I found a doctor who is going to do an orchiectomy for me! Best part is he is doing it based on my recurring testicular pain and so can make my insurance cover it. I've had on again, off again, testicular pains for some years. It spiked bad last year and I saw another urologist with whom I discussed the orchiectomy. That doctor was all for doing it but she said pain wasn't enough of a reason. She would have done it as self pay but I didn't have the cash available. She gave me a older tricyclic antidepressant (amitriptyline) for the pains. It helped make them not so crippling but did not make them go away.
Fortunately today I had my history with me. CD's with sonograms done last year and several years before showing nothing wrong to cause the pains. With that this doctor was willing to do the orchi. His medical reasoning, multiple years of bilateral phantom pains, sonograms with no cause found, previous medication unable to remove pains.
This way there is no gender dysphoria or transgender billing codes involved. He left the exam room to discuss with his office manager about precertification. I was just starting to believe this was actually going to happen when the nurse came in and told me unless something happens that it is scheduled for next week Thursday. I started to cry. The nurse and I talked for like another 20 minutes.
I am still not sure this is really going to happen. So looking forward to being done with those things.
