i've been on t for 7 months now so the excitement is dying down and i'm ready for surgery. currently waiting to schedule it..... which will take 2-3 months. i'm nervous as hell, but i know that i need and want this. so much of my anxiety derives from my chest/worrying if my binder is okay today.

Quote from: palexander on June 03, 2015, 07:07:42 PM
i've been on t for 7 months now so the excitement is dying down and i'm ready for surgery. currently waiting to schedule it..... which will take 2-3 months. i'm nervous as hell, but i know that i need and want this. so much of my anxiety derives from my chest/worrying if my binder is okay today.

I'm in a similar boat right now, so I totally get that feeling. Someone from my healthcare provider's surgery board was supposed to get back to me two weeks from my referral. It's been two weeks as of today. If I don't get a call by Friday, I'm storming down there with an army. /endsarcasm

For me, the major results of T, such as facial hair, started really quickly so a lot of the first few months' enthusiasm has died down into a simple "huh, that's new" every few weeks/months. I'm SO ready to be able to strut around shamelessly shirtless all summer, plus binders really suck to work out in. So I'm definitely voting that surgery is more exciting, long-term.

Quote from: AndrewB on June 03, 2015, 07:16:32 PM
I'm in a similar boat right now, so I totally get that feeling. Someone from my healthcare provider's surgery board was supposed to get back to me two weeks from my referral. It's been two weeks as of today. If I don't get a call by Friday, I'm storming down there with an army. /endsarcasm

For me, the major results of T, such as facial hair, started really quickly so a lot of the first few months' enthusiasm has died down into a simple "huh, that's new" every few weeks/months. I'm SO ready to be able to strut around shamelessly shirtless all summer, plus binders really suck to work out in. So I'm definitely voting that surgery is more exciting, long-term.

+1

i think that when you're pre-t, you're infatuated with the idea of having a deeper voice or facial hair because you never had it. once the changes start to roll in (voice, facial hair, fat redistribution, muscle mass change) there's only one (or two, for some) thing left and that's top surgery.

pre-t = you want t more to sound and look the way that you've always seen yourself
on t = you want the surgery to complete yourself

Well I had to pick your third option because I'm not one of the cool kids yet. 

But I wanted to bump the thread for more input and thank those who have answered already because it confirms my own decision to go with top surgery first. I'm a few months out but soon...

Quote from: Bimmer Guy on May 13, 2015, 04:33:27 PM
It will be interesting to see if you still feel that way after you are on T and are scheduled for/have already had top surgery.  That is why I decided to only poll people that are on T and have already had top surgery....you might be surprised.

Yeah, it's a good question. I've got a meeting scheduled in roughly 2-3 months, so hopefully if lucky, I'll have my surgery in November/December this year. If not so lucky, somewhere Spring next year. T was really important though, but since I haven't had any major physical changes in almost a year exactly as of this writing moment, it's a little meh to me. I wish it would help more than it does.