u/Ryn_333

vnectomy failed - has this happened to anyone else

Hi. About five weeks ago I had a colpectomy (also called a vaginectomy or vnectomy) combined with a hysterectomy, robot-assisted. It stopped bleeding, and since it didn't feel right from the start (no pain there, it didn't feel like it was scabbing at all), I needed to know what had actually been done and I explored. I was aware they would leave about 2cm of mucosal lining near the exit, but there appears to be about 8-10 cm left, which is definitely not supposed to happen. It doesn't feel like scar tissue. It still produces the same amount of fluid as it did before surgery.

I don't yet know if the surgeon just didn't do his job and lied about it somehow, or if it healed wrong/the sides just didn't stick together. Neither option logically makes any sense. Neither even seems possible.

Before I got this surgery, they went through a long list of potential complications with me, and I was not told that it would be possible for the vnectomy to simply not work. Has this happened to anyone else? Is it even possible to fix this with a second surgery?

I am distraught and confused and ridiculously dysphoric.

I am nonbinary and I am not on testosterone, and I don't know if lack of atrophy down there may have caused mine to heal differently than anyone else's. I'm sorry if I'm not allowed to post to an ftm subreddit. I'm not very familiar with reddit and I don't know where to find people who might have relevant experience. I can't call the clinic until monday.

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u/Ryn_333 — 6 days ago