35 Year Mom of 2, Surgical Vaginal Rejuvenation

External surgery: while this was sheerly cosmetic it was something I was self conscious about for years. I’m now confident with the aesthetic of my vagina.
Internal: my vagina is now tight and my previous concerns are resolved. Was it expensive? Yes. Absolutely worth every penny and I would recommend Dr Owens a million times over, she is an angel and she knows what she is doing. Genuine and such a doll.

At this point I’m between 4-5 weeks out. I still have stitches that haven’t dissolved. I have had some come out but some feel like they are stabbing me in the vagina. It’s almost like plastic fishing string the clear kind. It hurts. She trimmed it down some. I was able to get a finger in there and it does seem tighter. The true test will be when I have sex for the first time after- that will be at 8 weeks. It was a mutual decision to wait that long, better safe than sorry. She called in a cream for me we are trying to get my insurance to pay for it. I’m mostly healed, I’d say a good 75 percent at least. My perineum has fused together. I think at 8 weeks out it should be fine. Hopefully my stitches will be dissolved by then- they have been very slow to dissolve. Dr Owens is such a nice person and a pleasure to talk to. She really makes you feel comfortable and at home. I can tell she is very pleased with my results. So far so good except I miss my exercise. I was on such a good track with it- it’s a big stress reliever for me and I miss it. Can’t wait for my final results.

I had my procedure done yesterday. Right now I can only really comment on how it looks on the outside because I can’t really tell about the inside. The outside looks a lot better, I finally feel like my vagina looks “normal” after 35 years & don’t feel self conscious of the way it looks. Before it always looked kind of “open” like my inner labia was hanging out & I didn’t like that, I wanted it to look more tucked in if that makes sense. So in the 1st photo you can see the stitches and everything that’s because the nurses were showing it for the photo. In the second photo it is how it really looks, which is just what I wanted. I had posterior wall repair & perineum repair also. The perineum repair looks very good. I can’t tell about the inside yet because I don’t want to mess with it but what she said she did is basically remove some tissue from the inside and pull the muscles that separated during childbirth closer together so it would be tighter. I won’t know the results of that portion until quite some time from now, at least 6 weeks. We had to have the surgery at the hospital rather than her office because my iron & hemoglobin levels were low due to me having a baby 6 months ago. I had lost a lot of blood during childbirth and I had a transfusion at the hospital. My blood pressure was also very high due to preeclampsia and I’m taking meds to regulate it. So Dr Owens felt more comfortable having it at the hospital because of the risk, however everything went perfectly and there were no problems.
The whole surgery lasted 3 hours or so. She did take her home with it and made sure she got the result we were looking for. I was awake the whole time. I didn’t feel much other than pulling. Occasionally there was a spot that I wast numb that had to be re-numbed. It was less pain than I anticipated.(When the lidocaine initially wore off I was in a lot of pain, it has mostly subsided at least while I’m laying in bed.) I had to keep my legs in elevated stirrups so at times they would start to shake and I would have to readjust a little bit. Dr Owens was very good about answering my questions during the procedure and keeping me posted. There was a good bit of skin trimmed off the labia. I can’t really see what it looks like with the stitches because it’s tucked in and I don’t want to pull on it or mess with it and risk anything separating.
But it looks great and I’m very happy with it. Dr Owens has a great bedside manner and she puts you at ease. I am quite pleased with the results so far. I’ve wanted to look like this my whole life and struggled with being self conscious about it since I was in my teens. I will update more once I have an idea of the tightness.