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- Sep 12, 2018
Implants are also an infection risk, because bacteria can grow on the implant, yet the human immune system is not designed to patrol foreign objects.a lot of people with fucked up knees and hips spend years putting off getting an artificial knee or hip because the earlier you get it, the more likely it is that they are going to have to replace the whole fucking thing 10 or 15 years from now. artificial knees and hips are much simpler than an artificial erection machine. the joint replacements go where a joint used to be and fulfill the same function as the joint. The artificial boner is put inside a body part that is also completely artificial and has no anatomic function, a weird/unprecedented thing to do. These people are replacing their functional reproductive anatomy with pumps and flesh quilts and scar tissue in their 20s and 30s. I would bet good money that there will be absolutely nothing left of these phalloplasties as the patients age. I don't know wtf any of them expect.
This is fucking terrible, and entirely expected. This would be normal if somebody had a nasty skin injury, and had to loose a large chunk of flesh. The insane munchie who finally had her legs cut off was dealing with this midway through her ordeal.This TiF is complaining about her arm graft scar after 2 years.
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"It's just so frustrating to have had surgery YEARS ago and still be dealing with complications. I don't regret doing it, but wow, I had no idea what I was getting myself into."I had RFF done two years ago and have had so many complications. One thing that's still happening to me is that the hand of my donor arm still swells up and hurts. Sometimes it happens during/after exercise, but I wake up all the time with my hand swollen or it happens randomly during the day. I get pretty severe pain in the back of that hand too, especially when flexion my wrist and gets even worse if I flex my fingers. It feels like something is very very tight when I do that, but I have as much range of motion as my other wrist/hand/fingers. Like the tendons are stuck down or something.
I had a lot of delayed healing with my arm graft and the whole thing still feels really stiff and locked down. I've done tons of physical therapy, massage, vitamin E, and been to multiple doctors about it as well as my surgeon many times.
My doctor and I have discussed fat grafting in my arm (not so much to bulk it up because it's filled very well, but to hopefully peel the skin up a little more inside and create some space in there). It's just so frustrating to have had surgery YEARS ago and still be dealing with complications. I don't regret doing it, but wow, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had this happen, and anything they were able to do? I do stretches, massage, ice, exercises for the fingers etc.
d00leys is nowhere to be seen despite the fact that she usually comments on everything. Only comments are other TiFs with similar issues.