21 Year Old, No Kids - Canmore, AB

I have wanted a labiaplasty as long as I knew what one was. When I moved from Saskatchewan to Alberta for school I thought now was as good a time as ever to get one. Alberta had more options for doctors than Sask. But even here in Alberta I only found 2 doctors that out right advertised the procedure. I chose the doctor to do my surgery based on price. I know thats not how it should have gone but unfortunately I did not have the $6000 to get it done by a Doctor in Calgary. I am a student who paid for this herself $6000 was not manageable. So I opted for a doctor who was just outside Calgary by an hour and a half or so and the procedure was $3000.

I arrived and everyone was very nice. The nurse assisting him took me into the room where they would be preforming the procedure and gave me two adivan for my nerves. This was optional and I opted for 2 pills instead of 1 because I have taken adivan before and find it has a very mild effect on me. After that she gave me a gown to put on but I could keep my top and bra on so I did. She then handed me a dixie cup of what I presume to be a lidocaine cream of some sort. She gave me a glove and said to rub this in all over "down there". We did that once waited 10 min and did it again. And waited a little longer again and we actually did it again. Needless to say I couldn't feel a thing.

The Doctor joined us and proceeded to use needles for extra/internal freezing. I read before my procedure that a lot of woman find this part painful but because we used so much numbing cream I didn't feel a thing! What a relief. After that they got right to it. The nurse doctor and I kept a conversation going the entire time everyone was very relaxed. Procedure took probably 45 min. We opted for the trim procedure. I really didn't want to keep the dark pigmented skin that you see on the end of the labia's and we also did a minor clitoral hood reduction as well so he recommended the trim being the best way to go about getting the results I want.

The drive home (hour and half drive) was all good and fine until the freezing wore off and my friend took a wrong turn on the drive home and we ended up taking a bumpy backroad back to Calgary that probably took us close to 2 hours. Needless to say by that point I was in pain. We picked up my prescription and I took 2 pills right away. The T3's are very effective in controlling the pain. I went to sleep pretty much as soon as I settled in at home.

Here is where this started to go a little sidewise.... I woke up around 3 AM and there was blood on my sheets. I had bled through the pad and my underwear I was a little surprised. I go to the bathroom to get myself cleaned up and my clitoral hood area is consistently dripping blood. Being that I am a nursing student I am use to blood and was not all that alarmed so I got a new pad and underwear and went back to bed. 20 min later I felt wet, sure enough I had bled through another pad. So I did this song and dance a couple more times thinking that I had torn a stitch and the wound would soon clot if I held pressure. I went and sat on my couch with my hips elevated and pressure on the wound. I thought I had stopped the bleeding so I stood up to return to bed and blood spilled down my legs. I decided to call the doctor at this point. He said I really shouldn't be bleeding at all and I said I definitely was so he asked me to come back to his clinic. A little out of the way but I would not have been comfortable going anywhere else. So I packed the wound the best I could with toilet paper and baby wipes. I had a pad on, underwear, shorts and pants. By the time I got to the clinic (hour and half drive) I had bled through everything. The doctor was waiting for me at the clinic with his wife who is also a doctor. They were both surprised at the amount of blood. I took off my pants and underwear and it was running down my legs onto the floor making quite a mess. When we got to be bottom of the bleed it was an open artery on the clitoral hood (don't quote me on my anatomy here this goes a little beyond nursing school) But you could see the blood pulsing out. So we had to put more sutures in and unfortunately that meant using the needles for freezing this time without the numbing cream. I will be honest I cried my eyes out it definitely was painful. The bleeding stopped when the freezing was administered but we knew when the freezing wore off I would have the same problem. But so he had to rub the area to find where the bleed was and this again brought me to tears. His wife was very good rubbing my arm and letting me squeeze her hand. Because I had gotten a clitoral hood reduction the previous day rubbing or even bumping that area was extremely painful. I know he was really not trying to hurt me by any means its just what had to be done. But finally we got that fixed up we waited around for a little bit to see if I would bleed more but luckily I didn't. He said It was good I came in that bleed would not have stopped on its own.

I should mention it was very nice of him to come in and open his clinic for me on GOOD FRIDAY instead of sending me to a hospital in Calgary.

So now that I am home the pain in manageable, it's really starting to swell considering today is technically day 2. But over all I spend a lot of time laying down, sleeping and just recovering so I'm not in a lot of pain.

I am excited for an actuals nights rest.

My results its obviously way too early to tell what its going to look like so only time will tell, in my opinion it can't look any worse than it did before!

I wish I had taken a before picture but I didn't so sorry about that.

I would say moral of the story if you think something is wrong don't wait! Call the doctor thats what they are there for!

I see a lot of updates on this site for people that have received wedge procedures and my recover looks a fair amount different because of the method we used which was the trim. Things are still looking a little scary but bruising and swelling has gone down in a lot of areas. The clitoral hood area is still by far the most painful area as well as still very swollen. If you read my earlier post you will know I had to go back and get extra sutures put into this area due to excessive bleeding. I will continue to update if people find it helpful! Not a lot of Canadian reviews on here either so hopefully this is helping someone!

So it's been a week since my procedure and I think I am just being impatient and wanting things to start to look normal but why do I feel like things looked better two days ago as opposed to now? There is some new bruising and swelling which I highlight in some of the pictures. I think this is due to me returning back to school and moving around more than I have been. Another concern I am having is there are two "bumps" is what I am calling them due to a lack of better words. They do not appear to attach to my labia's but also not part of the hood but they sit right underneath it I have them circles in one of the pics. These two "bumps" will be the death of me. They are sensitive to everything and anything. Clothing especially. I have to use folded tissue paper as padding almost to make it bearable to wear pants. I am a little frustrated my doctor is hard to get a hold of due to him being busy. He has me booked in for an 8 week follow up appointment that just seems so far away and I have a lot of questions right now about how things are healing and it would be nice to get a little more reassurance from him. Anyways that's all I really have to report, still waiting for things to start resembling a vagina again...