TOPIC: The Thin border between PE and TEA

@ HunkChunk... I dont know if you mentioned it before but i just was interested to know how old are you?

@New1inch
A decade older than Miracle7 who always says how he\'s older than everyone lol. And yes, the scary natural phenomenon of Andropose was starting to settle in. It makes for a larger scale combat than simple Phalloplasty with the battle staged on several fronts as you will see in this entire thread as time progresses. Each battle won the war continues as it is also a war on an invincible enemy called ageing.
HC

@EP
Actually the forehead got tightened during my first two sessions, the third one wasn\'t because I had loose skin but because by taking out the slack you noticed a lot more the marks from frowning that make horizontal lines, I\'ve even seen these on guys in their twenties. The normal solution to this is usually botox injected into the muscles which contract and produce them, but it only lasts a year and is overpriced due to patent protection as well as the lack of competition when only certain doctors can inject.
My doctor was helpful and went that extra mile, to try to reduce the skin available for the folds. It is still there a bit as it has only been a week\'s time, but right after that last photo with it smooth and red I washed it and the flakes came off revealing brand new skin underneath. It is pink and irritated but I continue with the hyaluronic healing cream and in the past three days it has faded to a more normal shade and looks fresh and smooth.
There are still residual lines which do bother me yet, but it takes a full month to see the final result of the retraction and new collagen growth... yes it is collagen also on your face and not just in your pants lol. So I think this might suit our game plan, to reduce the problem to an acceptable level until Botox becomes a generic making future maintenance a cost-effective solution.
HC

Testosterone shot day 5 update
My appetite has been continuously ravenous but I only gained a couple of pounds since the shot. I worried that it acted only as an appetite stimulant which would lead me to increased fatty tissues but apparently it works mostly by building muscle. Today I had resolved to fast to compensate yesterday\'s excesses. And I went for a long walk to work out some energy and restart a bit of physical activity after a long period of convalescence. While walking I was taken by hunger, not the nervous munchies but real hunger. So I figured there must be some physical need for nourishment and when I got home I renounced fasting instead resolving to eat veggies mostly. Then I checked and noticed that my biceps, without any notable physical activity, have seemed to have regained some of their lost Girth in only a few days. So I assume that testosterone has stimulated muscle cell buildup which is calling upon nutritional resources causing the hunger.
HC

Do you take any AI to control estrogen?

Testosterone shot 1-day update
I felt fine upon awakening the day after last evening\'s 250mg Testosterone shot. However, during the day I was grumpy, irritable and griping away. I wondered what had put me in an irascible mood, thinking of a number of things in my life which might be bothering me more deeply, and it suddenly dawned on me: it was probably the Test shot.
I had heard of guys doing test boosting for muscle building workouts getting so irritated that they\'d punch dents into their cars. Now I can see why this might happen, it does make you rather edgy. I also feel like my rib-cage wants to expand stretching at the back, as if I felt like busting out of a corset - reminding me of the way the Incredible Hulk would split out of his shirt during morphing. Funny sensation indeed.
So this means to me either that my test levels were probably not as deficient as I thought and I am possibly at least slightly now over dosage, or that the way these shots work are by releasing too much at the beginning dwindling to not enough at the end? If so this would be a good argument for instead using those 48-hour patches you swap or maybe even test in pill form? In any case I\'m happy I didn\'t start out with the mega shot of 1000mg which lasts 14 weeks, that would have been the whopper.
HC

Got the shot 15 minutes ago and this stuff has no instant effect. It must be because it is in intramuscular form injected into the buttocks which must be some form of biological time release mechanism. Also it was one of the smallish doses of only 250mg of Testosterone. The larger 14 week dose of 1000mg probably would have been more instantly noticeable. I will keep you posted later once I start noticing effects. The nurse also took out the Sutures in my ear where cartilage had been sourced for rhinoplasty. That was 2 and a half weeks later and now all that remains to heal is an overly swollen nose plus the laser burns on my forehead, eyes, hands and neck. Who said it\'s easy getting in the pink, first you have to go into the red at the bank and then they dig into the red (yeah, the messy stuff).
HC

1-hour update
I spoke too soon. I\'ve been invaded by a heat wave like you get after running a mile. It invades your body and spreads warmth and a similar feeling you get when your muscles are all warmed up from exercise. So far so good, it looks like it is powerful enough to have a rapid effect which can be felt, and if this holds up I think that I\'m fortunate to no longer have to take far less effective pills such as Methyl D-1.
HC

@HC
I love it man. You\'re like our personal guinnea pig, in a good way!

@briceb
Actually I\'m my own guinea pig... except for PMMA where others preceded me. The nurse who gave me the shot had never seen such laser burns and said pretty much the same thing. I\'m the first guy in the country to get the eyelids done with fractional CO2 which is considered way too harsh for such delicate skin. The opium pills sure helped along with the numbing cream. I am also maybe the first guy anywhere to get the back if the hands done, that really hurt especially when I cam home with them bleeding. But when you come to think of it with any surgery or medical intervention we are all guinea pigs since no case is identical to another.
HC

Structural secondary post traumatic open reconstructive rhinoplasty - Part III
Here are some pictures of the extent of the surgery. It only shows the tip of the iceberg so to speak. The nasal bone had been mashed and broken back when I had the accident and then sawed at and chiseled for hours during reparatory surgery back in the day. It had to be reworked during this recent surgery but it was too hard to get much done.

