Quote from: Carolina1983 on February 16, 2013, 11:42:40 AM
Believe me I am damaged beyond repair 
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My face may look ok head on. But not when you look at the profile. It just wont get any better than this. Sadly enough because I would have loved to not throw all my money on surgery.
My wife is honest, and we have talked a lot about this. She also see the same problem as I do with these areas, especially my nose in profile view, it is manly and not flattering at all.
Also I want to wake up in the morning without any makeup on an still see a girl in the mirror. that would not be possible without FFS.
Many have told me that they are pretty amazed over how different I look when I do my makeup. Especially my friends at work that sees me as male every day. As one girl said "you look like a totally different person in the photos, I first thought that it was your girlfriend".
I wont do anything drastic, I just want to take away what T gave me. As I told the surgeon I want to keep my face, I just want it to reflect somewhat how I would have looked if T had not been loose in my body for all those years.
I understand how you feel and can relate for the most part.
Its always different what we see in the mirror and what other people see, believe me I get rather disappointed when looking in the mirror too sometimes.
Waiting a little while to see what HRT changes is a good idea, how long is hard to say because it is different for everyone.
For me the most drastic changes have been in the last few months, I'm 14 months in now so I would say the last 6 months have been the most noticeable.
The other idea may be to get the bone work done now or at least some of it because that won't change via HRT, things like nose and brow if that's a concern for you. (Although your brow looks fine to me)
Things that are soft tissue will change, how much - again dependent on the individual. This includes things like lips and the subcutaneous fat which comes and moves with HRT, this helps massive with the chin and jaw. I had a horrible bum chin as a boy, it caused me so much grief, it was to be the first thing I wanted done surgically, but its so much better now just through HRT I really don't mind it. (subcutaneous fat really helped)
I had a few things done at 12 months, the only actual reconstructive surgery was my nose the other 2 were soft tissue only via injections.
I had a list longer than yours believe me
which I brought to my surgeon, and he culled it down to 3 things and told me to wait, he also said its best to get the least amount of actual reconstructive surgery as possible because of how invasive it is.
You mentioned your jaw bone, I had originally asked for jaw bone shaving but my surgeon recommended botox injections in the masseter muscle instead which reduced the width of the my jaw and smoothed it out considerably, its much less invasive and only needs to be done every 10 months or so.
Anyway I hope that helps some, there are always options and time you have too
Sorry wasn't mean to be an essay
Jay-Bird
