Community Conversation => Transsexual talk => Post operative life => Topic started by: mrs izzy on August 07, 2014, 10:00:09 PM Return to Full Version
Title: Very important to have guaranteed Doctor or Gyn help in place when home.
Post by: mrs izzy on August 07, 2014, 10:00:09 PM
Post by: mrs izzy on August 07, 2014, 10:00:09 PM
Please make sure you talk to your GP or a GYN in person before you leave for your GCS.
If you need the help once you get home you do not want to have to run around and find a GP or GYN or the hospital for your care.
You want to be 100% sure you have there understanding that you will if you have troubles be coming into there office for post op care.
It is a vagina and holds all the same problems that can happen to a cis female vaginas.
It has stitches and can get infections and granulation. These are things that any Doctor should be able to handle.
What i am finding is that some who go back home get the run around with those who they wanted or was going to use.
So please before you head off to where ever you go please make sure you have the help that will stand by you and help you when you are back home.
I hope no one needs to use this back up but sometime in your life you will or could use there help.
Hugs
If you need the help once you get home you do not want to have to run around and find a GP or GYN or the hospital for your care.
You want to be 100% sure you have there understanding that you will if you have troubles be coming into there office for post op care.
It is a vagina and holds all the same problems that can happen to a cis female vaginas.
It has stitches and can get infections and granulation. These are things that any Doctor should be able to handle.
What i am finding is that some who go back home get the run around with those who they wanted or was going to use.
So please before you head off to where ever you go please make sure you have the help that will stand by you and help you when you are back home.
I hope no one needs to use this back up but sometime in your life you will or could use there help.
Hugs
Title: Re: Very important to have guaranteed Doctor or Gyn help in place when home.
Post by: Monkeymel on August 07, 2014, 10:27:34 PM
Post by: Monkeymel on August 07, 2014, 10:27:34 PM
Could not agree more. My endo is also a well respected gynocologist - and a transman and has a massive knowledge. He helped some trans friends who did have poor after care. I will be visiting him soon after I return home.
Title: Re: Very important to have guaranteed Doctor or Gyn help in place when home.
Post by: Northern Jane on August 08, 2014, 05:53:30 AM
Post by: Northern Jane on August 08, 2014, 05:53:30 AM
My HRT was started by a gynecologist and he was a great help in getting me to SRS - I was lucky!
A few days after SRS and being released from hospital I found a piece of tissue hanging from my vagina and returned to the SRS surgeon. He said it wasn't serious but needed to be tended to but he couldn't re-admit me to hospital because there would be additional costs so I flew home. My gynecologist was kind enough to come into the hospital on a Sunday and take care of the problem.
If I didn't have someone already familiar with my case, it would have been a very awkward situation.
A few days after SRS and being released from hospital I found a piece of tissue hanging from my vagina and returned to the SRS surgeon. He said it wasn't serious but needed to be tended to but he couldn't re-admit me to hospital because there would be additional costs so I flew home. My gynecologist was kind enough to come into the hospital on a Sunday and take care of the problem.
If I didn't have someone already familiar with my case, it would have been a very awkward situation.
Title: Re: Very important to have guaranteed Doctor or Gyn help in place when home.
Post by: mrs izzy on August 08, 2014, 10:53:19 AM
Post by: mrs izzy on August 08, 2014, 10:53:19 AM
Quote from: Samantha007 on August 08, 2014, 10:51:15 AM
How can he be an endocrinologist and gynecologist at the same time? They are two separate specialties. An endocrinologist is a specialist doctor that deals with hormones and their effect. A gynecologist, however, is a doctor that specialises in the health of the female reproductive systems (vagina, uterus and ovaries) and the breasts. In other words, women's health. You probably mean you gender specialist?
Samantha
Double courses of study to doctorate.
Very common when many of the same classes are crossed for the degree.
Title: Re: Very important to have guaranteed Doctor or Gyn help in place when home.
Post by: Wynternight on August 08, 2014, 02:27:18 PM
Post by: Wynternight on August 08, 2014, 02:27:18 PM
Quote from: Samantha007 on August 08, 2014, 10:51:15 AM
How can he be an endocrinologist and gynecologist at the same time? They are two separate specialties. An endocrinologist is a specialist doctor that deals with hormones and their effect. A gynecologist, however, is a doctor that specialises in the health of the female reproductive systems (vagina, uterus and ovaries) and the breasts. In other words, women's health. You probably mean you gender specialist?
Samantha
Doctors do go through other residency programmes if they wish to change their speciality or gain another. I know a doctor who started out in pain management/anesthesiology and later did a residency in Ob/Gyn.
Title: Re: Very important to have guaranteed Doctor or Gyn help in place when home.
Post by: Monkeymel on August 08, 2014, 10:26:05 PM
Post by: Monkeymel on August 08, 2014, 10:26:05 PM
Women's health is very heavily linked to their endochrine system so it makes a lot of sense to be a specialist in both areas. Especially if you have personal interest in your own endochrine system because of T administration.
Title: Re: Very important to have guaranteed Doctor or Gyn help in place when home.
Post by: kelly_aus on August 08, 2014, 10:34:48 PM
Post by: kelly_aus on August 08, 2014, 10:34:48 PM
Quote from: Samantha007 on August 08, 2014, 10:51:15 AM
How can he be an endocrinologist and gynecologist at the same time? They are two separate specialties. An endocrinologist is a specialist doctor that deals with hormones and their effect. A gynecologist, however, is a doctor that specialises in the health of the female reproductive systems (vagina, uterus and ovaries) and the breasts. In other words, women's health. You probably mean you gender specialist?
Samantha
It's not hard.. You just do the required study and placements for the different specialities.. I've known surgeons who were also anaesthetists.. I even know a gyno who was also a dermatologist.
Title: Re: Very important to have guaranteed Doctor or Gyn help in place when home.
Post by: Vicky on August 09, 2014, 12:24:24 PM
Post by: Vicky on August 09, 2014, 12:24:24 PM
My entire recovery from GCS was the work of a team which included doctors in my HMO and my Surgeon. In addition to what Izzy said in the OP, be sure all of these people can exchange information on all of your medical records with each other. I gave my surgeon and my HMO permission to go two years in both directions on my records, including my mental health records, since that is where my surgery letters came from. When I had a yeast infection three weeks after surgery, my HMO called my surgeon's office and a revised post op medication routine was quickly in place that cleared things up fast, and did not interfere with my healing and dilation schedule.