Hi,

I live in Brazil and I never been on airplane before. I'll have SRS on Feb 6th, but since the trip takes aprox. 36h i'll take the airplane in 2 days, and I´ll get there one day before SRS.  I created this topic to ask for any tips, because I am so scared that something goes wrong, since i don't have any experience ( I actually never left the state i live in, let alone travel to another continent). And I´m gonna go alone, witch makes me even more frightened. Most of my friends in Brazil that had srs did it in our own country.
Sorry if my questions sound stupid or noob, but I would like to know how many cothing items are necessary considering that I´ll be in thailand for one month? I´m bringing some dresses, skirts, and loose tops (aprox 15 items), underwear, higiene products, a pair of shoes and a pair os slippers. And in my handbag I´ll have my laptop, tablet, cellphone, money, wallet, tickets. Is that enough?
I was told that near the hospital there is a 7eleven where I could buy food and other items like soap washing powder.
Another thing that makes me worried is the possibility to get lost in the airport and lose the plane.
Anyway any tips would be helpful
Thanks a lot.

Hope your passport is in order.

In general the biggest issues going to and from are with airport security so planning ahead and having extra time for that help with stress levels. The rule of thumb is 2 hours from departure time because the time is from when the plane leaves the ground and not when it leaves the gate (give 30 min for boarding and taxiing). Having mail service held and things watched over (if your neighbours are nice enough) will reduce the back at home stress while away. For that matter a little cleanup now will go a long way when you might not have enough energy to clean or make complex meals after returning.

Most airports are sectioned off by terminal and will have screens with flight status and gate information. Each airline typically uses a certain terminal or number of gates so once you've found one gate for your airline, the others won't be far off unless international flights are in a separate part of the airport.

I can't vouch for the recommended things to bring to thailand but it sounds like you have a good set there (food, water and some toiletries should be bought there to save from bringing it through security and because after srs you really don't want to be lifting anything heavy). Jut make sure you have enough clothing to last the days when you're recovering in the hotel.

When in the plane it's mostly a matter of working a little sleep and getting up once every couple hours or so. This depends on when the projected arrival time is (in local time) so that sleep schedule doesn't get more messed up than it'll be.

As far as getting a ride from the airport, I would suggest printing the address of the hotel in advance to avoid any language barriers. Make sure you use only a licensed taxi otherwise they might try to take you for a ride. If the surgeon's staff schedules transportation all the better (again, I don't know the surgeon you've selected).

And most of all
Don't panic D:

Hello

Thanks so much for your answer, I had srs yesterday and I'm doing fine ^^

Kisses

Congratulations!!!

Thanks!

Yay!! another Brazilian girl here how are things going?
it'd be great if you could give a more in depth of your experience with Kamol, I've only seen one girl posting about him here. It'd definitely be great because it would give us some more really useful information on him.
hope you're healing well,
beijo

Another YAY!! Glad you made it safe (I only read this thread today).

You say there are SRS surgeons in Brazil? I'd always wondered that, there seems to be a large population of LGBT there (at least, in my mind LOL). What are the surgeons like there? (You said "most of my friends had SRS in my country")

Again, congrats on making the trip and completing the surgery!!

Hello girls I am doing fine, already dilating, 5 inches, having a great recovery, almost no pain right now.

Hi Gabi, do you live in Brazil currently? Witch state? I live in Paraná

Beth, when it comes about the surgeons in Brazil, as you may know, public health care system pays for srs surgery, but there is a long waiting list. This surgery can only be done in the teaching hospitals, and only four of them perform this surgery, one in São Paulo, another in Rio de Janeiro, one in the capital and one in the south (Rio grande do Sul). I never met patiens that did it with them, but I read in the newspaper about a girl that is opened a law suit against the institution in São Paulo because of the complications, that were not resolved even with multiple corrective surgeries. However some other girls that known a few patients operated via public health care says that they are doing fine. The results are not showed, it´s very dificult to obtain acess to informations about techiniques etc. Some other teaching hospitals (besides those four that i mentioned) performed surgeries for a short period of time, as a trial/test with different results. The problem is that SRS was legally allowed here in 1998, and the surgeons in teaching hospitals didn't learn with experienced doctors abrad, they did it with their own knowlage.
In the other side we have the doctors that perform srs, but charging for it. One of them used to be really good, he learned his techinique in Spain, had great results, but he is very old now, and after a high number of lawsuits for badpractice, the brazillian authorities prohibited him to do srs (jalma Jurado is his name). There is another one in Rio( Marcio Litlleton) that learned in Portugal his techinique with Doctor Decio, but only performed a few surgeries so its difficult to say if he is good or bad, however the girls that i know he operated are pleased with the results. There is another one, in Sao Paulo (Carlos Abib Cury), not recomended, and some other two or three surgeons that are less known.

