Awesome! I’m about 7 months behind you, and dilating suuuuucks lmao.

Dilating really does suck, it can be really painful and take a long time, and it can be really debilitating and reduces how much time and energy you have for anything else in your life.

What depth did you achieve / want? Did you lose any, and were you able to regain it after time?

it’s sorta hard for me to know how to best measure depth, but basically the last dot on the dilator is visible still, the other dots are hidden - I think the depth is around 5 inches?

I don’t think I lost any depth, but I was very vigilant and prioritized dilation above all else. My concern was more with losing girth, but I managed to dilate up to orange for each dilation (after the initial work up to orange, which maybe took a couple weeks?)

I’m so excited to hear about it getting better at some point, it’s a bit painful at the moment. :(

For me it seemed to get easier rather suddenly, within a couple weeks span around that 6 month mark - I just noticed dilations didn’t cause so much pain that I was having to take meds, and they started to not take as long. Eventually they got easier and easier. I kept a log of my dilations, but I failed to keep track of when I initially started inserting, so that limits some of the usefulness of the information once I was using just the orange dilator from the beginning (instead of working up to orange first with smaller dilators), so, sorry I don’t have more fine-tuned answers

It’s so much better than having the parts I didn’t want! Congratulations!

That’s a really good way to put it, lol. I think my vagina falls short of a natal vagina for me personally, but I still fully endorse having a neo-vagina over what was there before, and in general it has been very healthy for me to have made this change (in so so so many ways, even just the reduction in anxiety when using a public bathroom or going through TSA to fly).