If you get a simple meta, you will most likely be discharged from the hospital the day of your operation. If you get a meta with PUL you can expect to stay in the hospital for two nights and use a catheter to urinate for 2-3 weeks. It is completely normal to experience swelling and bruising around your genital area; this will slowly decrease over the next few weeks. For most patients, after about 6 months, the swelling is expected to completely resolve and you should be able to clearly see your final surgical result. For some, this may take longer.

Starting the day after surgery, patients are encouraged to walk lightly to help reduce the risk of blood clots. Lighter physical activities should not be taken up until about 4 weeks post op. If there are no complications, patients can often return to work after about a month post-op. Many patients who undergo a simple meta can begin to engage in light sexual activity, like gentle manual stimulation, six weeks after surgery. We encourage patients who undergo urethral lengthening to wait 3 months before engaging in any sexual activity alone or with a partner. Likewise, at least three months should go by before a patient can use a penis pump to facilitate their ability to have penetrative sex.

Having a urethral lengthening, vaginectomy and scrotoplasty as a part of your initial procedure can increase the levels of pain and complication risk that a patient will undergo during recovery. We encourage you to stay patient with the healing process, tap into your networks for emotional support and reach out to us for any questions about recovery in real-time. Once you are a GCC patient you will always be a GCC patient. We are committed to doing everything in our power to ease your recovery process so that you can enjoy your surgical results once you have fully healed.