Hello all! 1 month ago I had bottom surgery with Dr. Sarah Eidelson at District Plastic Surgery in DC. Given that she is relatively newer compared to a lot of other names often dropped in this subreddit, including her colleague Dr. Ramineni, I figured I'd make a post about my experience and results thus far!

Honestly I cannot say enough good things, needless to say I am over the moon with my results! I dealt with some dehiscense at the fourchette which was at its worst around 2 weeks (likely due to the stress and strain of flying back home), but as you can see it's been healing very fast and with no complications aside from a tiny bit of hypergranulation that I'm currently treating with hydrocortisone and bacitracin. Otherwise everything has been startlingly smooth honestly, I've been repeatedly surprised by how well and how quickly the healing process has been going.

I went with Eidelson for a few reasons: she was in network with my insurance, she previously did a fellowship with Dr. Brassard at GRS Montreal whose aesthetics I really love, she did not require hair removal due to the follicle scraping done during surgery, and she had a fairly quick turnaround time from consultation to surgery. I had a consultation with her over the phone in December 2025 and at the end of the consult we had scheduled my surgery date for May. After wanting bottom surgery for over a decade it almost felt unreal how quickly things got moving lol

Honestly the worst part of the surgery process was the bowel prep the day before, drinking a whole bottle of magnesium citrate is not something I can recommend to anyone unless you absolutely have to, felt like drinking poison lmao. The day of surgery was the only day I had any significant pain, and while it was pretty bad a couple times that day it was generally kept well in check with a slew of painkillers, frequent naps, and being slightly loopy coming down from the anesthesia. Within the first week my pain level was consistently 2-3 and shortly after returning home I was able to stop taking painkillers altogether. Dr. Eidelson and her team had great bedside manner, as did most of the nurses I encountered at GWU Hospital where the surgery was performed.

This has all just been the most affirming and joyful experience for me, it's sort of been overwhelming at times. I can't stop marveling at the fact that I have a vagina now, it's incredible. And healing has gone so fast! Swelling and bruising are both almost entirely gone now, I'm not bleeding anymore and I'm barely discharging. There's still quite a lot of stitches waiting to come out and my scars are still quite visible of course but in general it's been so much more of a smooth process than I was worried it might be.

All in all I can't recommend Dr. Eidelson enough, I am so happy with my results and I'm looking so forward to how she'll look further down the line. Also very excited to begin my doctor-mandated clitoris exploration now that I've hit the 1 month mark :3

Feel free to ask any questions I'd be happy to try and answer! Hopefully this is helpful to some of y'all <3

1 month post-op PIV with Dr. Eidelson