Today was the big day for me getting my hootus stabbed and zapped a few thousand times in its first pre-srs hair clearing. Since I'm a big wuss and am also kind of on a short timeline for srs, I needed this done in a hurry and hopefully with a minimum of agony.
So I gave Irina at precision a call. I found her to be super accommodating, really friendly, and her staff is much like her. Trans people are a huge part of their business so no worries about acceptance here.
For those unaware, at this place they do complete clearings of hair from whatever you want while you're on drugs.
Now of course you're not completely under nor totally out of your gourd having conversations with your hallucination of choice, but what they do give you is perfect for this job. First they slather you down with topical anesthetic. Then Dr Zukowski (of FFS surgery fame) starts your IV, administers narcotics to keep you a bit sedated and calm, and then hits you with a bunch of local anesthetic shots to numb up where they're going to work. Due to the topical anesthetic, the shots of local are nowhere near as uncomfortable as usual.
Then the tech gets to work. And wow did she work, and work. She took a couple of short breaks but 5 hours later my largely virgin dingus was looking like an enraged sea creature with not a single hair left in the areas my doc wants cleared. It's currently still kind of numb but I'm in for some pretty serious discomfort tomorrow. The amazing thing was, electrolysis that would have had me in tears was largely painless and she cleared the whole stinking thing in the first session.
Now it wasn't totally perfect. As with most cases with local anesthesia it isn't 100% certain to numb everything, so I had a few places that weren't quite numb and my tech marked them. Dr. Z's anesthesiologist came in between surgeries to stick those, and it was smooth sailing from there. Those shots were pretty painful but believe me, they're worth it.
So if you're a big wimp, impatient, or both like I am this is a wonderful service. It wasn't cheap at just over $1200 for me, but it was so worth it. The worst part about this was having to go without caffeine for 2 days prior, I get crabby without my life giving coffee. (hail coffee full of caffeine, blessed are you among beverages...)
Just because I know somebody will wonder: nobody from precision nor Dr Z knows about me writing this review, nor am I being compensated for it in any way at all.
