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I was self-conscious about my labia since my teens...
I was self-conscious about my labia since my teens and even though I was confident in my sexuality there was always this underlying shame whenever my large lips had to be jumbled around and drawn apart to get access.
So at 25 I finally decided to own it and get my surgery. I deeply regret being concerned with the price - Dr. Onuma had the best reviews and the best prices in my city on. I think I was won-over by the price (in the end it cost just as much as the others due to the anaesthetist fee and the follow-up surgeries!) but I didn't look further into the fact that the reviews were for his other vaginal surgeries - and only in hindsight do I really realise how he is more of a gynaecological surgeon rather than a plastic surgeon.He has a lovely manner and talks you through it well - he raved about the trim technique so I trusted it, even though my intuition said the wedge made more sense. Anyway I thought we had an understanding that I wanted it to look natural - not too much taken off!One of the first distressing things was having to go to a hospital for the surgery, I was questioned a lot by the nurses as to what I was having done - I could tell that they weren't used to having people getting cosmetic surgery. The surgery itself went fine but the next few weeks were very painful and frustrating. For the hood reduction he cut a section out of the column above the clit to pull it up but that fell open at 3 weeks so I had to go into the hospital again to get it stitched back up (he thankfully did this at no extra cost). AND my body wasn't dissolving the dissolvable stitches so had to have quite a few very painful visits to Dr. Onuma to pull them out! All throughout I was extremely worried and distressed about the huge size of my clit and the lack of any visible labia.I was able to exercise have sex at about 7 weeks, but I would say it took a full 6 months for the swelling to completely subside. At this stage I was unhappy about this big gap between the one labia I had left and my clit so I went in for the THIRD surgery which we did under local in his rooms. Three more weeks later and after removing the stitches the tissues rejected each other and I was left with the gap!So I'm in the process of having to accept it as it is now. One of the worst things now is during foreplay the labia used to provide a nice path to glide a finger up to the clit, now the clit kind-of just stands alone and is more knobly and flips around the place. I've never regretted anything more in my life - if I could go back I would definitely go to a COSMETIC surgeon who does the wedge technique. It makes a lot of sense now that this would look much more natural - keeping the natural edges of the labia and de-bulking the clit without making it pop out.Anyone reading this, you're probably already one step ahead of me doing more research before your op. Please learn from my mistake and even if you do go for the trim technique, ask to see plenty of pictures of their previous surgeries (both from the front and from below), compare their "befores" with your own anatomy to make sure they've dealt with similar anatomy to yours before.
So at 25 I finally decided to own it and get my surgery. I deeply regret being concerned with the price - Dr. Onuma had the best reviews and the best prices in my city on. I think I was won-over by the price (in the end it cost just as much as the others due to the anaesthetist fee and the follow-up surgeries!) but I didn't look further into the fact that the reviews were for his other vaginal surgeries - and only in hindsight do I really realise how he is more of a gynaecological surgeon rather than a plastic surgeon.He has a lovely manner and talks you through it well - he raved about the trim technique so I trusted it, even though my intuition said the wedge made more sense. Anyway I thought we had an understanding that I wanted it to look natural - not too much taken off!One of the first distressing things was having to go to a hospital for the surgery, I was questioned a lot by the nurses as to what I was having done - I could tell that they weren't used to having people getting cosmetic surgery. The surgery itself went fine but the next few weeks were very painful and frustrating. For the hood reduction he cut a section out of the column above the clit to pull it up but that fell open at 3 weeks so I had to go into the hospital again to get it stitched back up (he thankfully did this at no extra cost). AND my body wasn't dissolving the dissolvable stitches so had to have quite a few very painful visits to Dr. Onuma to pull them out! All throughout I was extremely worried and distressed about the huge size of my clit and the lack of any visible labia.I was able to exercise have sex at about 7 weeks, but I would say it took a full 6 months for the swelling to completely subside. At this stage I was unhappy about this big gap between the one labia I had left and my clit so I went in for the THIRD surgery which we did under local in his rooms. Three more weeks later and after removing the stitches the tissues rejected each other and I was left with the gap!So I'm in the process of having to accept it as it is now. One of the worst things now is during foreplay the labia used to provide a nice path to glide a finger up to the clit, now the clit kind-of just stands alone and is more knobly and flips around the place. I've never regretted anything more in my life - if I could go back I would definitely go to a COSMETIC surgeon who does the wedge technique. It makes a lot of sense now that this would look much more natural - keeping the natural edges of the labia and de-bulking the clit without making it pop out.Anyone reading this, you're probably already one step ahead of me doing more research before your op. Please learn from my mistake and even if you do go for the trim technique, ask to see plenty of pictures of their previous surgeries (both from the front and from below), compare their "befores" with your own anatomy to make sure they've dealt with similar anatomy to yours before.
Provider Review
Dr. Oseka Onuma
NOT a cosmetic surgeon - not someone to go to if you want natural results for labiaplasty, he truly believes almost zero labia to be the optimal result