#ftm electrolysis

Since I moved I had to find a new electrologist and last week I had my first appointment :) And it is so much better! The new person doing it is a part of the electrolysis association of Texas (don’t remember the actual name) and used to be their president. She told me that the person I was going to before was using a really old machine (like 25 years old apparently because it still had dials instead of a digital interface) so it hurts a lot less. The bumps go away in a few minutes instead of hours and the scabs are going away in a few days instead of weeks. It costs about twice as much but I feel a lot better about it and I think it’s going to get done more efficiently now. So if you’re getting electrolysis soon you should check out the machhine they’re using, this newer one has a metal handheld thing that completes the circuit or something and it uses precise pulses of electricity instead of a foot petal. Also after there’s a metal stick thing that she uses to push this healing cream into the skin with electromagnets or something (it mostly went over my head when she explained it but it feels nice lol)

I have been taking a break from electrolysis because of financial reasons and I wanted to see how it looked without all the scabs and grown out a bit, so it’s been about 2 months and it’s looking good, the first pic is my left arm where I’ve had it and the 2nd is my right arm for comparison. I think about 60% of the hair is gone, and Im not going to be worried if I don’t have 100% off by March anyway, I can always do it after. And the last pic is my donor arm compared to a normal size bottle of water because I have pretty long forearms (especially compared to guys who’s arms I’ve seen after this surgery it seems) and Dr. Crane said that plus me being kinda chubby will hopefully equal a big and long phallus which is what I want. I have about 6 months left before surgery and right now I’m kinda worried about getting this insurance stuff figured out, it’s complicated but there’s a decent chance I won’t be covered and then my plan B is to do a payment plan. Which I couldn’t even do that except my mom says she’ll be able to help me with the payments if I need it. Just know there’s no way I can let this surgery date go, I heard a few weeks ago that right now he’s booking out to at least march 2019 unless he can get more OR time in the hospital. I’m planning on moving to another state and applying to graduate school after my surgery so I feel like I’m stuck right now waiting and I can’t be stuck another year. On the cheerier side I think I’m going to be moving to Austin soon, I figure it will be easier than staying in an air bnb for a month and driving a ways to all my post ops after. Also where I am is a stressful environment and my job here is not paying me enough to save up for this shit, so if anyone on here lives in Austin and has some helpful info on jobs/housing there message me please :)