T before top surgery

[kings joker]

I know T has an effect on breast tissue becoming less firm and sometimes just less but does that effect top surgery outcome at all? Flip side, does taking T actually HELP the outcome of top surgery?

[Kylo]

I never heard it affected the outcome of the surgery in general from any doctors. Heard they want you to stop a few weeks before surgery though for some reason, and then resume it after.

[FTMax]

Does not affect it either way. I was on T before top surgery and my results were fine. I know guys who had top surgery done before T and their results are fine.

The one thing you could make a point to do that would make an immediate different in your results would be to work out your chest. And then you'd automatically have pecs post top-surgery instead of being flat as a board like most of us end up.

I also don't think T affects breast tissue in that way. I think you are confusing it with binding, which most surgeons also don't care about. They expect it and can work with the tissue however it is presented.

[ghoulified g]

There's the fat redistribution thing as well, if you leave it long enough/work out enough then your chest might get smaller because of fat going away/to different places. In some cases people don't even need to bind because of it, but they'd have been pretty small pre-T anyway

But yeah, it doesn't affect the breast tissue, just the fat, if I remember correctly

Edit: Forgot to mention, it could possibly be the difference between getting peri and double incision for some people.