm just wondering about the yeast problem of post-ops and what the inside of a neo-vagina is like compared to a natural one?
If the surgery uses strips of pieces of penis and scrotum skin and lots of stitches or staples does it leave odd little places where yeast can establish and remain out of the reach of the various cleaning techniques mentioned? Or does the skin all join up and smooth over like a GG?
We know yeast breeds so fast that it only needs one cell to multiply a millionfold in a day so if there were odd little pockets that were impossible to clean then a yeast cell could live and multiply there forever.
I've never seen a film of a video camera looking at inside of a MtF - has anyone else?
I doubt a vid like that exists....but then again on some of the more dubious p#rn channels who knows?
Basic sensible hygiene and a device to douche yerslef is all you really need to keep things fresh.... that and a shower head....
Its worked fine for me for almost 20 years... :P
Dr. McGinn showed me the inside of mine using a speculum and a hand held mirror, and everything looks normal, healthy, and healing well. She said it would look normal to any doctor, except if the doctor wasn't familiar with post-op anatomy then early skin sloughing might be mistaken for a yeast infection, but it isn't. It looks normal to me, but I haven't looked up inside a whole lot of them so I'm just going to take her word for it lol
If you were operated on as long ago as I was, you will have been given either perspex or glass dilators... either way they are transparent and with a mirror they do allow a certain amount of self inspection... although obviously there is some optical distortion.
In theory, with modern bullet cameras, the camera idea wouldn't be that difficult to do - interesting idea.
Was it Masters and Johnson who spent a lot of time sticking cameras up vaginas - all in the interests of research of course.
Quote from: rejennyrated on October 08, 2010, 12:19:41 PM
If you were operated on as long ago as I was, you will have been given either perspex or glass dilators... either way they are transparent and with a mirror they do allow a certain amount of self inspection... although obviously there is some optical distortion.
In theory, with modern bullet cameras, the camera idea wouldn't be that difficult to do - interesting idea.
I'm a geek, IT and electronics, so you truly have given me an idea.
Quote from: peggygee on October 09, 2010, 10:02:34 AM
I'm a geek, IT and electronics, so you truly have given me an idea.
Being a geek like you, I find what your thinking, is truely disturbing.
doctors now use endoscopes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoscopy) to look into body cavities, and even perform minimally invasive surgeries with laparoscopy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laparoscopy) using a tiny video camera on the end of a telescoping rod.
Category 5 here is "Gynecology": http://www.laparoscopy.com/www/pictures01/pic_index.php (http://www.laparoscopy.com/www/pictures01/pic_index.php)
Some recto-sigmoid colon vaginoplasty is performed using laparoscopy, as explained on this site (which also sells vaginal dilators):
http://www.femistent.com/pages/understanding-your-condition/vaginoplasty-srs-grs.html (http://www.femistent.com/pages/understanding-your-condition/vaginoplasty-srs-grs.html)
Laparascopes can be purchased (http://www.stryker.com/en-us/products/Endoscopy/Laparoscopy/Laparoscopes/index.htm?cid=33&gclid=COGJ1K6pxqQCFQpf2godm0UVEQ) but I think they would be expensive. I'll settle for what my doctor tells me lol