Can I ask, is it normal for phalo patients to have a suprapubic catheter on discharge? Aren't they supposed to have their urethra routed through their new appendage?
No matter what technique, you end up with a catheter. Even after the urethral lengthening part. There is a lot of bullshit that goes around that claims urine is sterile and blah blah, but uric acid is not conducive to healing and until it is considered fully healed, urine is not rerouted.
There are some low quality surgeons who tell the patient to keep the cathether in the neourethra and pee through it like some kind of FTM variation of the dilation devices? I have only read text complaints of this, and have never seen photos.
Every time a female kiwi proclaims that women don’t have smegma, I think “somebody please teach women to clean under their clitoral hoods.” Your dude is licking up smegma every time he goes down on you, ladies.
I’m glad someone else said this so I don’t seem like lunatic.
Female smegma builds up along labia minora and outside the clitoral hood. If smegma builds up in the clitoral hood, something is seriously going wrong that anatomy.
By male standards, most women would be considered to have phimosis - the clitoris even when erect does not fully emerge from the clitoral hood. It is not like the foreskin which can be pulled and manipulated.
"Rational" trans voice.... mmm
While what Newgent has reported about these horror shows surgery are certainly informative. She's actually kind of a cow and a big hypocrite herself. Based on her interviews and websites.
She basically lives on pure copium that so many of surgical complications are never, even partly, ever her fault. It's all medical system fault for allowing this to happen! How could the system ruins trans bodies?!
Presumably Newgent's wife left her after a botched hair bologna surgery and Newgent blames everyone around except herself. But I do wonder if there's more to the story... Because there's always a psychological reason why a couple break up when one trooned out. And Newgent trooned out in her 40s... Which is questionable enough on its own.
Not to say that there's no systematic issues, and I do understand that no decision is made in vacuum. But this level of shamelessness and lack of accountability is on the same level as any other delusional troons.
And even after botched surgeries that costed her millions, a wife, comfortable life that isn't in pain and ability to go outside. She still think that she's real and honest man. That her trans identity is legit and should be celebrated. While she goes about calling out young troons as being just trenders, her daughter included.
Last I heard, Newgent begrudgingly lives in her masculine, virilized body, and sticks to male pronouns out of convenience and not wanting to go through the legal name change shit again.
The daughter is a lazy enby "genderqueer/genderfluid", and earns scorn separately regardless of Newgent's troon status.
Newgent's story of [treatment following incident only brought worse effects, ruined marriage, accrued financial burden and drove person to insanity] is not troon - specific. It's a tale as old as time in industrial accidents and motor vehicle accidents.
As far as I am aware, Newgent did not ask to be trans any more than an accident victim asked for the accident to happen. I think it is reasonable Newgent feels "why me?", I would too if troonism struck me down one day in my 40s.
Don’t know what it says about me but the absolute butchering of the skin graft donor sites is the worst part of phalloplasties for me.
Even when the dick splits and goes necrotic all I can think of is how these poor people are probably having their arm function/strength inhibited. All the arm pics in thread show such a massive chunk of flesh taken from them, there’s no way the muscles or nerves are unaffected.
I guess because skin grafts are such an established procedure in medicine I expect that they have it all figured out, but then I see whatever the hell it is these butchers do and have to reassess everything. Surely regular skin grafts for other non-SRS procedures arent this extreme?
We have been performing a surgical procedure on all human beings for millenia. It's called cutting the umbilical cord to form the navel.
We still cannot guarantee a person an innie or an outie.
In other words,
all surgery is basically like this, whether it is visible or not. Most surgeons probably sigh in relief knowing that most people can't see their internal organs and compare with others.
I remember one FtM on youtube who said her hand goes numb if she's exerting/using her arm or clasping her hand.
They either overharvested or nicked the wrong nerve when taking skin and nerve grafts.
It leads to so many questions, what happens when it's really cold outside?
Depending on how bad the nerve damage, burning sensation or goes completely numb.
Does it get infected often?
No, not really, but if/when it gets infected, it will progress much faster.
What happens if anything touches it, like if you get some hot sauce or pepper on your arm?
They won't feel it in the parts where the nerves were harvested.
What happens if go into water?
It's just a bit sensitive, like if you had someone else flip your foreskin (for the ladies, when the clitoris is brushed by a fingernail).
Obviously, the problem comes from the fact that while someone being careless with your genitalia is momentary, the raw sensation is perpetual and will eventually drive anyone mad.
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Not even sure sympathy is what I’m feeling. Think seeing medical frankensteining is making me squirm.
