What should you expect after a labioplasty in Sydney?

Most labioplasty procedures are performed as day surgery in fully licensed hospitals. This ensures your safety after your labioplasty in Sydney.
Side effects that may occur after a labioplasty in Sydney
In the first 24 hours, it is normal to expect the following symptoms:-
•    Drowsiness
•    Dry throat
•    Nausea (possibly)
•    Discomfort and stiffness

Pain management after your labioplasty

The local anaesthetic helps with pain control for the first evening but has usually worn off by the following morning. This is usually the time when patients feel the most soreness. Regularly taking paracetamol and anti inflammatories for the first few days after the operation is important in minimising your discomfort and need for stronger pain killers. Patients usually report that labioplasty surgery recovery as discomfort, but everyone is different, and your experience cannot be predicted. Pain that is more than moderate should be assessed by Dr Gavin Sandercoe or his team.
Dr Gavin Sandercoe closes the labia minora using dissolving sutures so that you do not have to experience the discomfort of suture removal. These sutures are covered with surgical glue, and you are given a tube of local anaesthetic gel to use when you urinate if there is any discomfort.
Return to activity after your labioplasty in Sydney
You should expect to be mostly comfortable at about 1 week post operatively. By the time you are reviewed by the practice nurse, most patients are back to work if they have desk jobs. Gently walking is the only exercise you should plan on doing for the first few weeks.
By the time of your 3 week follow up appointment, it is reasonable to return to the gym or restart running. Sexual intercourse should also wait until this time. Your body will tell you (with pain) if you are trying too soon. When you feel pain, it’s important that you back off and wait a few days before trying that activity again, rather than “pushing through the pain.” Allowing time for your body to heal will result in the fewest risks after your labioplasty surgery in Sydney.

Follow up after your labioplasty in Sydney

You will be asked to see Dr Gavin Sandercoe for several follow up appointments to ensure that your body is healing well from the procedure. This also allows your Specialist Plastic Surgeon in Sydney to treat any complications that occur. You will have appointments scheduled at one and three weeks with our practice nurse, and three months post operatively with Dr Gavin Sandercoe after your labioplasty in Sydney. If there are any problems, we want to hear from you and sort it out as soon as possible!