6 Weeks Post Stage 2 RFF Phalloplasty

This week has been the most active I’ve been since surgery. We were advised there was a cyclone on the way – so the preparations began! My wife is currently out of town, so I had to do all the prep myself. This included putting all the outside furniture into the shed, moving gas bottles around, checking stores and preparing our little bunker room. Thankfully (although slightly annoyingly because it was my first cyclone) it passed by us. Unfortunately it hit a little to the south of us and smacked a good few towns. 

If anyone wants to donate to those affected by Cyclone Debbie, authorities have advised that places like GIVIT are organising donations. A google search will yield results of more places to donate. 

On the whole, I’m feeling better again this week. I’ve been able to sleep on my side for the past few nights – which has meant a better quality of sleep. 

I saw my GP again this week, and we’re going to do a trial of me going back to work on half days. I’m starting to get twitchy at being home all the time, so it’ll be good to get back – I just remember how exhausted I was last time.So Monday – Wednesday is my trial, and then I fly to Brisbane Wednesday afternoon in time for my appointment with Hans on the Thursday. HOPEFULLY… This time I’ll get the catheter out.

In my readings, I found a website that talks about SPC management. It’s not written from a trans perspective – but I don’t really think it needs to be. You can read it here

Movement

As I mentioned before – I’ve been doing a lot this past week, and it’s been good to really see what I can do. There wasn’t much pain at the time, but once I’d finished and it was time to just sit back – I was in a fair bit of discomfort. That’s lasted a couple days now, but seems to be easing thankfully.

Driving is getting easier as time goes on too. At the moment the seatbelt sits directly over my SPC site, so it can be a bit uncomfortable, but changing gears and the driving experience in general isn’t too bad at all.

Full Thickness Skin Graft (FTSG) Site

Continuing to heal well. I don’t have any tape at the moment, so I’ve had an opsite dressing covering it for the past week. This was fine until I removed it a couple days ago – and now my skin is voicing its displeasure at the tape.

I saw my OT yesterday and spoke to her about the healing. She’s agreed that I can start using silicon and vitamin E creams/oils – so I’ll start doing that!

Phallus

No real change here this week. Everything is continuing to heal and reduce in swelling. 

Movement is getting better too. The more I move him around, the less it feels like things are pulling.

Scrotum/Perineum

The main part of the swelling has finished now, so it’s just down to the minor swelling stuff now. I’m quite pleased with how things are looking at the moment, but I can’t wait to see what the scrotal implants will do for me.

I’m not leaking anymore at all which is awesome, and obviously means that I no longer have to wear pads.

The granulation tissue around my clitoris is still there. I spoke to my OT and were trialing Mepilex AG on it to try and at least stop anymore from growing. 

5 Weeks Post Stage 2 RFF Phalloplasty

I’m feeling better about everything this week. It took a couple of days to get my head back in the right place, but I’m there. I’ve got myself into somewhat of a routine these days, so it was easy just to slip back into that. 
The oozing has slowed considerably, and I don’t really even need pads anymore. I just make sure I give my body enough time to air out. It seems to be working, so I’ll keep doing it. 
I’ve started getting some bladder spasms again when trying to go to the loo. This is unpleasant, but thankfully nowhere near as bad as it was with the urethral catheter in. 
I’ve felt a lot more normal this week, and have even started hoping they’ll let me go back to work soon. I have a strong suspicion that they’re not going to give me the go-ahead until after the catheter comes out though. Hopefully only another couple weeks…

Medications

I’ve finished my antibiotics and I’m now just taking the paracetamol as needed. I’ve reduced it to 6 tablets a day rather than the maximum of 8 – but I still take the last two of I’ve had a big day. 
This will be the last time I mention medication – the paracetamol will continue until I’m no longer in pain.

Dressings

I’ve been told I can remove the dressing on my graft site, so now I’m just keeping it covered for scar control purposes. 
I still have the opsite over my suprapubic site… that’ll continue until it gets removed, and it gets changed daily because it gets wet in the shower. This will be the last time I mention dressings – the SPC dressings will continue until it comes out, and I really don’t want to have to mention it every week. 

Movement

So! Movement is back to about 98%. This week I started taking the dog for very short walks. I’m averaging about 1.6-1.7km in about 20 minutes. They’re quite tiring and I can only really do one a day for now, but the aim is to work on distance and then speed. 
I also started driving again this week with the approval from Hans. Driving is fine for the main part, but I drive a manual – so driving through areas with a lot of gear changes is quite uncomfortable. 

