I have a very large empty scrotum having been castrated 4 weeks ago and want to know could i use an elastrator castration tool to remove just the empty scrotum or should i wait to see if it shrinks as my consultant says it will but how much will it shrink i dont know does anybody know this so i can make my decision.

Using that kind of tool would be asking for blood poisoning. If anything I'd think it needs to be snipped and stitched, kind of like removing a fold of skin after liposuction.

It wil shrink up to a wrinkled flap of skin given time. At least mine has but it is beter than five and a half years empty. I tried stretching it just now and I can only get it pulled down about an inch and it retracts imediately. Standing in front of a mirror with my penis lifted my scrotum looks almost flat. I presume pulling at it and playing with it will stop or reduce the amount it shrinks. Your penis will also shrink considerably without testosterone.

Well, as my plastic surgeon said, skin does not un-grow. So, I had it cut off. Look at obese people who lose weight, do they lose skin too?

I have not had testicles in my scrotum for 25 years. They retracted into the inguinal canals in my 20's , and never dropped again. I had them removed 4 years ago, and the scrotum, while small was still there, and on a warm day it would be like a turkey waddle.

I just had a scrotoplasty done. It is not so simple as just taking off the offending bag of skin. There are the inner sacks for eachtesticle, and some muscle fibers that help it to contract. Its really much more involved than I thought. I am 8 days post op, and while still brusied and slightly swollen,can see the result. Looks much better.

This is NOT something to try at home. To get things smooth requires way more than clipping off the scrotum. If you managed to get castrated, its highly likely that you can get a urologist to deal with the scrotum later. Be patient, and belive me, they shrink, but NOT enough.

Raymar

Its been nearly 7 months sense my orchiectomy, on cold days the scrotum is tucked up nice and neat, but on the warm days it does hang down a bit but not too much. I did call my insurance company this past week to see if a scrotum removal is covered. I think the woman I spoke with on the phone was a but put back by my question, however I was told it was Not covered by my insurance but if I want to talk to my GP about it maybe something can be done. I may do it but not sure yet.

Ken

Well its been 4 months now since my op and I have to say when warm mine is the same size and it gets in the way I dont wear underwear and if I do it still hurts all screwed up plus I dont like the look of it, it needs to go, I was told by my surgeon I would have to leave it 6 months post op in case I changed my mind and wanted implants which I never would but still only 2 months to go I cant wait. Nice and smooth and pain free. I have to say I love the new me and it will be even better when my scrotum has gone. Surgical is always the way to go nice and safe.

Ken,

You need to not talk with the insurance company, talk with the doctor. They are well versed in getting things covered that insurance would immediately refuse. Mine simply asked me if i was having issues with the scrotum. She winked, and I said that I got a rash in warm weather from sweating. Simple, and its now gone. Can't wait for the last of the stitches to come out.

Beautiful Raymar...I'm glad for you...It must look nice...smooches (teehee) Jackie

Hi, I was castrated in oct,2011, on the 29th. My bag has gone to about half the size it was b4 I was castrated, now the stumps from the cords are as big as small testicles and feel tender to touch, I wonder if any one else had there testicles removed and now have these large stumps from the castration, if you are castrated and they goin from your groin and not your scrotumthe remove the cords also but its much more invasive then the normal castration, they only made one incision in my bag and cut both testicles out from the same incision..Has any on been castrated where they removed the cords too??? I would have like my cords and bag removed at the same time but they said it was to much to do at one time..Any insight on that??? thanks jere, castrated by Dr. Aronkoff,10-29-2011:8 A.M. I now have them in a jar

Perhaps I have a useful insight, perhaps not. To find out which is so, I write the following...

I tend to agree with the view that separating the orchiectomy from subsequent "scrotectomy" and/or "chordectomy" surgery is a way of minimizing post-surgical complications when no cancer threat has been identified.

There is the chance that a person, post-orchiectomy, may discover a previously unrecognized desire for having "something there," such as testicular prostheses, and leaving enough in place while a person sorts this out after an orchiectomy allows for such a choice to be made, should it become a desire following orchiectomy.

For myself, I am rather indifferent regarding genital appearance, and was concerned about the fragile sense of "manhood" that I have long observed many men to have. Out of consideration for such men, some four years after my orchiectomy, I got a pair of silicone prostheses, which gave me a slightly less castrated appearance in public swimming pool showers.

Just over a year ago, in April of 2011, the left prosthesis and my body got into a fight with each other; a form of foreign body reaction that was profoundly uncomfortable, and I arranged with the hospital that put the prostheses in to get them removed.

Were it nor for the fragile masculinity vanity of many men that I have observed for most of my life, I would never have bothered with the implants.

To my mind, each person has a somwhat different life experience structure, and allowing for changes in body self-image following orchiectomy may be kinder than not doing so. I find no way to know for sure in advance of any really major life change how any particular person will adapt to such change.

Meanwhile, separating orchiectomy from subsequent surgical modifications is, in my view, optimal medical care, given the iffyness of orchiectomy outcomes.

At the time of my orchiectomy, I was a bioengineering doctoral student with a background in biology and medical matters sufficient that I understood the range of plausible effects of my being castrated, and the main effect I sought, reduction of cancer risk, appears to have actually happened much as I had hoped it would.

Before an event (say, orchiectomy) happens, the probabilities of the outcome(s) of the event are unknown because the event has not yet happened, though the range of probabilities can be estimated. Such probability estimates are before-the-fact (or a-priori) probabilities and are always greater than zero and less than unity; or, putting it another way, a-priori probabilities are significantly indeterminate; or, putting it yet another way, before-the-fact probabilities are guesses at best.

After an event did, or did not happen, probabilities for the event are after-the-fact (or a-posteriori) and the a-posteriori probability of a given event is zero if the event did not happen and is unity if the event did happen. For a given event, the a-priori and a-posteriori probabilities are mutually exclusive. Putting that another way, there is no way to know, without possible error, what a particular person may want to do about other genital tissue subsequent to orchiectomy. For this reason, a medical ethics perspective strongly, in my view, supports the separating of orchiectomy from "scrotectomy" and/or "chordectomy."

For someone who is getting gender reassignment surgery, the view I have described here is probably quite flawlessly irrelevant.