Again good luck, I hope it all goes well, and let us know how it went. It would also be good to hear your thoughts after its all healed and settles down.

Best wishes mate.

Good luck. Are you planning to have your scrotum removed as well.

No, no plans to have scrotum removed. Let's see how this goes first.

Thanks for all the well wishes. One week from today!

Good luck and a speedy recovery, though not for the testes!

Good luck and Godspeed. You will be in my prayers.

Hey all, thanks for the well wishes. I was castrated just before noon today. It was easy enough! Doc left a drain in each incision that I'm to remove when I change the bottom layer of bandages tomorrow. There's a lot of drainage, but no swelling or bruising so far. I've been using ice for 20 minutes on, 20 off. I can tell the anesthesia is wearing off, but felt ok after a nap. Hit me up if you want to hear more.

Congratulations and have an quick and easy recover!

Please share your recovery experiences with those like me, who are interested in fallowing in yours and a lot people here, footsteps in becoming "real" eunuchs.

Thanks.-Wenn

I hope that you have an easy and speedy recovery

Yes, hope you have no issues and are soon healed.

Thank you for everyone's support. As you all know, I was castrated by a urologist last Thursday morning. The procedure was under local anesthetic -- he injected the cord and then the testicle before removing each one -- so I was awake and watched most of the procedure. The whole procedure lasted maybe a half hour once it started. I know I always wanted to read other's accounts, so I thought I'd post mine.

The nurse first came in and dry-shaved my scrotum with a disposable razor -- used a wad of tape to clean up the hairs. She washed me down with betadine and put a sterile blue paper sheet over the whole area, and went to get the doc.

The doctor came in and said "are you sure!" and I said I made up my mind a long time ago. He told me he did "hundreds" of these in his first job at a V.A. hospital back when the first procedure after diagnosing anyone with prostate cancer was to castrate them, so the procedure should be easy. He first cut a round whole over "the area" and started with the right one. The most surprising part of the entire procedure was how quickly he started cutting. He had a very large syringe of anesthetic, and he injected most of it in my cord next to my penis and the rest in several jabs in and around my testicle. He had my right nut in his left hand when he was injecting the nut, sat down the syringe, picked up the scalpel, and started slicing across the front of the nut almost immediately. I figured he would wait to let it get numb, but I guess he didn't need to -- I felt nothing. He cut through the layers with the scalpel, and then used the scissors to cut through the "pesky" membranes across the nut, and it then just popped out. The scrotum and other layers fell away when he finally had the nut in his hand. The only somewhat painful part of the procedure was when he separated the parts of the cord on each nut. He shoved the end of his scissors through the parts of the cord, separating it into three parts. His nurse clamped the two big parts, and he left the third smaller one (the vas deferens?) free. He asked me again if I was sure, and when I said "oh yes" he used the scissors to cut each part of the cord, with the vas last. He put the nut on a tray at the end of the table over my feet where I could see it. He cauterized the ends of each part of the cord -- warned me it might hurt a little, but it didn't -- and then started sewing me back together. The actual cutting only took a couple of minutes, but the sewing took several. I watched the cutting, but laid back and relaxed through the sewing before he started on the left one. He stitched and stitched on the end of the cord, cauterizing along the way. He then stitched the internal layers, and then the scrotal skin. Each incision was about an inch long. And then he did the exact same thing with the left side starting with the injections and ending with stitching. The left side went exactly like the right, though he said the left one was smaller and there was more scar tissue around that one. The cord parts on the left were much harder to separate and hurt a little more than the right. He left a drain in both sides, which he stitched to a layer of gauze.

I felt no pain as I got up off the table and walked to get dressed in the bathroom. I felt fine when I left the clinic, but felt a little woozy on the way home. The worst pain I had the first day and night felt like gout or gas in my stomach, but it went away the second afternoon. I had a lot of drainage the first two days. The drains came out the first night, but that didn't stop the draining. Most of it was clear fluid with some blood in it. The put a couple of layers of gauze over my scrotum and put a jock strap on me on the table. I changed the gauze very couple of hours inside the jock strap the first day. He said I could shower after the first day, which I did. After that I just wore tight black underwear with gauze over my incisions.

On the fourth day after the procedure I probably overdid it by walking around too much, and the lumps on the ends of my cords really swelled that evening. I was supposed to go back to work on Monday, but stayed home again because of the swelling. Until Sunday, the right cord was much more swollen than the left, but the left far surpassed the right on day four. I had a lot of drainage out of the left side, and when it was still swollen on Tuesday I went back to see the doctor. He said I had nothing to worry about -- that was just part of the process. He said to just take it easy and it would be fine. Sure enough, he was right. By Thursday the swelling had reduced by half, and I went back to work like nothing had happened. This morning -- one week and a day after -- the swelling is down to about the size of when I had testicles, though it's still draining a drop now and then on the left side.

The oddest thing about the swelling is that it hasn't been fluid in the sac necessarily, but "lumps" on the ends of the cords. I've heard that Dr. Arnkoff makes patients look at the testicles to make sure they know he took them out, and I understand why. The lumps don't feel like my old testicles -- and I watched him remove them! -- but they could definitely be mistaken for them. I've been told that this all eventually shrinks to nothing and the cords go away. I'm just hoping that happens. It seems like I'm on my way!

I've been asked several times, and yes, I was taking HRT before, and will continue taking it. I've had raging morning wood since the procedure, probably more than before. I "test drove" the system a couple of times on days 4 and 5, and everything seems fine. I'd say I have the "eunuch calm" that I've heard about. I've slept harder than I ever this last week, even with the incisions in my scrotum. I think it has to do with no longer obsessing about knowing they're still there and trying to figure out how to have them removed, which is what I thought about almost every evening before as I was falling asleep.

If anyone has any questions, please send me a private message. Would love to chat more about my procedure.

Again, thanks for everyone's good words of support and encouragement.