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This probably is severe but I want to know if there are anyone here who had top surgery  and hysterectomy at the same time? I don't know if it's better to just get it all over with.

My husband did mastectomy and 1 month later hysterectomy.

Not really answer to your question.

Was he fully recovered from top surgery (in terms of pain) when he had hysterectomy Mrs Izzy?

In top surgery your arms are useless so you use your lower half to sit up. In a hysto your lower half is useless so you would use your arms. I think getting both done at the same time would have you pretty stuck without a fancy power lift chair.

I remember finding a YouTube video of a young FTM who went for top surgery and a hysterectomy on the same day.  From what I remember, his top surgery was performed by Dr. Garramone, but I do not know who had performed the hysterectomy.  I do not remember this man's name, but he refers to himself as "the Pope for FTMs" or something like that.  Anyway, in his video, he said the surgeries were done in a 2+ hour window and that both were successful.  He showed his chest, which does look very good.  The downside of having the 2 procedures on the same day was the amount of pain he encountered after the surgeries, which he said was extreme.  He admitted that this is something that he knew he shouldn't have done together, but he went with it anyway because he wanted to get them done and over with.  He admitted that he probably wouldn't choose to do this again, and he wouldn't recommend it because of the fact he was in so much pain afterwards, in his chest and abdominal area. He was pretty much stuck in bed and his movements were limited for a while due to soreness.  So, this is something you should really think about.  How is your tolerance for pain in such a large area of your body?? 

Thank you for such an informative post. I just wanted to know if there were any risk takers out there.  I was exactly thinking like him actually; just so I can get the whole thing over with but you're right it's rough thinking on my part. My tolerance to pain couldn't be worse so I am ok doing it one at a time even though I didn't want to.
I wish I could have my top surgery with Dr Garramonne (I had no idea he was that renowned as I just recently checked out his website) but traveling isn't an option for me since I am all on my own with this to begin with. I am stuck with whoever is close to my area.

Quote from: makipu on December 30, 2014, 11:02:30 AM
Thank you for such an informative post. I just wanted to know if there were any risk takers out there.  I was exactly thinking like him actually; just so I can get the whole thing over with but you're right it's rough thinking on my part. My tolerance to pain couldn't be worse so I am ok doing it one at a time even though I didn't want to.
I wish I could have my top surgery with Dr Garramonne (I had no idea he was that renowned as I just recently checked out his website) but traveling isn't an option for me since I am all on my own with this to begin with. I am stuck with whoever is close to my area.

You can stay at New Beginnings close to Dr. Garramonne so you won't need someone to go with you from home.

Quote from: makipu on December 30, 2014, 10:31:48 AM
Was he fully recovered from top surgery (in terms of pain) when he had hysterectomy Mrs Izzy?

Recover took longer but was well enough for the hydro.

Forgot to add he had the liposcopic type of the surgery so was not as tramatic.

He did way better through the whole process .

Was out of work total 3 months.

I asked the gynecologist who will be doing my hysto about this due to work constraints. He refused to perform the hysto too close to my top surgery because he said that with healing from two surgeries at the same time, I'd be placed at a much higher risk of infection. He said there had to be AT LEAST 6 weeks in-between the two, but preferably a number of months.

Where I am at (Belgium) it's actually procedure to do both at the same time... I haven't had it yet (hoping for the summer) but I haven't heard any guys complain about it being really bad pain or something. They mainly complain about having to stay in bed and then seated for so long.  I have noticed that the guys here seem to stay longer in the hospital then in the us? 3-5 days is the norm. 

I'm not 100% about the reasoning behind the double surgery but part of it seems to be only one narcose and that recovery seems to be okay so you don't have to do two operations with two recovery periods.

On two occasions I have had non-trans-related surgeries performed on multiple parts of my body simultaneously.  On both occasions I declared afterward, "Never again!" It wasn't a problem of double the amount of pain.  The problem for me was what Alexthecat said.  After a major surgery, the targeted section of the body is near useless for a while.  You can compensate with the rest of the body for the essential activities of daily living – unless, of course, another body part has also just undergone surgery.  To the extent that the decision is up to me, I would always choose surgery on only one thing at a time.