In touch with Suporn girls

[LauraGirl]

Dear all,

I have booked my SRS with dr Suporn for November the 20th. It would be lovely to get in touch with some post-op Suporn girls and sharing their experience.

Many thanks,

Laura

[Elainagirl59]

Hi Laura,

I had SRS with Dr Suporn in December, 2010.  I would be
happy to discuss my experiences.

Best Wishes,
Elaina

[milktea]

hi i had mine with him too...search my posts or feel free to pm me if there is any particular qn

[LauraGirl]

Many thanx for your reactions.

I am sorry for my late reply but I had three weeks ago my 2nd FFS with a breast enlangement. The recovery took a while.

I am planning to go back to work after 2 months of my SRS with dr Suporn but I am still struggling for the dilatation roster. I was told you ought to dilate three times a day the first three months post SRS. It means if you dilate in the morning, you should repeat it back in the afternoon and not during lunch time?

[GendrKweer]

Dr Suporn's most simple instruction was: if it gets harder, dilate more often, if it is easier, you can go easier. I was dilating 2 times a day for six months, never three times. I went off the largest size for a few months when it got really hard, in months 2, 3 and 4, only using the small and the medium to full depth, and didn't touch the big one at all. Then, around six or seven months on, I tried the big one, and after only three or four sessions, got that one going again. Now ten months in, I only dilate once every few days, and have no issues.

[LauraGirl]

Dr Suporn's most simple instruction was: if it gets harder, dilate more often, if it is easier, you can go easier. I was dilating 2 times a day for six months, never three times. I went off the largest size for a few months when it got really hard, in months 2, 3 and 4, only using the small and the medium to full depth, and didn't touch the big one at all. Then, around six or seven months on, I tried the big one, and after only three or four sessions, got that one going again. Now ten months in, I only dilate once every few days, and have no issues.

Many thanks!

I will stay in Chonburi for 6 weeks all alone. I am a bit worried I won't be able to 'fill' my time. Normally I read lots of books but with the limited weight of luggage allowed, I won't be able to carry enough to survive these six weeks. An eReader may be the solution but I hate reading from a screen. Perhaps I am just old-fashioned for this kind of stuff.
Sometimes I feel like a real freak, I mean 'freaking out' for everything because of the tension having my SRS in the near future. I count off daily, I am really scared of what will come, just double checking everything all the time. I hope I wouldn't be that freaky as I was for my FFS and BA but I've got a similar feeling at the moment.

Although I am quite anxious about the surgery, I am really longing for it as it will be the end of this goddamned transition.

[Adabelle]

Don't worry!

There will be others there. Just go to breakfast and don't be afraid to make friends. Send the other girls notes in the hospital while you are there - reach out! People will befriend you.

Make sure you have a computer with you so you can post to this forum and listen to music and that sort of thing. If you like to read bring a book. In reality after surgery only the first couple weeks is full of complete rest, after that you can make your way across the street and shop a little or go out to eat with your new friends. And you'll be spending three hours a day dilating - so there's plenty to do

DONT WORRY!!

[GendrKweer]

If you're alone, making friends is extra important.... my lovely wife helped out a few other girls run some errands after their surgery, because it is major surgery and a lot of us weren't in any mood to get out of bed for any length of time. So you might be a lucky one, running around a week later, or you might be one like me, who is catheterized and lays around in bed 23 hours a day for four weeks. I seriously couldn't sit or stand upright for more than twenty minutes at a time for many weeks, and spent the rest of the time laying on my back in bed, dilating or watching cnn or browsing or all three at once. lulz A laptop will be ESSENTIAL. (Sadly, out of an otherwise excellent and thoughtful experience, wifi at the chon inter is NOT free. Oh well....) On a side note, several of us noticed those girls who really got on their feet and were in the markets, etc, very soon after the surgery, seemed to get more minor complications than ones who gave themselves rest. So maybe even if you feel like you can power through it, maybe you shouldn't. Something to think about...

[Layn]

Ah the wifi at the hotel is free if you book for at least 27 days straight. My parents got two login codes for free because of that. I didn't because i checked out for the duration of my hospital stay. had 2 nights, pause, and then 17. This means for the first chunk i'd have to pay full price internet and for the second chunk i think it would be half off. With 6 weeks you should get the package with the free internet.
You'll never feel alone. I haven't been out much (stuck in the hospital ), but from my experience before and from what my parents tell me, you keep meeting wonderful people and make good friends. Of course that won't happen at the hospital, but as i mentioned you'll always have the really nice staff around you (sometimes even a bit too often) and may get visits from other women waiting for their surgery and even have people who are accompanying someone else visit you. Everyone forms strong bonds, even people who are just accompanying. I was a bit shy about talking to everyone else, but as soon as i got to the clinic i met so many nice people and started to immediately feel at home. The ones who've been here longer will do everything to make you feel safe and welcome and i'm really glad for it.

Now i'm just reading most of the time and dozing off to music. I don't like eBook readers either, but it probably would have been the best for this trip. I was however able to bring several books with me, because i didn't bring too much stuff in my luggage (and brought the heaviest one with me in the hand luggage).

Even though i'm feeling really fit (walked today, no problems, just my sense of balance was a bit off) i'm as GendrKweer suggests trying to rest next week. I'll probably stay in my room at first and later i'll go to the lobby at most. Well probably to the door so i can get some outside air for once.

[LauraGirl]

I've got another query: where would you keep your dilators when travelling back home because airline companies can sometimes lose your luggage. Keeping dilators in your hand luggage could be a solution?

Any thoughts?

[Adabelle]

I personally brought the travel dilator with me and the glass ones in luggage. That way in case one got lost I'd have the other.

[GendrKweer]

I personally brought the travel dilator with me and the glass ones in luggage. That way in case one got lost I'd have the other.

This. 

[Layn]

Oh lost baggage! Didn't even think of that! Any way to get it through x-ray without awkwardness?

[Jenna Marie]

I drove back from GRS, so it wasn't an issue then, but Brassard gave me an actual letter stating that it was a medical device and I couldn't be separated from it. When I went on a business trip six months later, I brought that letter and put a dilator in my carry-on (but made sure it was one I could "afford" to lose, one of the smaller ones I was about to discontinue anyway).

It was kind of anticlimactic. Nobody in the TSA noticed/said anything either way.

[Jaelithe]

As someone with GRS still far on the horizon, what is Suporn charging these days? Getting doctors to quote prices seems to be like pulling teeth.

[Adabelle]

Email the clinic, they quote the prices in their first response to you.

[Jaelithe]

Wow, that's a refreshing change from the US doctors I've contacted. They always came back with something along the lines of "drive halfway across the country, put down $200 and THEN we'll give you a price"

[Adabelle]

Yeah, they are good about giving you all the prices and what to expect up front. Just ask them for info about the surgery and they email you a whole packet describing everything. I don't know what his current prices are and it also is affected by the exchange rate. I'm fortunate my insurance paid for it.

[LauraGirl]

I've currently paid 535,000 Thai Baht. Don't know the prices for next year.

Anyway, e-mail the clinic you'll get very detailed reply. I am very happy with the communication with Sophie, dr suporn 's secretary.

[Layn]

a friend has been wondering how to best handle the flight back to florida. How would you handle it? It's a pretty long and exhausting flight. She's been thinking of staying overnight in LA before flying to their final destination, but even that's already a pretty long flight