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I thought I read somewhere that if you were to be an eunuch,

you had to take special medecine or your dick would shrivel up.

Any truth to this?

Lovey (imported) wrote: Thu Jan 10, 2002 1:23 pm I thought I read somewhere that if you were to be an eunuch,

you had to take special medecine or your dick would shrivel up.

Any truth to this?

I am not sure there are any medications that would help. From my reading of the extant literature, the penis will get smaller over time. However, this is due to the fact that you are no longer getting as many nocturnal erections during sleep. About the only way to improve that situation would be to take testosterone.

From what I have read on the Internet most cocks shrink once the balls are off as it is the testosteron that does most of the work when it comes to sex drive and errections.

Testosteron can be perscribed by the Doctor and comes as either injections or patches.

There is pleanty of info on the Internet if you do a sherch for it.

I believe the dick shrivals because it dosent get used or become errect. That may seem a bit odd apparently even if we don't have sex or wank we get nightly errections in our sleep that helps maintain its usual lenght.

However some people after castration are able to still get a hard on.

But have some fun and do some research on the net.

Hope this helps.

It was 17 months ago today that I was castrated. So far my penis has shrunk approximately 25%.

Any castrated male should expect atrophy of the penis. Taking testosterone supplements may delay the inevitable.

I was castrated Dec., of 97. My penis shrunk so much that I had to sit to pee, putting my hand in front to cause the pee to be deflected down into the bowl. Then on top of that I got adhesions inside the erectile tissue, and I could not pull the dam thing out.

I eventually said "Fuck it, either I will get it to erect, or rip it off." I used a medical Vacuum pump to evacuate the air around my Cock, and it hurt like hell. My dick also got all Black, Blue, and dark Red, as the high Vacuum in the tube caused most of the capillaries, and small Veins to leak blood.

As soon as the body absorbed it all, I did it again, and kept doing it along with just grabbing my Cock and pulling Very painfully hard, and holding it thirty seconds, about twenty times a day. Now flaccid, it is between 1" and 3 & ½" long. Using the pump with not quite as strong a Vacuum, and a 10 mm = 0.39" inside diameter strong donut style Band around the base of my Cock, I can get it to 5 & 1/2", close to two" less then it was, before my castration.

What happened;

I was Poisoned by a med student, giving two medicines that separately cause 80% of the time, a loss of all testicles function. Together, they cause 100% of that, and more then a fifty percent death rate, from stroke, and heart attack.

Why I do not take HRT;

Until it was too late to sue, I was stopped from doing so. Don't ask how, I am sick of telling the same story since 1997.

I got the Patches, back at the start of March of this year. On March 10, I had about 40 small strokes, and 4 medium strokes. I went into the hospital, for some time there. I was tested, and after some time passed I was told not to take HRT. I am also on two types of Red Blood cell anti stickiness pills. And I can hemorrhage at any time.

Now why does this bother me? Because my testosterone level was always Very high, Over 1,100 total blood count till about 12/14 years ago. Then it slowed, and got lower, all the way down to about 750-/800 back in 1995. There are other problems, but the bottom line is that I have not had a natural Hardon since 12/97. Sex has always been the single most important part of my life, and now I am dead.

I'm not the least bit concerned with the size of my penis. To me testosterone is poison. I would never consider HRT. But I do have a question for Limpone. Please don't be offended by any of this and correct me if I'm wrong. It is my understanding that you regret being castrated and you seem to be very concerned about the size of your penis. So why don't you take HRT? I'm assuming you don't.

Limpone (imported) wrote: Fri Jan 11, 2002 1:39 am I was castrated Dec., of 97. My penis shrunk so much that I had to sit to pee,

this could be psychosomatic as well.

a kick in the groin so weak the balls don't explode should not make the balls stop fuctioning unless the victim becomes so

anxious something has happened that he becomes actually

physically ill of anxiosity showing allergic symptoms in which the

body starts to use its weapons against everything in the sore

area, friendly tissue too.

you should start to believe they work and they might work again.

Since the subject of shrinking of the penis has come up, I measured mine just now. A little over 3 inches, 8 months after castration. What was the length before castration? Don't know, never bothered to measure it. It will be interesting to see what happens in the future, now that I am paying attention to this subject.

I went to Dr. Spector for my castration more than 2 years ago. As far as I can tell, mine has not shrunk yet, though like Andrew I didn't bother to measure mine prior to castration.