Full Thickness Skin Graft (FTSG) Site

Looking good. Scar-management from now on. The skin is hypersensitive at the moment, but that should start calming down now. I’m meant to be having something covering it still – to keep the tension on the area to assist scar healing – but my skin is having a massive reaction to having the dressing removed (not pictured).  I’ll give it a day or two to calm itself down, and then I’ll cover it up again. 

Phallus

Swelling is continuing to go down (it’s about 3/4 of the way there), and the graft site is getting less and less scabby. I have a lot more movement too, and can comfortably have him sitting on either of my legs or even sitting back on my stomach (although that one is still a little uncomfortable). 
I’m not bleeding at all now. Just occasionally dripping a bit of urine / serous fluid.

Scrotum/Perineum

Not much to report again. Swelling is going down still and I’m now almost completely stopped oozing fluid. I feel that some of it is still urine from the hole… but it’s significantly less… and for now, that’ll do. I’ve been making an effort to make sure I give it time to dry out a bit during the day and after my shower. 
I’ll add a little note here… I’ve been keeping an eye on where my clitoris was moved to as well. Basically it now sits just to the right, at the base of the phallus. There hasn’t been anything interesting happening so far, which is why I haven’t mentioned it before now. However! I’ve noticed some granulation tissue has started making its way to the surface. A part of me is annoyed at this, because it’s just another little thing that hasn’t healed the way it was meant to. But! Worst case scenario is that it gets fixed during stage three. I’ll keep you informed of its progress, but it’s not getting its own section. 

Second Urethragram

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Ooo… I’m actually a bit nervous today. I don’t have to be at the hospital until 1030, but I’m a bit restless. I think the nerves come from the unknown – no one has been able to tell me exactly what happens during a descending urethragram, so I don’t know what’s going to happen. I think that I’m also just ready for all the tubes and dressings to sod off so I can just concentrate on finishing healing. 

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Just waiting for the cab. I booked it for 0945 just so I’m definitely there in time. Last time there was a gas leak on the off-ramp to the hospital and they had to close it and divert traffic. While I know I’ll probably just be waiting around for ages anyway – I still don’t like being late. 

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Got here just after 10… I love being early. Thankfully it worked in my favour too. I went to the Gastroentanology suites like last time and was told I didn’t need to be there, I could go straight to Queensland X-ray… so now I’m on my way there. 

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Word of advice: print a copy of the referral and bring it with you. Despite the referral having been faxed through on 07 march, they can’t find it. Luckily I keep all of my emails, so I’m in the process of emailing it through again… Phone reception is shit.

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Urethragram is done. They filled up my suprapubic catheter with a contrast dye and then the aim was for me to pee it out. I told them upfront that I wasn’t sure I could do it. I couldn’t. Now in the GE Suites again waiting to see Hans. I hope I haven’t stuffed my chances at getting this tube out…

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So! I have to go back to X-ray to have a pericatheter urethragram done (the same as last time). Obviously because there was a small hole last time, Hans wants to make sure that’s sorted itself before taking things out. I have to say, I’m feeling better about things now that I’ve seen what it looks like inside. I hope this test goes well. 

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Yeah, the test didn’t go well. I’m still leaking in the same area as before. On the plus side it isn’t pooling – but I’m still pretty bummed out. 

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So… one of the nurses just came by and told me to stop eating and drinking just in case I had to go up to surgery. Apparently it’s just a precaution because Hans hasn’t seen the results yet – but it’s quite unnerving.

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I have the catheter for another three weeks minimum.

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Sorry for the delay, I needed a bit of time to process my appointment with Hans. I got myself to a point that I was so hyped up about possibly getting the catheter removed, that when I saw the contrast on the urethragram leaking out – I just crashed mentally. 

Hans wanted to talk to me about two things. The first was the fact that I couldn’t pee (I told him it was a stage fright thing, he said he thought it might have been), the second was about the leak. 

He said that at this stage he wasn’t ready to call it a fistula. He asked about the test, and seemed very interested in the amount of pressure the doctor performing the urethragram had used to push the contrast through. I got the impression that he thought that maybe the urethra had healed, but had been opened again by the force of the contrast going through. The plan is to give it a couple of weeks to heal and for the healing to mature enough to withstand force. He’s out of the country until April, so I’m seeing him again on the 6th. This is where the plan gets a bit sketchy on details.

