After nearly 10 years of waiting, it finally happened for me on Monday. Today (Thursday) I will get out of bed for the first time, which is going to be painful. Tomorrow my bandages come off. It’s all a bit unreal for me still. I kinda thought I’d never reach this milestone. The easy part of lying unconscious is done, now for the deliberate work of recovery.
i’m also curious about this as i might get the surgeri soon - what should i prepare for? how should i do the pelvic stretches and how much is the recovery time?
i’m intending for a full vaginoplasty, ideally one that’s self-lubricating and would have a similar microbiome + have good vasculature (all of those would help in getting a uterus transplant), but yeah.
I got peritoneal pull-through which is self lubricating kinda. It’s not in response to anything and it isn’t lubey-lubey but it does keep me more or less self cleaning and I think helps with biome stuff. Recovery I was back on my feet pretty quickly, like attempting walking after only a day and going on slow paced mile walks in under a month. This post and the linked previous posts will tell you a lot about what I was going through: https://lemmy.zip/post/39222527