Did anyone else experience this? I had my surgery a month ago, and my brain hasn't caught up yet, so it still thinks it can sense a penis there. This is especially noticeable if I get turned on, when everything down there gets suffused with blood, and my brain tries to tell me I have an inside-out erection (which is of course more or less sort of true, but...)

How long can I expect this to go on?

Not a ghost penis more like a ghost foreskin as electric shocks went through it on my surgery its my labia


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I guess it makes sense, the brain needs to build new neural pathways, etc.

The title of this thread conjures up some interesting imagery, and is a great name for a scary movie...

It took me until about 6 months before my nerves were "mapping" the right location to my brain and when it happened, it was a "What The Hell" moment since I "knew" things were goofy and had ignored them some what and then basically stopped even thinking about them, and just doing my daily chores as medically ordered.  One day it woke up and I knew exactly which part was where.  It took another 6 months for my clitoral area to become "predictably" sensitive to stimulation, but for a few weeks before that, even sitting on a real comfortable sofa seat, put a silly grin on my face, I am glad the hypersensitivity has backed off, but that was a wild few weeks.

Medically speaking it is a case of Phantom Limb Syndrome. It should fade over time. 

That's weird.  I've had a "phantom vagina" since like forever.  It's like my brain is expecting "girl parts" that aren't really there.

My surgery was over a year ago... and I still have this same feeling every now and then. Especially with itching... and not being able to find the place to scratch it. 

Quote from: Jill F on June 10, 2014, 01:52:56 PM
That's weird.  I've had a "phantom vagina" since like forever.  It's like my brain is expecting "girl parts" that aren't really there.

Same in reverse.

Quote from: LordKAT on June 10, 2014, 08:32:09 PM
Same in reverse.

So, I'm not crazy?  I don't think I've ever admitted to that one.

This never really gets talked about much here, so I assume we're an exception and not a rule? I wonder how common this is with transpeople.  I mean, there have to be people here who have never experienced this feeling and others who have.   So now I'm wondering again now how weird I am.

Quote from: Jill F on June 10, 2014, 10:56:32 PM
So, I'm not crazy?  I don't think I've ever admitted to that one.

This never really gets talked about much here, so I assume we're an exception and not a rule? I wonder how common this is with transpeople.  I mean, there have to be people here who have never experienced this feeling and others who have.   So now I'm wondering again now how weird I am.

I get this a lot with my lower half. I used to feel the same thing about my chest too prehrt. Its so strange and sometimes comforting in a way.

WOW! This is interesting.  I didn't experience it.

Quote from: Jill F on June 10, 2014, 10:56:32 PM
So, I'm not crazy?  I don't think I've ever admitted to that one.

This never really gets talked about much here, so I assume we're an exception and not a rule? I wonder how common this is with transpeople.  I mean, there have to be people here who have never experienced this feeling and others who have.   So now I'm wondering again now how weird I am.

There have been a few guys who admit feeling this way. You are not crazy at all.

Quote from: LordKAT on June 11, 2014, 07:38:03 AM
There have been a few guys who admit feeling this way. You are not crazy at all.

Well, I'm at least not crazy for that reason.

Crap, did I derail another thread?  Sorry OP.  I do that.  Stupid ADD...

Pff, it's all interesting .

I'm seconding the ghost penis thing from a dude here. Had that issue since I hit puberty so you're not going nuts. Worst kind of dysphoria if you ask me. Pretty much feeling like you have it but don't.

13+ months after SRS and I still have it regularly.