Over the next couple of weeks, Hans will think about how he wants to check how things are going. I may go for another urethragram, or he may do a cystoscope in the operating theatres. Depending how that goes, I could get the catheter removed then, or (if the hole hasn’t healed) I could end up booked in for surgery.

This surgery would entail taking a buccal mucosa graft from my mouth and fixing the hole. We also discussed changing my catheter because it will have been in for 6 weeks by the time I see him next and will be due to be changed… if he doesn’t remove it on the 6th, I’ll be getting that done at home. I’m not flying to Brisbane just to get a catheter changed.

Personally, I think that whatever I did the other week is the reason I’m not fully healed. I think that in another few days everything will have closed, and that by the time I see Hans again, he’ll be ready to remove the catheter. Hans’ concern is that the hole has healed as a hole (as opposed to healing correctly), which I fully understand. But for the amount of bleeding I had, I think that it’s just a wound that is still trying to heal…. And that’s the story I’m going to tell myself for the next three weeks… 

I was so ready to have this catheter out so that I could finish healing and get on with life. I just want to be able to sleep on my side again without waking up because my catheter is blocked (from lying on it), I want to be able to shower properly without trying to keep this stupid catheter dressing dry, to not have to change the dressing almost every single night because the bloody thing is about as waterproof as a sieve – no matter what I do. I know this is only a small setback in the grand scheme of things – god knows I have friends who are currently going through much worse in their own phallo journeys – but I think psychologically I had managed to tell myself that it’d all be ok regardless of what the test said.

My plan is to hammer my diet and supplements for the next three weeks especially, to try and aid the healing. It’s been pretty good for the main part, but I’m going to have to ramp things up if I want this stupid catheter out. 

1 Month Post Stage 2 RFF Phalloplasty

I thought I’d do my update today rather than tomorrow. I have my urethragram tomorrow so I want to concentrate on that.

This last month has been both very quick and excruciatingly slow, but here we are. I can’t believe I’m a month post stage 2.

This past week on its own hasn’t been too bad at all. The bleeding has all but stopped – it’s just kind of pinkish droplets every now and then. I did start bleeding slightly from behind the scrotum, but I feel that that is something to do with pulling stitches – so I’m not too concerned. Again, that’s pretty much stopped too; I’m just getting pinkish droplets there as well. I found that lying down for a couple hours each day with nothing on my lower half helped. I was doing about 2 hours in the afternoon and about an hour after showering in the evening. Because I’ve been wearing pads solidly for the last couple weeks, I’ve been very aware of the fact that it can get pretty sweaty and warm (ah the sun-tropics).

I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while, but I keep forgetting. Pads. They’re going to be required – just get used to it. Personally, I’ve been rocking a variety of styles over the last month. I started with just a combine dressing whilst in hospital, worked my way up to adult nappies (very stylish), and was onto your normal panty liners before I had my bleed. Then I went back up to the nappies for a few days, and as we currently stand, I’m wearing some heavy duty pads during the night and just your normal Always medium ones during the day. Is it weird? Yes. I thought my days of pads were over. Is it worth getting funny over? No. At the end of the day, I needed something to catch blood, they’re there to catch blood. 

One thing I’ve learnt very quickly during these surgeries is that you do what you need to do to heal. It’s not forever. 

I went for another GP review yesterday. Although she noted that I am walking much better – she still wants me off work for another month. This all pretty much comes down to the fact that they’re worried I could have another bleed. Thankfully she still wants to review me frequently so that can be amended if required, but still… I think I’ll be driving my wife insane by then!

I’ve had a couple instances where I have partially bypassed my catheter and one where I fully bypassed it. These have only happened in the past week and are only when I’ve been trying to go to the loo. They’re not that comfortable, and generally feel like the whole bladder spasming thing again – but I think that’s because I’m meant to have something in place to stop it happening. I was initially freaking out, but I spoke to a mate that has had the surgery – who said that it had happened to him too – and my dad, and they both said that it’s probably something to do with Post-surgery swelling going down… So I’m not too concerned. On the plus side, the bypassing helped pass the blood quicker, and I don’t appear to be leaking from my scrotum. Hopefully those are both good signs for tomorrow!

