Another surgeon thread sorry :(

[Paige0000]

Hi I'm sorry I'm just trying to acquire as much infomation as I can for my SRS as It's such an important surgery and I want only the best results.

Anyway I've also begun research on Dr Chettawut and his method appears very similar to Suporns (Both use the non penile method). Does anyway one have any experience with him and if so are you pleased overall with your results and treatment at the clinic? How is he sensation, aesthetic and depth wise?

Also I'm confused as to why his only srs requirements are the referral letters? No mention of RLE or is this supposed to be a given?

[Katie]

I said it before and will say it again. If you go to any of the well known doctors that do this surgery often your likely to be happy. As far as methods............... sounds like a sales pitch to me. Having a cup of coffee during surgery can be considered a unique method. LOL

[Paige0000]

I said it before and will say it again. If you go to any of the well known doctors that do this surgery often your likely to be happy. As far as methods............... sounds like a sales pitch to me. Having a cup of coffee during surgery can be considered a unique method. LOL

Hehe true . Yeah I don't know why I'm fretting so much I guess Its because when I hear a horror story from a top surgeon I get all antsy fearing it could happen to me even though the majority of the time the surgeon's patients end up very happy and satisfied. I know Chettawut, Suporn, Mcginn, Bowers, Brassard, Meltzer and Saran all do top quality jobs and I know deep down I will probably be very satisfied with who ever I choose but those dam horror stories throw me off all the time (even though there's like a  90-99% chance I'll be fine) .

[Jessica Merriman]

Paige, you are going to be alright after SRS and beautiful for a long time. Stop worrying, otherwise, frown lines! 

[Katie]

Ya know I do have one example of a horror story when I was in Thailand. One of probably 30 gals I met when I was there that had the surgery there was ONE girl that did have complications. She ended up with pneumonia two days after surgery and was put in intensive care thereafter. She recovered and came back home to the states.

Now if you read that you might say that is a complication but...........conveniently did not tell you some other aspects of this gal. These aspects would certainly be left out by those that would preach danger but I shall share these with you.

This gal was not very healthy when she got the surgery. She was quite old and a chain smoker. She was not in any way shape or form a model of health. It did not surprise me in the least she got pneumonia.

So yes stories are easily crafted to tailor the desires of the person telling the story. Perhaps my favorite is the activists that report the trans people that are murdered. What they don't report is that a lot of them are prostitutes and last time I checked a lot of prostitutes are victims of violent crime quite often. Oh yes and prostitutes are also often addicted to drugs and hey thats also something that subjects one to a greater likelihood of violence.

Katie

[GendrKweer]

I visited both Dr Suporn and Dr Chett before my SRS a few years ago. Both are good men. Dr Suporn impressed me much more, however, so I went with him. At the time, Dr Chett was doing standard penile inversion (that's what he wanted for me), whereas Suporn was using the technique that he basically pioneered a decade ago or more (half thickness scrotal graft, secondary sensate/orgasmic area below the clitoris called I think the Chonburi organ, google it lol). Meaning, though Dr Chett is now (I hear) doing a very similar procedure, given the choice, I'd do it with Suporn simply because he invented that procedure, vs having done it only for a year or two at most.

[Katie]

Ok so what is this procedure that supporn uses that is any better than any other doctor? I guess my bs meter goes off when I hear about a doctor with a new procedure on digging a hole.

[GendrKweer]

Regarding Suporn's "new" procedure, it isn't new anymore; he's done about 5 a week for many years.... He "invented" it as far as I understood, wrote papers on it and published and lectured, etc. I think he came up with it in 2001 but I might be off. It involved a half thickness scrotal graft vagina, negating the need for any electrolysis at all, and guaranteeing a very deep vagina regardless of donor material ie penile length. For example, at an average of 6 inches, Dr Chett suggested with him I would get three or four inches of depth using his penile inversion. Using the scrotal material, I was able to get a full 7 inches of depth, one inch of which I lost due to frankly not needing such a "hole" as you put it, and so went a bit easy on myself on the dilation. But I have the photo of myself at 7 inches around somewhere... lol Anyway, The chonburi organ is the remainder of the glans that goes on the floor of the vulva between the ureter opening and the clitoris (which is done/positioned as normal), creating a second "orgasmic" area. Believe me, it works. His look is extremely realistic, almost "too" realistic I've heard for some, but I'm quite happy a year and a half out.

[Katie]

So does he have the new and improved vagina? Again when it comes to digging a hole I am not sure how many ways one can tout about when the end result is the same, a hole.

Im sorry perhaps I just am old enough to know that the saying the more things change the more they stay the same. The only thing that really would catch my attention was if a doctor was able to get one a uterus and ovaries somehow. Now that would be.........new and improved.

Katie

[GendrKweer]

I understand, Katie, there are fangirls out here, and I am a little guilty of that... I loved my Chonburi experience. Unequivocally, yes, at the time of  my procedure, pedicled penile inversion (the gold standard, used by most US/Canadian/UK surgeons, if not all, where the penile skin goes to make the vaginal canal without being entirely removed first) would have left me with a 4 inch vagina at best. This is what Dr Chett told me 2 years ago in person when I flew to thailand to visit some doctors personally before I got to wiring money to anyone. Next day, Dr Suporn showed me his technique/presentation, and said his unattached half thickness graft would get me 7 inches of depth guaranteed (assuming no complications such as graft rejection, which is a very very slight but real risk with non-pedicled procedures, where there is no original attached blood supply left in place). He warned me his dilation would be more painful and longer than others because of the treatment he gives the graft as well. It was that, but I managed. My point is that of all my research, Suporn was the only doc at the time doing this, and he had invented it. Now, I hear dr Chett is doing something similar. If so, I'm telling you, as nice a man as he seemed, he can't have been doing that for more than 2 years, when I interviewed him.

[Nicolette]

I was on HRT and Androcur for 19 years and was circumcised. The surgeon said that I was in the grey area whether there would be enough material to not need a skin graft. Nevertheless, I got 5.5" of depth with penile inversion, which is more than enough.

[Katie]

My issue with being a fan of a doctor is that you only get one shot at this. You don't get to try out each doctor. You only get one. With that said it is not possible to experience exactly what the end result is like for a doctor you do not use.

What we do have available is the fact that nearly all women that go to any popular doctor are happy with the results. Since nearly all are happy with the results of their chosen doctor it stands to reason that whatever doctor you choose you are likely to be happy with the results.

My only point of consideration is some doctors cost more than others.

[Vicky]

What we do have available is the fact that nearly all women that go to any popular doctor are happy with the results. Since nearly all are happy with the results of their chosen doctor it stands to reason that whatever doctor you choose you are likely to be happy with the results.

Absolutely!!  I have a (non) bumper sticker that reads "Ask Me About My SRS Surgeon" ready to put on my 3/4 ton pick-up truck!!

[calico]

I'm a post op Chett girl here and he used the new technique like Suporn has been using for a while on me, and I am super please and well my dr's stateside, both my gyno and PCP were both very impressed with the work. True he hasn't been doing this method as long at Suporn but he has been doing srs/grs for quite a long time. honestly like Katie and others have said if you have surgery done by any of the mainstream dr's than you will most likely turn out fine. but what makes you turn out great is when you go to a doctor of your own choosing which I highly recommend anyone do. read, email, ask about experiences in the end you only get one shot, and while  "there is only so many ways to dig a hole" you might as well be informed and happy with whom you chose to be the "hole digger" This is just my opinion.