Surgery complete

[Hash (imported)]

Had my "reroute" surgery (pernieal urethostomy) yesterday and I'm trying to find the best position to sit while writing this. I'm home but catherized. I'll tell you what, waiting for the surgery (it was an hour and a half late) and being catherized was/is the worst part of the whole surgery. My urologist walked me through it, a "Y" type incision would be made and was, then the urethra would be opened and stitched to the pernieal skin. No, the surplus scrotal skin I have remaining was not removed. I remember being wheeled into the OR and having the anesteiologist (that's not the right spelling, but it's 6am) tell me a few things. I remember the urologist getting the stirrups ready and pulling up the gown, but that's it. Next thing I remember was her, my urologist, calling my name. Boy coming out of that anenistia is bad too. Not only was I groggy and hungry, I had nausia and I was sick to my stomach. While in recovering I did look down below but all I could see was my penis which had shrunk to the size of a raisin, ok, maybe it was bigger than that, but this seems typical. During my orchiectomy with Dr. Kimmel, my penis near disappeared. This morning it's gained some size/girth back, though it feels weird. What was strange a few times yesterday was the feeling of having to urinate and it was coming from my whole penis, I mean, the urge to pee came directly from my whole penis as if urination is tied to the penis itself. Strange. Right now the only thing I'm thinking about is getting through the next 5 days. The earliest that I can get this catherter out is Tuesday and it can't come soon enough for me. I really have great respect and compassion for those who must self catherize. Just another note, my doctor seemed rather pleasant yesterday, probably due to the hospital atmosphere and being around other people/friends. She is still steely though and suspicious of me, but I'm just glad it's over. No, I have not looked at what she did, number one it's bandaged and two, I'll need to find a hand held mirror. I'll hope in the shower soon and take a looksy. Night or morning.

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[Caith721 (imported)]

Hash, I'm very glad to hear from you. That's too bad about the excess scrotal skin, but I'm happy you're back with us and posting. Take it easy and let everything heal up. I know you'll be VERY happy to have the catheter removed, but that's no walk in the park, either.

[Hash (imported)]

Hi Caith,

Yes, it's good to be back. I just finished showering and washed down below as per instructions. I felt around with my fingers and it feels as if there's a huge indentation and the small amount of scrotum is bunched up like a little ball. Not what I wanted, but maybe I can use this to have the scrotum removed completely. When I see my urologist I'll tell her I'm dissatisfied with the outcome and maybe she'll listen to me and remove it. One can hope. Thanks again for your input. I did hear that having a catheter removed can be painful, ouch, but better out then in!

[hazbalz (imported)]

Hash, don't worry too much about the catheter being removed. Its not that bad. There's a little balloon on the end and when it deflates the vibration is a bit of a weird feeling, but its not that bad. Congratulations on getting what you wanted and sticking with it.

[jako9999 (imported)]

Congrats and trust me the catheter will just slide out just relax as your muscles will try and contract as it comes out and thats what hurts.

[AtomicMush (imported)]

Hi,

Congrats. My sack is exactly as you describe after my surgery. Put A-D ointment or another vitamin E suave on the scar after it heals to keep it soft. I had a cath for a little over 3 days. Removal was interesting sensation but not painful. The whole removal process is more mental than physical discomfort. The nurse had me inhale, hold it, then big exhale as he pulled it out. Helps divert attention. May have minor stinging the first pee, but for me it was a non-event. Now, wearing a cath for three days was the unpleasant part. Going to ask the doc about the empty baggie, and what can be done. The scar tissue is ugly, and a little hard.

[smoothie36 (imported)]

I had no trouble finding a plastic surgeon to remove my scrotum. The comment was, yes, that's what we do, remove excess skin.

[Losethem (imported)]

OK, so you had this done as a step towards penectomy or did you have other reasons aside from urine splashing everywhere due to the head split? I tried to patch this together in the other thread you had but it wasn't immediately obvious.

I hope you're healing well and I look forward to hearing how this latest arrangement of your anatomy works out for you.

--LT

[moi621 (imported)]

Firstly, Thank You for sharing.

Especially the feeling of needing to urinate in the now, uninvolved penis.

Are you going to go for penectomy too? Seems like you have a wonderful

unique sexual organ uninvolved with urination, except when you feel it is.

DO NOT complain or that doctor minimally may be less willing to do another such surgery. Consider thanking her, especially if everything works okay. Diplomacy.

Possibly speak of a revision. Consider the final result will probably not be apparent for months as tissue swelling goes down and skin tissue adapts, the shrinkage of redundant skin.

Again, thanks for sharing.

Moi

ditto, as long as they remember to deflate the balloon at the end of the catheter,

removal should not feel painful. Maybe "odd", but not painful.

[Hash (imported)]

Thanks for all of the information about catheter removal, gives me great comfort knowing what to expect and that it won't be that bad. Currently I'm just waiting until Tuesday when the cath will be removed. Actually took a couple sick days off, had a ton of them and never used them so why not. As for penectomy, I go back and forth on it, I'm not as highly motivated to have my penis removed right now. I had the reroute surgery just in case and also because of urine splashing around while peeing. Couldn't use a urinal without getting urine all over the place, even if I tried to pinch the glans somewhat, it caused a mess. Sitting down was better, but still messy. As for penectomy, what happens after you're castrated is that you lose most if not all sexual desire and along with that is the desire to modify or remove one's penis if you don't use any testosterone. For me as I've said multiple times, I can no longer get my testosterone to go any higher, if I use more testosterone then I normally have done for so many years, it has a reverse affect, turns into estrogen and my penis go into hiding. It's pretty small and prepuberty like to me, but I was not the least bit embarrassed about it. Anyway, when my estrogen rises, I don't even care about the Eunuch Archive, so just saying that's why I'm not highly motivated to remove my penis, just don't have the desire or the will to go through with it even though now, it wouldn't really matter. But never say never, who knows what one might do in the future. My castration desire was so strong and compelling I could not stop thinking about it, overwhelmed me and I could not stop myself. It was strange.