Medications

I’m still on:

– Antibiotics (Cephalexin) once a day (at night); and

– Paracetamol every 6 hours

Antibiotics are going to be finished on Sunday. I can’t wait, I hate taking tablets. The paracetamol is still for comfort, and I feel that I’m pretty much at a stage where I can start pushing my times out slightly and start coming off them… Probably after I get back from Brisbane though. 

Dressings

Glansplasty site:

– Opsite dressing

Everything is looking really good. I’ve kept the opsite on for now just to protect everything a bit longer, but I’m pretty much happy enough to take the dressing off once I get some tape to cover it with (to assist with scarring).

Suprapubic Catheter Site:

– Opsite dressing

(*fingers crossed* 1 more day, 1 more day, 1 more day)

Everywhere else:

– Nothing

Movement

I’ve noticed this week that I’m definitely moving better. Not necessarily faster, but better. 

I’m also able to stretch down a bit easier to do things like dry my toes after a shower. Again, still slowly… but better than last week. 

Full Thickness Skin Graft (FTSG) Site

I managed to get a picture this week! The tape got really irritating so I took off the dressing to give it some air. I’ve since replaced the dressing, but I’m planning on getting rid of it fully soon and getting into a scar-care routine. 

Phallus

Not much to report. The swelling is still slowly going down and the glansplasty site appears to be healing well, a little scabby at the moment – but that’s to be expected.

Scrotum/Perineum

Not much to report again. Swelling is going down, the leaking is getting less and less…. Yeah that’s about it for now. 

Sensitivity

Not much to report here either to be honest. Feeling is pretty much back to where is was pre-stage 2, so I don’t really see the point in updating that here anymore. I’ll add it back into the update for Stage 1.

Items For Sale

As a byproduct of undergoing phalloplasty, I obviously have a couple of items that are no longer going to be of use (not that most of them got used more than 2 times anyway…). 

I’ve decided to place these items up for sale on a new page I’ve created on the site, and if anyone is interested – feel free to send me an email. 

I’ll be uploading information over the next few days. 

3 Weeks Post Stage 2 RFF Phalloplasty

On the whole, this week hasn’t been too bad at all. 

The spasming that I was experiencing has completely gone since getting that urethral catheter removed (thank God). This has made moving quite a bit easier.

On Sunday night, I bent down to pick up the cat bowls to feed them, and felt a twinge. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but not long afterwards I stared bleeding from my phallus. Like, a lot of blood. I think that since Sunday night I’ve probably passed a good couple hundred mils. 

Thankfully, it is slowing down. I think I’ve pulled slightly on the urethra somewhere and it’s just opened the floodgates for blood to get in (rather than the urethra itself being the cause of the bleeding). I messaged Hans, and he thinks it could either be some old blood or a haematoma – either way, he’s not concerned at this stage, so neither am I. Even if I’m still bleeding next week, it’ll pass eventually. I don’t have any blood-clotting issues, so I think I just bled a bit and it’s making its way out because I don’t have any muscles in there to assist it out. 

Medications

I’m still on:

– Antibiotics (Cephalexin) once a day (at night); and

– Paracetamol every 6 hours

I was due to finish the antibiotics in 4 days, but Hans said just to finish the box (an extra week). The paracetamol is still for comfort more than anything else, although it has helped with a couple of high temperatures I’ve had over the last couple of days. 

Dressings

Glansplasty site:

– Opsite dressing

The old Opsite dressing was taken off at a doctor review I had at home. Everything is looking really good, and there’s only a small open area left that actually happened when they took the dressing off. 
Phallus:

– Nothing

After the urethragram, Hans said not to worry about dressing the phallus anymore. This is good because it’s meant that everything gets some time to air and get all cleaned out. It’s also made all this bleeding much easier to clean up!

Suprapubic Catheter Site:

– Opsite dressing

I’ll be so pleased when this catheter comes out (hopefully next week). This dressing has been the most difficult to keep dry, because the bloody thing just won’t get waterproof!! As a result, I’m changing the dressing almost everyday.

Everywhere else:

– Nothing

Movement

Movement is continuing to come back slowly but surely. 

Today I managed to get out of the car and walk to the far back corner of a hardware store (Bunnings for those who have an idea of the size) at about 90% speed and mobility. Unfortunately a short time after that, I got very tired and achey very quickly, and had to go and sit in the car. Baby steps. 

As I’ve said before, I can do pretty much everything, as long as it’s done slowly and under control. 