Olá brasilliangirl, tudo bem?  I'm very happy for you and hope you heal well and fast. I'm from Rio de janeiro but actually I live in Austria  and I thank God 100 for that, my life in Brasil was not bad I'm very passable and have a unisex name so I could work and study without problems,  for 6 yeas I was in a public clinic  in Rio ( Moncorvo filho ) for hormonal and psiquiatric treatment, the waiting list there was also very long and the price of medicaments were very hi ( streva gel and androcur ), well here in Austria those medicaments cost € 5, 50 I was surprised how cheap they are here, and transgenders here can have many help for free like breast augmentation  ( I did it last month ), in 2 months I'll go for SRS  with a local doctor but with a very good reputation, I would like to ask you which kind of technic does Kamol performs?  when you have any question feel free to ask.

Hi Brasileira. Moving out of Brazil was the best decision that you could make, I think about move to another country someday... not happy with what the government has done to the economy, the criminality and the corruption. It is really bad. What you said about the hormones is truth, but what could we expect with all the taxes we pay...
Well, about Dr Kamol, he has different techiniques, the one I used as penile inversion with scrotal skin graft. Happy to know you are about to have srs, hope everything goes well

Hi braziliangirl89
I do I live in Rio ^^
I actually considered Littleton but apparently he's asking for 41 thousand reais, which, to me, with the amount of surgeries he has done and the experience he has, is just a really good joke. He also doesn't show results of his surgeries on his website and there's very little info on him.  So I'll most likely be heading to Thailand as well.
Did your flight go through Japan? All the flights I saw to Thailand were through Japan... did you have to get a Japan visa?
how was your time with Kamol? how was his aftercare?
Take care ^^

congrats on completing your surgery! 

congrats with your surgery brazilliangirl89, i am actually considering going to Dr Kamol and i wonder how the after care was and if you dont mind could you also so how much you paid?

Hello Gabi. I used a company called ethiopian. My flight didn't go trough Japan. It was: Brasil - Lome - Addis Ababa - Bangkok. Some people said I shoudn't use this company because those countries in Africa might be intollerant, but I had my name and sex legally changed, so i didn't think it would be a problemn, and in fact everything was ok. The main reason I chose Ethiopian was the price, and because in febuary tikets get more expansive. I advise you to buy your tikets way before your trip, so you'll pay less, i should have done that. I had a friend that chose Emirates and was satisfied, airfrance seem like a good option as well  No matter what company you choose, be aware of the necessity of vaccination against yellow fever - you have to go to anvisa to get the international certificate.
When I came to the airport, the clinics driver was waiting for me, with my name wrote in a paper (they send me an e-mail saying where he would be). The hospital accomodations are really good (they have a channel on youtube, take a look), and the nurses were amazing, all the staff actually. Their english is good, i didn't had problemns to understand them.  After 5 days in the hospital, I was moved to the 7th floor, witch is like an hotel room, and i could call them if needed. I saw Dr kamol in the consultation before surgery, and some days later when he look at my surgery to make sure everything was ok. another great thing about here is that we have lots of grocery stores, pharmacies, mcdonalds, starbucks, a mini mall, in the same block as the hospital, so you can get your stuff like food without even having to cross the street.  In the hotel they have washing machines for laundry (buy soap powder when you get here), a microwave to heat food, in a mini kitchen. I don't have complains so far =)

Sh1982, as I said, I liked the aftercare, the nursing team is fantastic, but i think Dr kamol could be present more often (my opinion). My surgery was the equivalent a 8700 USD dolars. With the other expenses (consultations fee, hotel, hospital, food) you'll end spending like 12-13k.