UK - C&W
Hi team Ive just had my first consult at C&W for phalloplasty and I was horrified.
The surgeon didn’t seem to know what she was talking about. She got basic facts wrong. She told me it was 2 nights in hospital post stage 1. I queried it and she said she was definitely right. NVH has 5 nights in hospital minimum, and they do less in stage 1. I asked about the complication rates, she said they “didn’t really matter”, but that there was a 60% complication rate with stage 1 that would require further surgery. She told me she didn’t really believe that nerve hook up works, but that she’d “try it anyway”. I started getting suspicious after all this, so I asked what her experience was.
She told me she had not done phalloplasty before and neither had the other surgeon on the team. She told me she had only observed phalloplasty over the past few years.
How is the NHS allowing these people to do phallo? Im trying to switch to NVH now because theres no way I am trusting her. Given that the NVH wait list isn’t as long as it has been in the past once you get your referral accepted, I regret my decision to switch massively.