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A Guide to SRS

Lubricant

Directly after surgery while your incisions haven’t fully closed you’ll probably want to use a bacteriostatic lubricant such as Surgilube.

Lubricants I have tried

“enjoy” Lovehoney $0.0659/mL
  • Smells like nothing
  • pH matched
  • Good consistency for dilating (not runny liquid, not thick gel)
  • My current lubricant of choice and recommendation to you

“H2O Original” JO $0.1083/mL
  • Very liquid
  • I found it useful to use in conjunction with the “enjoy” Lovehoney lubricant
    • the enjoy lube forms the body while H2O made it more slippery
  • You don’t need as much of this as with the gel lubricants
  • I don’t currently use this

“Almost Naked” Good Clean Love $0.2517/mL
  • “nicer” ingredients
  • pH matched
  • Expensive!
  • Has a hypoallergenic version
  • I bought it once when i was on a real “oh god my vaginal microflora I’m killing them” moment
  • If I were to use it again it would probably be when I’m at the point of dilating once a week, even then I’d feel like I was getting ripped off.

“Lubrigel”
  • Has a pungent odour
  • pH 7
  • mystery ingredients
  • annoying consistency
  • Not recommended

Lubricants I haven’t tried but I have heard about

“Cum Lube® Clear ” Bad Dragon $0.0375/mL
  • The listed ingredients are not bad.
  • Half the price per mL of the lovehoney lubricant.
  • By far the cheapest I have found.

“Liquid” Good Clean love
  • Does not ship to Australia

“H2O original” Sliquid

“Slippery Stuff” Slipperystuff

“Surgilube”

Coconut oil
  • Seems like a bad idea
  • Would be a hard clean up

My ideal lubricant is one that:

  • Is water based
    • Easy to clean
    • More tolerable for your body
    • Less reported issues
    • Won’t damage your dilators
  • Doesn’t have harmful ingredients
    • You need to use this daily for a long time
  • Is affordable and easily available
  • Is unscented
  • Has no numbing agents
    • Although this would be nice, you need to be able to feel what’s going on to avoid hurting yourself.

A decent lubricant is something that I personally struggled with finding. And even more so just figuring out what I should be looking for was hard enough. My initial thought was that since I’ve had PPV, and now have peritoneum inside my vagina producing a neutral pH liquid, that I should also find a neutral pH lubricant so I can build and not disrupt the microflora developing in the vagina. However, I discovered there are no neutral pH lubricants out there that fit the bill. Neutral pH lubricants are typically either for surgical use (containing antibacterial agents) or for anal use.

I had inherited some bottles of “Lubrigel” from a woman that had previously had SRS. This stuff had a strange smell and was not excellent. This is what I used initially before branching out. Since it was such a problem to find, I just went for regular vaginal lubricant aimed at cis women. This worked out fine.

While I have not tried oil or silicone based lubricants, I have not read a single good word about them online other than that they last longer than water based ones (which is a negative in some cases).

  • They can damage dilators and condoms
  • Your body may not tolerate them
  • They are likely not very good for your vaginal microbiota

I’ve been using “pH matched” i.e. typical cisgender vaginal pH lubricants for over a year and it’s been fine. Everything smells normal, except for a few hours right after I’ve dilated. I imagine this is a result of disturbing the vaginal microflora as well as from the lubricant itself.

Another guide to lubricants

https://dangerouslilly.com/lube-guide/
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