Some of you mention the lack of erections causing shrinkage. Though my libido is way down, and I like having almost no sex drive, I still have occasional nighttime erections, so maybe that's why I have not noticed any shrinkage. This is really unfortunate for me, because I am uncomfortable with my penis and wish it did shrink:( . I guess I will have to take more direct action to lose it (either SRS or penectomy).

Now interestingly I started taking low dose estrogen (1 mg Estrace) two months ago, and I don't recall any nighttime erections lately, so maybe this will put a stop to them. But recently I did have an orgasm when I seemed to be half awake, yet my penis was not erect when it happened.

Sherry (imported) wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2002 7:47 am I went to Dr. Spector for my castration more than 2 years ago. As far as I can tell, mine has not shrunk yet, though like Andrew I didn't bother to measure mine prior to castration.

Some of you mention the lack of erections causing shrinkage. Though my libido is way down, and I like having almost no sex drive, I still have occasional nighttime erections, so maybe that's why I have not noticed any shrinkage. This is really unfortunate for me, because I am uncomfortable with my penis and wish it did shrink:( . I guess I will have to take more direct action to lose it (either SRS or penectomy).

Now interestingly I started taking low dose estrogen (1 mg Estrace) two months ago, and I don't recall any nighttime erections lately, so maybe this will put a stop to them. But recently I did have an orgasm when I seemed to be half awake, yet my penis was not erect when it happened.

Just a bit of curiosity on my part. I was under the impression that you wanted as much of the scrotum and penis as possible to be avaialable for the final SRS

I sent an e-mail to Dr. Spector asking for what information he had concerning shrinkage of the penis. Here is his reply...

Dear Harry:

First, penile shrinkage is a part of the castration effect--there is little interest and activity in sex afterwards, so one can think of atrophy of disuse. There would be little concern--even satisfaction--on the part of such ex-patients, usually considering this as part of the desired process. So those to whom this is of concern are left with a greater sexual effect, not the usual but it happens. Then there is the matter of diminished testosterone level, which could likewise have an effect of penile shrinkage. But I haven't been made aware that this has been an important problem. In fact, many patients sit to urinate, whether before or afterward.

Lovey (imported) wrote: Thu Jan 10, 2002 1:23 pm I thought I read somewhere that if you were to be an eunuch,

you had to take special medecine or your dick would shrivel up.

Any truth to this?

god i hope so that is all i've ever wanted is a pee-pee that doesnt work. thanks

Andrew (imported) wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2002 10:27 am Just a bit of curiosity on my part. I was under the impression that you wanted as much of the scrotum and penis as possible to be avaialable for the final SRS

True, but OTOH until I do get surgery I have to live with the parts that remain, and I fear that could be quite a while. Given my progress on facial electrolysis to date, and that I started feminizing HRT recently, I hope to do the workplace transition (or rather, find a new workplace to transition into) hopefully sometime in 2003. But after that, I have no idea how I will fund SRS since I will likely have increased living expenses, plus maintaining HRT and a hair replacement system, and a possible decrease in income. At this time at least, I can't predict what year I would get the surgery.

It would have been nice if the remaining parts had shrunk in the meantime. Many TSs experience shrinkage of the parts while on HRT anyway, whether or not castrated, so SRS surgeons are used to working with shrunken parts.

Sherry, I have to agree that most surgeons that perform SRS ops are used to using the skin from shrunken parts, however.....

Remember that the quantity of SKIN that is available determines the size of the vagina. I would suggest that stretching the penile and scrotal skin on a regular (daily) basis is a good idea..... You will note that I am not suggesting that getting an erection is important , it is not... but to keep the size of the skin is in your best interests if you are heading for gender reassignment surgery.

I am always amazed at the variety of responses to questions regarding effects of castration. I think the only conclusion one can draw from all these variations is that it depends on the individual.

Just to add to the confusion here is my experience:

I was castrated in April 1997. Just to confuse the issue even further I took HRT for about a year, stopping again last August. I believe my penis has shrunk some and my empty scrotum definitely has, but as to how much it is very difficult to say. I still get erections, but not very often. My penis always was rather small when not erect, so it gives the illusion of having shrunk a great deal, but it is as much illusion as fact. Nevertheless when it is REALLY shrunken, it can get as small as 1" or so.

I have never had a problem using urinals, but frankly I usually prefer to sit to pee when I'm home anyway, so that is a non-issue for me.

I still have lots and lots of sexual thoughts, but these thoughts do not result in the urgent need for relief they used to. I can't even remember the last time I had an orgasm, and it is no longer important to me. :p