Lava. That's very descriptive indeed. Now imagine lava being injected into your shaft, nutsack, and worst of all, taint just in front of your anus. The latter is what causes spontaneous telekinesis where your whole body rises up into the air of the table just from the pain alone .... reminiscent of like Luke Skywalker trying to use brainwaves/TheForce to lift his spacecraft up out of the swamp where he first met Yoda.

Wow my electrologist won’t allow any numbing cream etc as she wants me to tell her if it’s painful!!! It’s fine, I think I could experience childbirth (wishful thinking) 🤪😷

The lidocaine that E3K uses also has epinephrine in it. So it gives you a kick of adrenaline and kind of sets off a fight or flight response. Whenever I get my first shots of a session, I usually can't keep my eyes closed very well. They twitch for about 10-15 minutes.

It's true. They told me it's common people can't sit still after injections because of it. Epinephrine improves the quality and prolongs the duration of peripheral nerve block

There's no such thing really as a "full clearing". I got a mass clearance which was a large number of follicles but by no means "full" as it's going to take many of these sessions. I guess I was there for about 3 hours. That's all she wanted to do for my very first session. She didn't want to totally kill me the first time or leave me crippled alterwards since I had a 2 hour drive to get home and my car is a stick shift so I still have to be able to work the clutch pedal.

If you'd stay for a couple days, you could do face one day and crotch the next. Even as much of a wuss as I am, I could probably handle that just fine.

Not gonna risk taking any ibuprofen with this darn coronavirus thing going on right now. Ibuprofen increases the number of ACE-2 receptors on the surfaces of cell membranes, especially lung tissue cells, and the primary way this virus invades cells to hijack it for use as a replication host is via exploiting the ACE-2 receptors as portals of entry. So it's probably a bad idea to be tossing out extra "welcome mats" for COVID-19, I'd think.

The machine she uses does employ blend... and she adjusted it for my skin/follicles and the speed she wanted to work at. The zapped hairs pulled easily from the follicles, indicated the follicles had been cooked just the right amount. 24 hours later, I had no problems with soreness, inflammation, "overcooked" follicles, etc. Just a couple small hematomas from the lidocaine injection spots. I think my electrologist knows exactly what she was doing and I'm not gonna interfere with her technique at all, except for one slight thing... I don't particularly care for the brand of injection needles she used, and didn't install a fresh injecting needle after drawing the lido thru the rubber vial cap (used a fresh needle at the beginning of the session) and poking the needle thru the cap really buggers up the sharpness of the tip... and a dull, messed up needle tip hurts a lot more because it kinda tears the skin going in, whereas a fresh new needle tip slides right into the skin with much less trauma and pain. If you look at the before/after of a hypodermic needle with a microscope after poking it thru the rubber vial cap to draw the liquid into the syringe, you'll easily see how that formerly perfect angled slice of a new needle tip gets all janked up badly and looks like a ragged, jagged torture instrument afterwards that's meant to shred flesh for max damage. So, since she was using the same 27 gauge x 1.25" needles as I use for injecting my hormones and have a large supply on hand.... I'm going to bring her a bunch of my new NiPro brand premium needles of the same size, and i also have a whole box full of really super smooth operating Covidien Monoject 3ml luer-lock syringes that I ordered by mistake, and I'll give her some of those too for use on me since the brand of syringe she used is another one that I happen to have a bunch of also, and it's not a premium brand... it's kinda notorious for being "herky-jerky" to operate smoothly and I noticed she had to press really hard on the plunger to get it moving, and it would suddenly inject a big burst of lidocaine at the very beginning, which I could really feel intensely.

Wow, 3 hrs....good for you girl !!!I can barely take 15 min with 2 Advil and 4% topical. I felt so crappy.....how am I going to do this. It hurt so bad. Any other tips? Thank you.☺️

Everywhere that's outside that will become inside needs the hair removed as much as is feasibly possible. Having hair growing inside your brand new hoo-haw is supposedly a whole new kind of hell, to avoid at all costs. Here's a template from Dr. Crane's website. Other surgeons use a very similar template. https://cranects.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/307/2019/05/Hair-Removal-Vaginoplasty.pdf

No pain, no gain. I was a bigger needlephobe than you... now I self inject my hormones. It's not really that big of a deal to do I.M. injections into your own upper buttock/hip for dorsal gluteus shots, pain is comparable to a mosquito bite... BUT, the injections of lidocaine into the "junk" area redefines the word pain a wee tiny bit. But it's temporary, that pain does go away. The pain of dysphoria doesn't go away, it'll last a lifetime and no amount of alcohol, drugs, unhealthy behaviors.... except proper transitioning meds/hormones/treatments fix it. I waited literally a half a freakin' century to properly address my issues and now that I am doing this, it's a game changer. Wish I could go back in time and kick my younger self in the ass to have started this much younger and earlier, but that's another story.

Laser will only reduce hair temporarily. It might kill off some of the follicles, but 2 years of laser on my facial hair is all but negated a year after my last laser treatment.