Full Thickness Skin Graft (FTSG) Site

The graft is looking really good, but at the moment it’s still covered. The dressing was changed a couple days ago, and I don’t really want to aggravate my tape allergies just for a picture. I’ll take one at the next dressing change though. 

Everything is looking good from what I hear though 🙂

Phallus

Bruising is all but gone now, and swelling is getting there too. 

The graft is healing really well, although it has a long way to go before it’s properly healed. 

Scrotum/Perineum

The bruising is pretty much gone here too, just waiting for the swelling. On the plus side, I’m starting to be able to move the skin around more, so the swelling is going down – it’s just taking its time.

Sensitivity

Whilst the hypersensitivity has gone down, it appears I’m still numb in some areas. This by itself isn’t an issue, but some of the numbness is going now – which is leaving an aching feeling in its place. Thankfully I’m still on painkillers, so that combined with some anti-inflammitories should help out. 

7 Months Post Stage 1 RFF Phalloplasty

A little bit late, but here we go. 

As I’ve mentioned before, because I’m now almost three weeks post stage 2 -this is going to be a bit all over the place. 

Arm

Arm and scar care took a massive blow this month. Between deaths in the family and surgery, I really haven’t taken as much care as I should have. 

That being said, things are continuing to heal and look better all the time. I have a new compression garment coming soon that’s lined with silicon. Because I live in the sub-tropics, I’ll only be wearing it at night, but even that will help things heaps. 

Pictures are below. Excuse the poor lighting and mess in the background, makes everything look redder than it is. 

Phallus

Difficult to say, lol. 

Although things are pretty difficult to gauge at the moment, I still feel like sensation is better and better as the months go by. Surgery a couple weeks ago definitely jump-started a few more of the nerves, but they’re all still calming down after surgery; so it’s difficult to compare from last month. 

Also pretty difficult to gauge how everything is looking too. The scarring on the tip seems to have opened slightly from the catheter that was inserted for Stage 2, but I won’t know if that’s impeding anything until (hopefully) next week. 

Yeah… so sorry, a little all over the place – hopefully next month’s update will be easier to do. 

First Pericatheter Urethrogram

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Booked a cab for 0745. I don’t need to be at Greenslopes until 0830, but since I’ll be going trough a number of school zones and straight past the city – I figured it was better to be safe than sorry. 

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Just got to the hospital. Traffic wasn’t too bad, but I’m definitely glad I booked the cab earlier. 

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All checked in. So what happens is that you go to the Gastroentanology area, they admit you to the hospital and the nurses prep you there. When you’re ready, they wheel you down to the X-ray department for the procedure, then you come back and get fed (my favourite part).I called Hans’ rooms to see whether I needed to fast, but didn’t get a call back. I’ve assumed that I don’t need to – because there’s been no mention of anaesthetics. That being said, I haven’t eaten this morning (because I don’t feel like eating before hospital stuff). I’ve had some water though, to kick start the catheter drainage for the day. 

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Was taken in with the nurses to do my first set of obs and all the paperwork. Still no word on whether I’m meant to have been fasting, but I’ve been advised to stop drinking water for now, just in case. 

They’re also a bit tentative about me taking a taxi back to my parent’s place, because they don’t know whether there will be any anaesthetics used… worst case scenario I can get picked up – but dad’s just come off night shift, so I don’t really want to wake him up if I don’t need to. 

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At about 0910 I went through and got changed into a gown, and put into a bed before being taken down to X-ray. There was some confusion about whether my dressings needed to come down, but once I told them that Hans would be the one redressing everything – it was fine. 

I went into the rooms about 0950, and removed my dressings. Then got put on another bed with a big machine attached to it, and they prepped everything. 
Essentially, they place a small tube down the phallus next to the catheter tube. Then a contrast due is injected through into the urethra to see if there are any leaks. The most painful part of the whole experience is the tape connected to the cover they place over you, that sticks to your legs. 

So far, everything is looking really good. There is a tiny tiny leak at the base of the urethra, so I don’t know if I’ll get the tube out today… but it’s nice to know that at least the graft hasn’t completely failed. 

There was a bit of confusion afterwards as to what was happening to me, but essentially I got taken back to the Gastroentanology rooms, and now I’m waiting to see Hans. 

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Still waiting. To be honest it’s nice to have some time to settle everything again – the only issue I have is that they haven’t fed me yet, I haven’t eaten since last night, and they keep bringing food out.

