The four surgeries that used alloderm to bring the band up to the same level as the rest of the skin did not work.
So, he suggested one final option besides degloving, and that was to do a flap or a skin advancement surgery.
That happened on January 19 and I’m a week of surgery. Took the bandage off Friday. I was really pleased with how it looked and then inflammation set in. And I’ve been freaking out a little bit that it’s not any different than it was before the surgery. I still have the band that’s fairly deep and will get me more rejections.
But he says it’s edema because everything distal to the band is not allowed to drain back up into my body, lymphatic fluid. That constriction is blocking Venus flow if I understood him correctly. So I’m trying to be patient doing lymphatic drainage massage which is really just gently touching the skin towards the body, mild strokes of Moving skin not tissue.
That seems to be helping some
If anyone has experience with that, would love to hear it. I am attaching the picture from when we unwrapped it on Friday. If it ends up looking like this, I’ll be pretty happy. Then we need to focus on the pelvic floor pain. I think the surgeries have really triggered that so maybe after some rest and some PT that will go away. If not, I’ll have a presentable
Dick but painful orgasms so what’s the point?
Trying to be positive, but the best I can do is neutral at this point