For GRS, since skin that's outside now will become inside afterwards, removing the pubes is mandatory. The last thing in the world you want is hair growing inside your new hoo-haw. Even though the surgeons will do a "follicle scrape" on that skin at surgery time, the less they have to do, the faster and less painful the healing will be, thus this is a mandatory part of the process.... just have to deal with it. So, if you want the results that all of us do, just toughen up and do it. Believe me you can. And just just 3 days later, I'm really liking the results of just that first session. All my pain is gone, there's just a little dark spot left from the hematoma on the side of the tubular unit, and the amount of hairs now gone is boggling my mind.

Do it.

Late in the afternoon until closing time on Monday.... screaming including the seven words George Carlin said you can't say on television?????

Sheepishly raising my hand. That would've been me, exhibiting my finest bravery and stoicism, lol!

I learned my lesson about not doing anything to pre-numb before getting there... had a bunch of disruptions before my drive down to the metroplex including harassment by an new transphobic pharmacy employee when I went to pick up my HRT refill, getting my car stuck in axle-deep mud in my driveway despite being an AWD Audi Quattro and realizing I'd left my phone at the Walmart pharmacy and fortunately my neighbor pulled my car out of the mud with his pickup, so it was almost 4pm before I got to E3K, driving waaaaaay above the speed limit and thought I was gonna get pulled over by DPS trooper who turned around and followed me closely for over a mile before suddenly U-turning and going after somebody else on going the other way on 287..... I was probably going close to 105 when I first got his attention, and fortunately he probably didn't get a good lock on my speed with his moving radar and by the time he was behind me I was driving like a good little girl. So by the time I got to Lewisville my nerves were kinda frazzled anyway and it probably didn't help that I caved into the urge and smoked a cigarette in my car driving down I35 just before turning off the exit in Lewisville.

Yeah, after the shots, the electrolysis itself wasn't too terrible, but like the earlier reference to the shots being like getting Lava injected, that's a damn good descriptive analogy.

Next day, the inflammation was pretty intense but tolerable. I stayed in bed all day though.

So, what was going thru your mind hearing me screaming? That had to be quite entertaining. I wish now I would've recorded myself with my phone. It'd be funny as hell to hear now, and play back to my friends while drinking. I've got a warped sense of humor sometimes, but it helps me cope. Lol!

Next clearing session, I'm definitely gonna do some pre-numbing, and I may or may not have some hydrocodones left over from my boob job surgery.

I have no insurance, it's all out of pocket.

There are better topical preparations than EMLA that are even available without a prescription. EMLA is typically 2.5% Lidocaine and 2.5% Prilocaine (which starts slower and lasts longer than Lidocaine).

Numbskin Plus is just Lidocaine, but it's 10.5%. That's twice the US limit for OTC Lidocaine (and 4X what EMLA has). I'm not sure how they get around the 5% limit, but it's made in South Korea. There are several compounding pharmacies will sell you "BLT" cream which is Benzocaine 25%, Lidocaine 5%, and Tetracaine 2%. That lasts much longer than Lidocaine alone.

E3K has a steller reputation in the electrolysis business... especially renowned for doing large-scale work on a clientele base with a large percentage of transfeminine clients, in fact they cater especially to us... we probably make up 50% or more of their business. I'm a rank beginner newbie electrologist in training myself, and have done some work on myself.... arms, eyebrows and face. The latter is not easy to do on yourself, even with a good, large magnifying mirror and a day when you've got especially steady hands. The flinch reflex is difficult to overcome, so I'll probably be getting some of that work done at E3K as well. I thought I might have been able to get to see how watching a pro do it on me, that I might learn thru "osmosis" something to help my technique improve a little faster too, but quickly forgot all about that... She was so good, proficient, and blazingly fast that the little I could observe just kinda boggled my mind. I'm still glacially slow with my electrolysis skills this early in my training, then ai also had to spend a great deal of the session's time with my eyes closed, wincing from the pain and not even wanting to look at the pinpoint sources where that pain was traumatically originating at... lol! Yeah I'm laughing about it and at myself now, but I was the most pathetic crybaby when it was happening. Oh, and BTW, I'm actually not in the DFW metroplex itself... I'm about 125 miles northwest in W.Falls. I lived and worked in the north Dallas, Richardson, Plano, Addison, Carrolton, Coppell, Lewisville area for a few years back in the 1990s though.

Sounds like perhaps mepivacaine or bupivacaine was used and not classic lidocaine if the numbing lasted 3 hours. Those burn even worse than lidocaine when injected just under the surface of the skin, and they cost a lot more money too. They are in short supply nationwide right now too, and inventories are needed for epidurals and dental and orthopedic surgeries

Actually E3K is in Lewisville.... Denton County, which was not yet under any kind of lockdown of medical treatment clinics all day Monday. E3K is qualified as a medical treatment clinic since licensed healthcare professionals are employed there (the lido injections require being done at minimum by a licensed nurse under the supervision of a licensed physician.)