A. Did you read the reviews before your surgery?

I was referred by my primary care physician to my surgeon right here in Boston. I looked at his reviews and had already heard about him in other threads here on the site.

B. Did you leave a review after your surgery?

I did leave a review on one of the sites, and I also submitted a Google review which is pending.

More should put up reviews online even anonymous. My friend going to Stiller here in Washington state. Hopefully she review it. She will probably use my username to do it


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A: I did extensive researching over the past several years before I settled with my preferred choice. I used resources such as here, Youtube, a few older sites which contained post op before and afters, and a few new ones. I even reached out to some girls online. This was a very important and difficult decision I had to make and only had one shot.

B: Yesh

I read reviews before surgery.

I did not make a review after surgery. I will make a review after April 2018. I have a revision April 4th. So far the surgeon and all her staff have been awesome.

There wasn't much in the way of information available when I was transitioning. For my nose and neck, my endo recommended a plastic surgeon who he knew and I never produced a review. For GCS, there was only about one choice and we shared what we knew in group therapy.

My voice was a little different story. I looked at two surgeons but I really wasn't happy with everything about them. One I was very nervous about the results. The other had good results but I wanted something a bit different. I joined this site when I discovered there was discussion about Dr Haben and I look at the other members results along with asking questions. After the surgery I started a thread and posted updates until I was far enough along that I didn't have anything to add. In addition, I have remained on the site and if somebody has questions, I do the best I can to provide answers.

Reviews are critical as long as they're fair and impartial. The surgery availability landscape is quickly changing due to the way insurance-networks impact the selection process, timing and the options available. At the moment, hospitals are looking at adding gender affirmation surgery teams quicker than these new surgeons can be trained in key procedures.

1. Read them and they were positive, however it wasn't a major factor in my decision, that was all about her experience and my specific preferences in a doc

2. Left a glowing review on healthgrades

Quote from: ForeverLacey on December 31, 2017, 01:26:32 PM
A: I did extensive researching over the past several years before I settled with my preferred choice. I used resources such as here, Youtube, a few older sites which contained post op before and afters, and a few new ones.

Do you have any of those links to the before and afters you could send me? (Not sure if the links would be allowed in the forum publicly.) I've been trying to find some, but haven't been able to for any but some Thai surgeons whose results are... iffy. Not that I'm anywhere remotely near GCS, but I've been trying to find some results that would ease my anxiety about it in the future.