All the cartilage was buckled and twisted so bad in concave and convex forms that the surgeon couldn\'t reshape it or rework it and had to use special microligature grafting techniques he had pioneered to rebuild and reshape new ones. Adding to this his proprietary muscular tissue dressings he calls camouflage layering, he finished the job as best he could.

The tip had been exploded by the oar and was splitting into pieces which couldn\'t be patched so it had to come out and be replaced with the cartilage from my ear. That was an unexpected pleasure which gave the result you can see here.
Here\'s what it looked like to those in the operating room for the six hours on the block. It took him four times the expected time of 1.5 hours. I don\'t know just how hard it was and he did say that he had to improvise quite a bit and that my case was the worst mess he\'d seen. It didn\'t look nearly as bad on the outside as within.

Not exactly appetizing you will agree but I think this makes it easier to accept that any form of surgery is going to be invasive, except for simple injection procedures such as PMMA which hardly causes any impact at all in most cases.
HC

Hi EP,
I was on the operating block exactly 6 days after the PMMA injections by Dr C. So it has been 17 days today and while the rest of the nose is quite the same as originally but with the poorly repaired previous fractures fixed, I can\'t speak for the tip as it is still as swollen as a PMMA penis on day 3... I only hope it will deflate soon so that I can know. The first week it was all so swollen up it looked like I was wearing the headgear costume from the show CATS.
HC

Dd71 wrote: wow HC, that is ......for lack of a better word......crazy!!! You put your body threw alot for the of this woman. Now heres my questions.....if all goes well and you have her love, will you tell her what you did? Also on the other side of the spectrum ,what if after all that you have gone threw....for whatever reason you end up not falling for her....will you regret it?

Hi Dd71,
It has taken me a week to reply to your post, as I\'ve been quite under the shock of what you mentioned. This is actually what happens to be the case. I should have waited until we got together, instead of confiding at a distance. It seems that in our world there is a prevalent idea that one can only be what nature gave us. And that intervention in our physique or appearance can only be unnatural, artificial and suspect.
Wanting to be honest and open with her, I let it slip out that I had undergone several procedures without specifying which ones and especially not talking of PE. She became absent for a number of days not replying, and then told me our friendship could no longer be the same as she now \"felt uncomfortable\". She has since left my life permanently.
Yet I have no regrets or qualms about any of the efforts undertaken to regain control over many aspects of my life and bring myself into closer conformity not to some preconceived idea of whom I should be but to instead better reflect who I really am. This means that even if she chose to disown me, I can in no way disown myself. And I shall continue to either improve my quality of life or at minimum do what it takes to maintain it.
HC

astroboy wrote: Sounds amazing. Any photos?
I\'m actually getting Fraxel laser treatment in Thailand in a fortnight.

Hi Astroboy,
I posted a picture of my hand after just about the harshest settings which could be dialed in. The forehead had almost as much to avoid having to resort to expensive annual shots of botox. He told me that each syringe of Botox costs him an uncompressible 150 Euros (over $200) and that since in France only plastic surgeons and Dermatologist are allowed to inject it that they\'ve done price fixing to protect this lucrative business. His usual pricing is about 400 Euros ($600) for each injection.
So he was helpful and understanding when I said I wanted to avoid such repeated costs and dialed in a very high setting to better retract the skin of my forehead so that any residual folds when raising my eyebrows wouldn\'t happen anymore. I just took a snapshot in the mirror to show you what it looks like after day 4 of healing. It isn\'t nearly as red as it was before and I\'ve used up a lot of healing cream with Hyaluronic Acid.
Target foldsI would advise to be very cautions when undertaking laser treatments for the skin. It can be either the best or the worst of procedures. I researched it widely through internet forums before deciding to go forth and try it myself. What became rapidly apparent is that beyond the type of machine and technology, what really matters most is the competence and know-how of the person giving the treatment.
Smooth forehead
It is important that you have this done by a medical doctor, and not just any doctor either. It shouldn\'t be a plastic surgeon unless they are highly experienced and specialized in this. The skin is an entirely different field and I recommend having it done as I did, by a leading Dermatologist. Mine is a pioneer in this field heading up hospital research in the applications of laser for Dermatology. It is largely for this reason that my results are splendid, many people have had their skin ruined and suffered permanent damage from lasers which can be extremely aggressive.
The harshest but most effective of machines is the CO2 fractioned laser which he tells me isn\'t the same thing as the gentler Fraxel laser. This is what he has used on me, and it corresponds in effectiveness to a \"medium\" intensity chemical peeling. The Non Fractioned CO2 laser used to be used only for serious medical cases, and required 3-months of hospitalization in a burn victims facility.
And now your turn to tell us, Astroboy how did your sessions go in Thailand?
HC

Note:
For those who read this thread some days back there have been some pictures and links added, in case you want to browse back to previous pages.
HC