Quote from: Floritine on March 27, 2016, 11:10:04 PM
Can you send me a link to the ladies experienvce your were talking about ...............
Cheers Tracy

Thanks Tracy, I already feel a lot better, here's the link: https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,193238.0.html

I also sent her a PM in the hope that she could set my mind at ease a bit.  This is her reply: "The pain I described relates to the anesthesia itself. If your surgery is performed like mine was, they'll be giving you multiple injections of a local anesthetic directly into your scrotum. At least one of those injections is going to hurt really, really bad. I won't lie, you need to brace yourself for it. The good news is that it's over really quickly, no more than 15 seconds. You can take 15 seconds of pain, right? "

Hi Patrice, thanks for the link as I just read the whole thread and feel how good my surgery went when I had it done two weeks today,
When I go for any operation I expect the surgeon thats doing it will be there from the start to the finish and not wonder off to do other things cause thats what Im paying for even if its a private surgeon in a public hospital, '
Also when I was doing reseach about having a bilateral orchiectomy everyone said they ether had general anaesthetic or epidural anesthesia,
And having the area frozen and having needles is a first as the doctors never said a thing about it and if they did I would of insisted on having a epidural or general just incase something goes wrong........

Cheers Tracy

Thanks a great deal Tracy. I must definitely do not want go through what she did if it really isn't at all necessary.  Her experience sounds slightly terrifying, lol.  Thank you again.

Love,
Pat

I am happily two days post op from my orchiectomy and very satisfied and mostly quite comfortable.  I did have a local anesthetic, as planned, with just enough sedation that I didn't have a care in the world and seemed to have forgotten most of it.  They may have sedated me a touch more since I rarely shut up   It took about a half hour and I feel joyfully free and in permanent status without those testy testes.

It doesn't have to be a big deal or require a general or epidural anesthetic.  Everyone having this level of surgery gets an IV and if you can handle that the rest is a piece of cake.   Nice to have it over and done, what a huge relief.

Quote from: Tessa James on March 30, 2016, 12:41:55 PM
I am happily two days post op from my orchiectomy and very satisfied and mostly quite comfortable.  I did have a local anesthetic, as planned, with just enough sedation that I didn't have a care in the world and seemed to have forgotten most of it.  They may have sedated me a touch more since I rarely shut up   It took about a half hour and I feel joyfully free and in permanent status without those testy testes.

It doesn't have to be a big deal or require a general or epidural anesthetic.  Everyone having this level of surgery gets an IV and if you can handle that the rest is a piece of cake.   Nice to have it over and done, what a huge relief.

Thank you Tessa for posting this. Have a wonderful recovery.  I can't wait to get mine done   , with much thanks to your input and that of other ladies here. 

♥♥♥,
Pat

Heya! I had an orchiectomy over 10 years ago now at age 24 so the memories aren't too sharp. My main priority was, well, I just didn't want anymore testosterone in my system to continue with potential masculinization.

I had the procedure done at a local hospital by a urological surgeon who does the procedure regularly for cis men living with prostate cancer (for which it is a relatively common intervention/treatment as these cancers are often androgen sensitive). He was competent enough. I'm sure other have mentioned it, but if you are at all considering vaginoplasty one day (or even if you aren't, you never ever really know where you'll be at) it's important for the surgeon to do a MIDLINE INCISION so as to keep the scrotal tissue most easily usable for subsequent vaginoplasty.

The procedure was done under local anaesthetic. I was fully awake. It took surprisingly long (it is a little bit more than just a slice/snip/snip/sew as you may be aware, almost an hour but felt longer. I wasn't in pain at all though I could feel a tugging now and then. The emotional release though of taking control of this 'situation' and of knowing that my body was free of T forever was just so uplifting I danced out of the OR (literally). Once the local anaesthetic wore off I was sore but nothing some OTC painkillers couldn't resolve. I was working 2 days later (as a waitress) and was okay though it was tough, and I had to wear skirts for a week, which was not my style at the time, LOL.

I wrote a Live Journal post about it back then. I'll see if I can find the link....here it is! It's a wonderful read and it conveys the experience quite vividly in its emotional cathartic release.

http://splinterjete.livejournal.com/16738.html


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Rebecca
Toronto, ON
35 years old
Transitioned socially 1997
Hormones since 2002
Orchiectomy - Toronto (Klotz) 2005
GAS (vaginoplasty) - Montreal (Brassard) 2008
FFS (forehead/nose) - Buenos Aires (Rossi) April 20, 2016!!!

Quote from: RebeccaM on April 02, 2016, 02:04:20 PM
Heya! I had an orchiectomy over 10 years ago now at age 24 so the memories aren't too sharp. My main priority was, well, I just didn't want anymore testosterone in my system to continue with potential masculinization.

I had the procedure done at a local hospital by a urological surgeon who does the procedure regularly for cis men living with prostate cancer (for which it is a relatively common intervention/treatment as these cancers are often androgen sensitive). He was competent enough. I'm sure other have mentioned it, but if you are at all considering vaginoplasty one day (or even if you aren't, you never ever really know where you'll be at) it's important for the surgeon to do a MIDLINE INCISION so as to keep the scrotal tissue most easily usable for subsequent vaginoplasty.

The procedure was done under local anaesthetic. I was fully awake. It took surprisingly long (it is a little bit more than just a slice/snip/snip/sew as you may be aware, almost an hour but felt longer. I wasn't in pain at all though I could feel a tugging now and then. The emotional release though of taking control of this 'situation' and of knowing that my body was free of T forever was just so uplifting I danced out of the OR (literally). Once the local anaesthetic wore off I was sore but nothing some OTC painkillers couldn't resolve. I was working 2 days later (as a waitress) and was okay though it was tough, and I had to wear skirts for a week, which was not my style at the time, LOL.

I wrote a Live Journal post about it back then. I'll see if I can find the link....here it is! It's a wonderful read and it conveys the experience quite vividly in its emotional cathartic release.

http://splinterjete.livejournal.com/16738.html


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Rebecca
Toronto, ON
35 years old
Transitioned socially 1997
Hormones since 2002
Orchiectomy - Toronto (Klotz) 2005
GAS (vaginoplasty) - Montreal (Brassard) 2008
FFS (forehead/nose) - Buenos Aires (Rossi) April 20, 2016!!!

Thanks Rebecca your experience sounds wonderful--ideal pretty much!  I'm also hoping for some sort of emotional lift from the procedure and a virtually brisk comfortable recovery.

♥♥♥,
Pat