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Chemical castration/ penis reduction


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I'm new here and trying to begin HRT, I know this will shrink the male sex organs some and mine is quite small to begin with and will retract inside of me sometimes anyway. Is there any type of medication or topical treatment to affect even more reduction than that caused by the HRT, maybe even ideally permanent retraction into the body

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Dana

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None that I know of, Dana. Most herbal treatments that claim to be a substitute for prescription medicines and hormones are at best worthless, and at worst dangerous. There are no easy alternatives, and if there were, we would have tried them and not gone the HRT and surgery route.

BTW, welcome to the Playground. When you get a chance, please do post in the Introductions Forum.

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Carolyn Marie

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Welcome to Laura's. I hope you are seeing a gender therapist as using prescription hormones in a controlled way is not only cheaper and more effective than other methods but it is safer as well.

My penis has stayed more or less the same but never enlarges at this point of time and i had an orchiectomy which made the whole package much smaller.

They do say that milage varies so your results could be different.

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Charlize

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What about physical castration?

You're talking about an orchiectomy, which involves outpatient surgery. It is possible and not nearly as expensive or involving as GRS/GCS.

Carolyn Marie

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I would love to have them removed , every time I'm near a razor blade I think of them but I'm not a cutter,just always a thought- wierd..Is castration painful and does insurance ever cover it?

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Castration aka Orchiectomy is covered by insurance IF your doctor declares it to be "medically necessary" which comes from a joint effort of your primary care doctor and your Gender Therapy team. It is done on an outpatient basis in a hospital. Results do vary on the healing, but while there is discomfort for several days in most cases, some have no pain or discomfort, and others do have pain and lingering discomfort.

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Thankyou for the reply, I would love to have them removed so I'll see if my Dr. approves. It would be a tremendous relief to have them gone

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Hi Dana,

Since your testicles are small enough to be retractile, has your doctor ever had your karyotype checked for Klinefelter's syndrome aka 47 XXY chromosomal anomaly? My doctor is going to have mine checked now that a Genetic Counselor has determined that I am likely to have Klinefelter's syndrome. My testicles are also small, and kinda soft. When I was young I used to put them back up inside, but I haven't tried that as an adult. I have most of the symptoms of Klinefelter's syndrome, including the small testicles. My somewhat anomalous phallus has distal hypospadias as well. Personally I am just a bit concerned with how much the GCS procedure may have to be modified due to my intersex genitalia. My wonderful boyfriend Alex is going in to consult with Dr. Satterwhite about top surgery soon (he is trans), and I will go with him so that I can speak with the surgeon, since he is the one most likely to do my GCS as well. In any case, Klinefelter's syndrome is not very rare, so you might want to get checked for it, it is the most common form of chromosomal anomaly in humans, about 1 in 500 or thereabouts.

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Stephanie

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I would feel most natural having my GCS modified also to a penis style clitoris with an opening underneath if that were possible to construct

Dana

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