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First steps towards SRS. Help needed.

Started by goingdown, November 05, 2008, 12:30:38 PM

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goingdown

I now know that I can get two gendertherapist recomendations for SRS. I am also searching from info from  surgeons. What I should do next? Generally how do I tentative apply for surgery? I have suffient funds easily available. ( A little bit help is needed because English is foreing language for me?
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Kate

Quote from: goingdown on November 05, 2008, 12:30:38 PM
Generally how do I tentative apply for surgery?

Contact the surgeon's office, and they'll tell you. Generally they'll ask for a deposit to reserve a surgery date, as well as requesting various bits of information from you (recommendation letters, medical history and tests, etc.).

Kate
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Kate

Quote from: Kiera on November 05, 2008, 01:21:38 PM
lol  Kate! Your fav movie is "Titanic"? ???

It's a beautiful love story, and in so many ways. She risks everything... gives up the life she's trapped in, what others expect of her... "just" to follow her heart, surrenduring to it and wherever it may lead her.

And she never, ever gives up.

Kate
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goingdown

They seem to need guinea pigs for public sector. My genderterapist was not happy with my idea to go private surgeon. However I must live with results so I want that a skilled and motivated surgeon does my SRS.
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vanna

Unless your local public srs surgeon is one of the very skilled names your always hear i would not even consider going anywhere else. Im sorry but i have heard of way too many sub standard op's done for there not to be any truth in it.

Its your life hunny not your therapists, you need an artist not a handyman.
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pennyjane

ditto, vanna.  it's your life and your body.  you have not only the right, but a solid obligation to find the best surgeon for yourself.  you can get information from any of them just by writing, calling or emailing their offices.

i settled on marci bowers, not just because she is one of the top surgeons in the world, a master of grs, but also because she is transsexual herself.  i've heard others say that shouldn't be a factor, for them it shouldn't.  but for me, i got a real sense of comfort from knowing that she had been through what i was getting into.  for others that may have meant nothing, for me it was substantial.  the better i felt about it, the more positive my prognosis for successful surgery.  there are different factors for each of us, whatever yours are are real and substantial.  being uncomfortable with your surgeon is not acceptable...for any surgery.

you are very fortunate that money isn't a factor, for most of us it is a substantial hurdle.  you can pick and choose and i think you should.
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goingdown

Of course the money is factor because I am not rich. My part of extra money that our family has will go mainly to SRS, flights, hotels, other treatment etc. However the money is suffient to choose the surgeon after I carefully consider all options. Because I am quit young it is extremely important that I get the best possible result. I might live decades with it. I do not want to regret poor surgeon when I am over 30 or over 40. (Now 26 years old.)
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