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Just asked one of the nurses whether there was any word on when I’d be being seen, but unfortunately it’s not really something they can calculate. On the plus side, they’re bringing me some food. 

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I’m free!! And I’m a tube down!! Hans was happy enough with the test that he was willing to take the tube out. 

First he withdrew the excess contrast out of my urethra by syringe, then he pulled out the tube. That is not a pleasant feeling, however it was over relatively quickly. 

The graft is also looking good, and nothing was redressed. I’m coming back in about two weeks to get another test done (to make sure everything is still looking good), and get the suprapubic catheter removed. Very excited. 
I already feel like I’m able to move better, hopefully it’s not just in my head!

2 Weeks Post Stage 2 RFF Phalloplasty

This past week has been extremely uncomfortable. I think it’s mainly because I’ve been a lot more active. Not so much from running around the house or anything; but I flew back home, had a couple appointments and have flown back to Brisbane again – so a few major excursions. 

The twitchy I-need-to-pee feeling has been a pain in the arse this week. When I’m tired – it spasms. When I move too much or a certain way – it spasms. If I need to do a bowel movement – it spasms. Very annoying. I noticed that when it was spasming badly, I’d get some blood in my catheter bag; however if I keep on top of my fluids – the spasming is extremely reduced and doesn’t last anywhere near as long. 

My mental state of mind has been much better since I went home. It was definitely a bit too early to be traveling – but I healed from it quite quickly because I was at home. The animals were very good at not jumping on me, and I don’t regret pushing myself to leave a little earlier. 

Medications

At the moment I’m on:
– Antibiotics (Cephalexin) once a day (at night); and

– Paracetamol every 6 hours

I’ve finished my first lot of antibiotics, and now I’m on the other ones until they’re done. The paracetamol are being taken more for comfort than for specific pain relief, and I’m considering starting some ibuprofen too, just to assist in reducing inflammation. 

Dressings

Glansplasty site:

– What looks like a massive steri-strip

– Opsite dressing

Phallus:

– Jellonet over graft site

– Sterile gauze over graft

– Opsite dressings covering half the shaft

I got rid of the opsite that was covering the tip of the phallus/holding the catheter tube – because I was just bleeding into it too much and I was concerned about the dressings getting extremely dirty. Instead, I cut a square of combine (like a pad), cut a line into it so it could go around the catheter, and then taped it in place on the tip of the phallus. 
The plus side of this is that I could easily change the dressings daily without damaging the dressings covering the graft, and the catheter was taped to the side of the phallus just so it stopped swinging around. 

The main reason Hans wanted the opsite on, was to keep everything dry in the shower – but I’m using a contraption involving a sandwich bag and tape – so that’s not an issue in this instance. 

Suprapubic Catheter Site:

– Opsite dressing

I changed the dressing style to a smaller one, because it was very bulky, and kept getting wet. The issue I’m finding as time goes on, is that my hair is growing back – so the opsite isn’t sticking as well.

Everywhere else:

– Nothing

Movement

Hahah, I’m nowhere near full movement. This is mainly because of the spasming that I was talking about earlier – really makes me want to walk in such a way that it doesn’t make it happen lol. 

I’m able to pretty much do everything very slowly, but that’ll come back in time. 

Full Thickness Skin Graft (FTSG) Site

The graft site on my side is still fully dressed at the moment, so I still have no idea what it looks like. Dressing should come off tomorrow – so I should have pictures for you then!

Phallus

The swelling and bruising are continuing to go down, but it’s still difficult to see what’s going on because of all the dressings. 

I’m hoping that the catheter in the phallus is helping the scar tissue problem I had after stage 1. Peeing will be much easier to handle if I don’t have to turn 45 degrees to the toilet to do it!!

The graft is continuing to look good, I’ll get a proper look tomorrow though. 

Scrotum/Perineum

The bruising is going down slowly but surely, and things seem to be healing quite well. 

The swelling is going down too – but that’s going to take a while. 

Sensation

Thankfully, the hypersensitivity has all but gone, and I’m back to where I was prior to this stage. I’m not at all concerned – my nerves take a long time to come back, and they can take as long as they want!

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That’s all for now! I go in tomorrow for my Pericatheter Urethragram, so I’ll do a post on that tomorrow to let you know how that goes! If it all goes well, I should be one tube less!