fyi, highest chance of regret among trans procedures is vaginoplasty at 2% regret rate. still absurdly good.
for reference, the complication rate is 20-50%, or even north of 80% depending on how they’re counting complications - some stuff happens to basically everyone. this means even people with serious complications - those typically come in somewhere around 5% - don’t universally regret these procedures. the concern trolling around regret has absolutely no basis in reality.
Can you offer some context for the word “complications”? I’m guessing my non-medical brain is making that word way more scary than it is, at least in the mild cases
it ranges from really normal stuff like granulation tissue, where blood vessels proliferate along the lines where new tissue needs to grow and it kind of refuses to ever finish healing without repeated interventions, to the also very common complication of tissue necrosis, which sounds more serious than it actually is – fat especially doesn’t like to be moved and it dies off in the reconstructed structure often enough that they frequently need to do a revision to put it back in place – and wound separation, where the incisions don’t actually close and the reconstructed structures can come away from their new homes and refuse to close up. the last one happened to a friend, where she was accidentally dilating the wrong hole, literally sticking a plastic rod into separated tissue and into her body underneath her new vaginal cavity. more serious complications for vaginoplasty in particular include rectovaginal fistulas where the rectum is damaged during the surgery and decides to grow a new outlet into the vagina – fecal matter can and will be evacuated through the neovagina instead of sole through the anus when this happens. nerve damage is in between these in rarity and some people wind up with permanent pain or experience a drastic loss in sensation. granulation tissue happens to basically everyone – it’s that complication that happens to 80+% of people undergoing genital surgeries – while fistulas are more like 2-5% depending on the surgeon. virtually everyone experiences some loss in sensation as they necessarily remove a lot of nerves – they literally can’t preserve all the old nerves.
That’s nothing, being born has a 100% regret rate
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I think big joint replacements can be pretty dicey.
There was a documentary called the Bleeding Edge (I think) that I saw years ago about how lax regulations of medical devices can be.
It doesn’t help that anything remotely socially useful, like medical device design and engineering, inevitably pays shit enough that most people leave for better paying jobs. The all mighty market decided that engineers should be crunching data to market medical devices instead of improve them.
I know a couple people who have had knee replacements and it’s usually sold to them as a cure all for their joint problems, and often times not only will it not return you knee to what it was 30 years ago (which some doctors will apparently tell you) but all of your existing problems will likely persist in someway but at a more manageable level.
That’s actually so good. I think for more context of other medical procedures, a minimum of 20% of spinal fusions for instance fail to treat back pain.
Hell yeah. TIL!
