Isabel,

Welcome to the site.

This is a pretty old topic (2011) but thanks for sharing your experiences. There are a lot of people sharing their different dilation experiences and schedules. Can I ask who your surgeon or practice was?

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Once again, welcome to Susan's. Look around, ask questions and join in.

With warmth,

Joanna

PS I am moving this topic to Transsexual Talk:Post Op life

I dilated for 6 months after surgery (13 years ago now) and due to the immense pain I gave up on it. The pain was just too much, plus the whole bother and mess and endless infection I kept getting.
It was all a bit ridiculous really, and such a regime that you have to adhere to for the rest of your life is crazy to my mind. I wish someone clever would come up with a better way to get SRS without having such a massive downside to it.
All that happened is that I lost all my depth and width and now cannot have penetrative sex. Nothing else bad happened.
Of course I now have a male partner and bitterly regret giving up, but we make our own decisions and we have to live by them.