Recovering from my orchiectomy + scrotectomy yesterday! 🎠 AMA! I feel freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
No questions, just wanted to say you look stunning, that tattoo is fucking sick, and you're killing it!
I wish you a speedy recovery.
Plus one on THAT!
Ty y'all are too kind
Agreed 😁
Ty omg
Tyvm my friend!
What made you decide to get a scrotectomy with your orchi?
Sure! First of all I took about a year and a half considering what I wanted to do as far as bottom surgery, and I concluded that I didnt want a vaginoplasty, so I have no need for the scrotal skin.
also my dysphoria in the past led me to physically abuse myself down there pretty intensely for many years, so the skin was scarred stretched out etc and overall just not anything I could see as feminine. It just felt super hyper male.
As a frame of reference my scrotum and testes were about the size of a softball or grapefruit.
I totally feel that. I had the “bag of worms” down there that made it appear I had 5 testicles bigger than any mans. I’ve never been able to tuck the left side. You’ll do anything to get rid of it. I’m so happy for you!
Ty very much!!!!! ❣️♀️
Oof. My varicocele isn't that bad, but still prevents me from tucking much.
Wow. I’ve always wondered why I find it too hard to tuck.. I have that too
Oof, sorry, friend.
Thanks for answering! 🙂 I'm on my own journey trying to figure out what I want. I'm almost positive I don't want full depth. I'm not sure which way I'm going to end up going, either just an orchi or partial depth. I'm hoping to have a better idea by the time I get an orchi, hopefully later this year.
I know a trans woman that got a " high and tight " and she is extremely satisfied. Got everything she wanted visually out of it and didn't really have much interest in depth. :) Best of luck on your journey
It’s also possible to get a vulva/labiaplasty with partial depth while keeping your penis, which would kinda be in between the two procedures you mentioned being interested in. Something to consider, perhaps.
Congrats! I’m two weeks post op orchiectomy myself.
Ty
I know this is off topic but your tattoos are beautiful . Oh and in case no one told you, you should get some frozen pea bags because the swelling/bruising in the groin area after an orchi is pretty severe.
You better believe I got some frozen pasta and peas in a bag under my stuff right now my friend :)
yeah I actually was kind of brought to tears last night from the pain of the swelling. The giant incision that runs from mid perennium to mid penis shaft looks terrifying for now, but the only pain I have is from swelling and the cords they cut, in my lower abdomen area.
"Praise be to you goddess oxycodone times two!"
Thank you for the compliments on my tattoos. The sleeve is done by Max Estes in Portland Oregon and I highly recommend him. The shop is great respects gender pronouns, I love it there.
I don't think I will ever be brave enough to get tattoos myself but I have always really them when they are done well. Good luck on your recovery and get used to waddling like a penguin for the next few weeks :)
I'm still learning about the "botton surgeries", I hear lots of names in this subreddit but idk what they mean exactly. Could you explain to me or share a link that lists down the types of surgeries and what do they do?
Sure. Bottom surgery is just a term for any kind of gender confirming surgery below the belt. It's not specific to a particular surgery or gender.
Trans women have options like a full-on vaginoplasty (usually a penile inversion but there are many techniques to do it), an orchiectomy where they just remove your testicles but leave the skin, or you can add a scrotectomy where they remove that skin, which is what I did.
A trans man can also get bottom surgery, and it's called a phalloplasty, were they create a penis from other skin on the body. A hysterectomy would also be considered bottom surgery for some trans men. Or the combination of these things. I don't know much beyond that about trans male surgeries.
Feel free to add to this list or correct me if I've said something mistaken.
To add on: for trans men there's also the option of metoidioplasty. Taking testosterone enlarges the clitoris and can make it look more like a penis, so you can free the clitoris from the surrounding tissue to make it basically a micropenis and there are options for urethral lengthening, removing/closing up the vagina, adding testicular implants, etc
and after meta you do still have the option to get phallo later on
Ty!
There are also some other less common options for trans women/transfeminine people. These are penile preservation vaginoplasty/vulvoplasty, which creates a vaginal opening/canal and/or labia, while removing the testicles and/or scrotum, but keeping the penis. I put a lot of dashes and “and/or”s because there are a lot of different options for people to choose from. I saw one trans women, for example, who got an orchiectomy and had her scrotal tissue shaped into labia, without getting a vaginal canal or removing her penis. And I’ve seen people who have gotten a full vaginal canal, labia, and kept their penis. I think it’s so cool to see all of the different options people have to do what feels best and most comfortable to them!
I had mine a month ago,, I kept the skin as I might have a vagionplasty later but for now soooo happy , now that the swelling and pain has diminished I look and feel so much better when wearing tight fitting cloths
Congratulations! And of course, an obligatory mention that your hair and tattoos are super awesome.
I do have one question, if you don't mind! I'm not necessarily worrying about which specific surgeon you did your orchi with, but when you were thinking about it, did you decide to go with any specific surgeon in the same way that many people pick surgeons for GCS/FFS, or did you just decide to go with whoever was the most accessible to you? I'm trying to figure out who I might want to do my orchi and trach shave with right now, and I'm sort of overwhelmed trying to sort through the crazy number of people that do them - but I'm also sort of wondering if it even matters, given that those procedures are less complex and have fewer cosmetic components than most other surgeries.
I will say for an orchiectomy, not considering a scrotectomy, is one of the easiest surgeries out there and I really wouldn't worry about using a specific person as long as they specialize in urology.
Okay! That's good. I do want a scrotectomy, so I'll have to think about that, but it's good to hear that at least part of it really isn't complex.
When I started this process I had Kaiser Permanente as insurance, and they only allow you to work in network. In other words I had no choice whatsoever of who was going to be working on me.
Ah! Okay. Thanks so much, and I hope you have a speedy recovery!
Would you mind saying who your surgeon was?
Dr Chouhan at OHSU in Portland, Oregon. I was her seventh scrotectomy and it looks like a clean job!
This doctor?
Yep
Thanks, I added this post to the surgery wiki
https://www.reddit.com/r/TransSurgeriesWiki/wiki/srs/usa#wiki_jyoti_chouhan
Cheers
Very stunning
Glad to hear that you're feeling so much better, take good care, honey!
❣️♀️🎠
I hope recovery goes well. I had my orchiectomy this morning. I had considered a scrotectomy too. I was 110% sure on the orchie I wasn't there on the scrotectomy, so I think I made the right decision.
I’m new to reddit so I don’t know how long these go but, my question is: do you have a good pile of books to read during recovery and ‘social distancing’?
My girlfriend wants to get the same procedures and we were wondering what a good starting point to start the process. I would assume meeting with the doctor first?
Have a look in the wiki
https://www.reddit.com/r/TransSurgeriesWiki/wiki/srs/introduction#wiki_orchiectomy
this has a lot of great information! thank you
Yeah you want to meet with a doctor, it's pretty cut and dry, so you shouldn't have much of an issue, although in my case I ended up getting an infection and having to have a second surgery; I just now had the wound finish healing.
Depending on where you're at you will probably need a note from your therapist or primary care doctor. Barf.
great thank you! any specific kind of doctor like a urologist?
Typically you would need to be referred from your primary care doctor anyway, and they would know better, and possibly surgeons who work with trans people specifically.
But yes, I used a urologist in Portland Oregon, at OHSU.
I know right? Not enough tho is it, its like "ok","good first strep..." now then ...
This is my last trans surgery besides a BA, personally.
Some of us only want orchiectomies as far as bottom surgeries go and some of us want nothing at all, and that's okay.
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