Trim Labiaplasty - Labia Minora Reduction

I am writing this review in order to hopefully help young teens especially, but also all women. I don't want any young woman to have to experience what I experienced. It is truly a traumatic experience.

When I was 16 I wanted to get labiaplasty done so that my labia minora would not hang past my labia majora. My mother decided to help me find a doctor. I will start off by saying this, MAKE SURE THERE IS A NURSE IN THE ROOM WHEN YOU OR YOUR DAUGHTER IS EXAMINED BY A DOCTOR.

In June 2006 I had a trimming labiaplasty done for free by a gynocologist. He wanted to do a wedge labiaplasty but I told him I wanted a trim labiaplasty since my lips were brown/purple in colour at the edges and I wanted that colouring removed.

The result was I ended up botched. The left side of my labia minora was basically completely cut off and the right side there is only about 1cm of labia. Furthermore he cut my labia minora off from under my clitoris where it is supposed to be attached. This left me with two bumps under my clitoris, which looks very unnatural.

8 years later, after being pressured by a new boyfriend to see what I look like between my labia majora, I was once again naive and decided to try and get the botched job fixed so I would look more natural and less hacked.

I went to a plastic surgeon this past February who had amazing reviews. The problem is his reviews were all from boob jobs and lipo, not labiaplasty. Which brings me to my second piece of important advice, DON'T ASSUME that because a surgeon is good at most other plastic surgeries that they will be good at labiaplasty. YOU NEED TO FIND A DOCTOR THAT IS HIGHLY EXPERIENCED and has good reviews specifically for labiaplasty.

His nurse assured me that more women come to him for labiaplasty than any other surgeon in the city. I discussed with the surgeon what I wanted done and he repeated it back to me and seemed to understand. My pre-op was the day before my surgery, so I was sure he wouldn't forget what we talked about that he was supposed to do. Well he must have forgot anyways, because when I got home and looked at my crotch in the mirror, it was obvious he didn't do what we discussed. I am even further disfigured than before!! Every area he cut left me with a sore lumpy scar! And he cut in an area under my clitoris that I did NOT want cut. IT HAS BEEN SEVEN MONTHS and this scar on the side of my clitoris hood that runs down below my clitoris is still burning and sore!!!! There is no infection, it's just a bad scar in a very sensitive area and the nerves are all messed up. Try getting an orgasm from your partner when your hood area beside your clit is burning! it's not easy.

The other scars he gave me also still hurt now and then and are still lumpy. But the one near my clit is the worst. It constantly burns every day. My family doctor told me that time is my best friend in this case and to wait it out and hopefully the pain will stop eventually. Because the pain has lasted so long I went through a very bad depressed for about 6 months and lost a lot of weight along with all of my self esteem. I am just coming out of it now and am on antidepressants for the first time in my life, which are helping.

Based on my experience I do not recommend anyone getting a trim labiaplasty. If you cannot accept yourself and MUST get labiaplasty done to be happy, then get a wedge labiaplasty done by an experience surgeon and explain every detail you want to see in the results.

If you are a young girl in your teens, please please please wait to have this surgery done. We are naive as teenagers and make decisions that we wouldn't make if we were older and wiser. When you are older and have a mature partner, they will not care what you look like down there anyways. And if they do then they are a shallow a**hole and you should dump them and find someone better.

Mothers, for this same reason, do NOT let your young daughter get labiaplasty done as a teen. She should wait until she is an adult and then make the decision. I resent my mother for allowing me to get it done at such a young age. I was naive and regret the decision.

Please research your surgeon very carefully and wait until you are at least in your mid 20's to have this surgery done. If you must do it, get a wedge labiaplasty, not a trim.

Please see the photos I've attached of a few different women who have suffered through being disfigured after having trim labiaplasty. Keep in mind that these surgeries were done by so called 'professional' plastic surgeons and gynaecologists. In most photos the labia minora are completely amputated off. Lumpy, painful scarring can also occur.

I'd post a photo of my own surgery result, but it is still too upsetting for me to look at. I understand that some trim labiaplasties can turn out fine, but if you get a wedge labiaplasty then you dont have to worry about looking like one of these photos.

I think it is important for women to know that your vulva has a very complex nerve system. Even gynaecologists and plastic surgeons don't fully understand it or know how it works. So it can be very risky to have them cut skin away from it.
I have the tiniest little scar about an inch in length that runs down the left side of my clitoral hood to the underside below my clitoris. Yet this tiny scar has caused me horrible pain at times. I get sharp shooting pains from this area up into my abdomen. I also get heavy throbbing pains deep in the left side of my labia majora that I never had before. It has been seven months since this surgery and these nerve pain problems have not gone away.
Women need to know these things are possible. I never had any pain like this after my first surgery, however. It was the 'revision' surgery with the plastic surgeon that has caused the nerve damage.
There are plenty of other women on this website and on other web pages that have nerve pain and scar pain that has not gone away after having a labia minora reduction.
This is because the nerve system in a woman's vulva is very complex and dense and all those nerves are connected and related to one another. It is best not to mess with them, in my opinion.
There are also women on this website as well as other web pages who are unable to have a vaginal orgasm during sex after having a labia minora reduction. This is because they have a loss of sensation after having a labia minora reduction. Of course you will never hear about this from a plastic surgeon!!
I myself am unable to have a vaginal orgasm. I can have a clitoral orgasm. But I've tried every sex position in the book for every length of time to try and get a vaginal orgasm and I can't!
Im not sure if that is because so much skin was taken off from my labia minora and has desensitized the nerves leading down into my vagina or not. I don't know if I would have been able to have a vaginal orgasm if I had not had the surgery, because I was a virgin before having the first surgery done. Nevertheless, it is very frustrating to think about.
Just be aware that some women can't get a vaginal orgasm after having a labia minora reduction, when they could before the surgery. It is a risky operation that has its benefits if done properly, but it can also hinder your pleasure during sex.
Please see the diagrams I've attached of the large clitoral system women have that spans under the labia majora. Also, there is a diagram showing some of the major nerves in the vulva.

Women who are worried about how they look down there need to realize that however you look is normal. You aren't ugly or deformed or 'hypertrophed'. You are normal! I've researched into this enough to know that women's downstairs areas are all different shades, shapes, and sizes. Don't think you have to look a specific way and that if you don't that you are ugly or abnormal.

We live in a greedy capitalist society where marketers will make us feel ugly through the media and Internet in order to sell services and products. It's called shame marketing and is hugely targeted at women. Its very sad and it says a lot about a woman to be strong enough to not be affected by this.

The media tends to make us feel as though we aren't fit enough, our lips or boobs aren't big enough, our skin isn't smooth enough, our noses aren't small enough. These are all lies. Life on earth is meant to be diverse, not all the same specific look and measurements.

Don't let [RS bleep] or the [RS bleep] industry or plastic surgeons make you feel like your 'downstairs area' is ugly or abnormal, however it looks, because that is NOT true. You are normal. You are beautiful. Try to accept yourself.