madscientist1 (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2003 6:51 pm It seems that there is no way to painlessly castrate ones self. Burdizzo & banding or any other method of cutting off the blood supply to the testes causes painful swelling, as does injecting chemicals into the testes. I can only conclude that this is the body's way of preserving its reproduction system, since cutting off the blood suplpy to, say, a finger is not nearly as deeply painful.

I suppose that one can conclude from all this that humans, like all the other animals in the food chain, were put on Earth for the sole purpose of furthering the species. Otherwise, testicular atrophy could be easily accomplished, or might occur naturaly from simple lack of use.

Self castration is very risky and chances are you will be heading to the ER to have it finished like I did.

I tried my hand at banding myself because I knew that there wasn't any doctors in my area that would perform an orchindectomy on me nor did I have the funds for one.

Everything went well or so I thought for five days after, the sack mostly had dried up and what a stench that I could hardly conceal. But after closer examination I came to the conclusion that this was not going to heal and just fall off as first thought. So one morning I drove myself to the ER and had to embarasingly explain my reasons for trying to as the doctors say "Hurt Myself" I was promised that a Phyciatrist would be seeing me at some point after the operation. I woke up after the operation and was pretty much pain free and the nurses were the best.I don't know what they thought about me inside but to their credit they didn't show it.I had to stay overnight. Its been a week now and where they removed the dried up sack has been an open wound where as I have to twice daily change dressings. The open wound is suppose to close to gether by itself.

The Phyciatrist did come as they said and it was a woman, which I would prefer thinking a woman to be more understanding. Well as it turned out she had never talked to anyone like me before and didn't understand my feelings. It was a waste of her and my time. Next a social worker walks in the suggest I see a Phyciatrist on my own and promises to set me up with one that has experience in my type of behavior.

So to try to save money I didn't this will cost me thousands, compared to comparitvly less had I had the in office Orchindectomy done.

Andrew is right on when he says to have the procedure done by a qualified doctor.

Do I have any regrets. I don't, I acomplished my goal howbeit the wrong way.

Iwtbaw

Why will this cost you any money at all? In Canada, I admitted myself to ER for attempted self-castration, received two surgeries and have been seeing a psychiatrist for two years, which is all covered by our basic medical coverage.

SplitDik (imported) wrote: Sun Dec 28, 2003 11:36 pm Why will this cost you any money at all? In Canada, I admitted myself to ER for attempted self-castration, received two surgeries and have been seeing a psychiatrist for two years, which is all covered by our basic medical coverage.

However, this only applies to Canadian citizens, and both medical and psychiatric care vary from province to province.

Originally Posted by madscientist1

madscientist1 (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2003 6:51 pm It seems that

Andrew (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2003 8:06 pm there is no way to painlessly castrate ones self.

Exactly. Which is why I was q

uite happy to pay Dr. Spector to do it for me painlessly.

But the injections of pain killers are about the most painful things there are! Spector needed to give me six shots down there, and the first five were excruciating. After that, it was OK, even during recovery.

Since it does hurt so much there, it is amazing that some get cut with little or no pain killers or who actually do it themselves. This likely explains why I always failed in my own attempts to remove the boy bits--it hurt so much at the beginning of the cut that I could go no further.

Some EA members did succeed, though, and I am highly impressed.

Hugs,

Kelly

BossTamsin (imported) wrote: Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:35 am However, this only applies to Canadian citizens, and both medical and psychiatric care vary from province to province.

Well, it applies to Canadian *residents* such as "landed immigrants" and citizens. I'm pretty sure that emergency treatment and *prescribed* psychiatric treatment would be fully covered in all provinces.

SplitDik (imported) wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2003 1:35 am Well, it applies to Canadian *residents* such as "landed immigrants" and citizens. I'm pretty sure that emergency treatment and *prescribed* psychiatric treatment would be fully covered in all provinces.

Frankly, "only those residing in Canada" was more my point. Very few reading this forum are in Canada. Most reside in other countries, including a very large one just to the south, where an ER visit will cost money, an may psychiatric treatment.

The other point was that the quality/level of care will vary from province to province, especially in regards to the psychiatric treatment. (IE, GP/hospital sends you to psychiatric councelling. Pshrink manages to fit you in maybe 15 mins every month/every other month, after 3-6 month waiting period. That is the level of care in at least one province)

SplitDik (imported) wrote: Sun Dec 28, 2003 11:36 pm Why will this cost you any money at all? In Canada, I admitted myself to ER for attempted self-castration, received two surgeries and have been seeing a psychiatrist for two years, which is all covered by our basic medical coverage.

I wish this were free. But here in the US unfortunately a proceedure like this done in the ER is quite expensive. I didn't have medical insurance,and I dou'bt it would cover something self inflicted. When I finally get all my bills and tally them up I will post it here. After I wake up from shock that is Lol

Iwtbaw

Iwtbaw (imported) wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2003 1:26 pm I wish this were free. But here in the US unfortunately a proceedure like this done in the ER is quite expensive. I didn't have medical insurance,and I dou'bt it would cover something self inflicted. When I finally get all my bills and tally them up I will post it here. After I wake up from shock that is Lol

Iwtbaw

Yes please post it when you get it all talled up for it will be a good reminder to all that Dr Kemmel is not as bad is we think his prices are.

Iam so glad you found us here and thanks for your post

BossTamsin (imported) wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2003 11:49 am Frankly, "only those residing in Canada" was more my point. Very few reading this forum are in Canada. Most reside in other countries, including a very large one just to the south, where an ER visit will cost money, an may psychiatric treatment.

The other point was that the quality/level of care will vary from province to province, especially in regards to the psychiatric treatment. (IE, GP/hospital sends you to psychiatric councelling. Pshrink manages to fit you in maybe 15 mins every month/every other month, after 3-6 month waiting period. That is the level of care in at least one province)

Yeah, of course people should not travel to Canada looking for free care. Regarding the psychiatrists, in BC I get to see three people (psychiatrist, counsellor and case worker) for a full hour free per month.

SplitDik (imported) wrote: Wed Dec 31, 2003 4:41 pm Yeah, of course people should not travel to Canada looking for free care. Regarding the psychiatrists, in BC I get to see three people (psychiatrist, counsellor and case worker) for a full hour free per month.

Impressive. That's about 4x anything I've ever managed to get out of the BC government.