What did your surgery do for you?

How do you feel now opposed to before?

How did it change your life?

Thanks.

Quote from: Tink on January 27, 2009, 09:07:10 PM
To me, correcting my body to fit my gender was the ultimate solution to all my troubles (i.e, severe depression, suicidal thoughts, chronic insomnia, etc)  Now, don't take me wrong, I still have my ups and downs like everyone else, but at least now, I am living MY life, a life that finally makes sense, and that makes all the difference in the world.


tink

The feeling of completion you get after SRS is something that sometimes you can't explain with words, and only a person who has been through it will understand, and this is exactly why there is this very special bond among post-op women of transsexual histories.

Just imagine being locked up in a coffin where you just "exist", where you can't hardly breath or move until and one day you are set free and allowed to experience YOUR OWN life, a life that you thought you could never have.  It is one of the most wonderful things that can happen to any human being.

tink

Hum....sort of what Tink said. If I put it in my own words the background noise went away.  the harmonic discord has stopped and I'm just me.

Beni

it gave me a life!

i rediscovered many things-

shirts that fit
running for the bus
swimming (although i had to learn how to float on my back w/o the extra buoyancy!)
sleeping on my stomach
getting naked during sex
self-esteem
mirrors, cameras, videotape

Tink hit it pretty close to my experience. I often say that SRS/transition was my release from the death camp of Auschwitz - I steeped out of deprivation, darkness, and misery into sunlight, freedom, and warmth. After 35 years I still haven't found a better analogy.

For me it really was the final hard-earned completion of a difficult and painful journey I never asked for and the beginning of the one I should have been on in the first place... as the real and whole me.  I no longer had this overwhelming issue to deal with any more and just started being able to focus on living my life and enjoying myself.

Don't get me wrong though, the first part, the difficult part, made me a much stronger, more resilient, understanding, caring, and accepting person than I ever was before.  I'm really happy to be able to bring those qualities with me with me out of the fog of the old path and into the sunlight of the new one.   

Quote from: Tink on January 31, 2009, 06:54:59 PM
this is exactly why there is this very special bond among post-op women of transsexual histories.


tink

Just FYI there is a new term floating around for post-op SRS/vaginoplasty women (to avoid all the "trans" this and "trans" that stuff), considering that once we correct our bodies to match our gender, there is nothing "trans" about us anymore! 

-- Women of operative history --




tink

Quote from: Tink on February 03, 2009, 07:26:47 PM

Quote from: Tink on January 31, 2009, 06:54:59 PM
this is exactly why there is this very special bond among post-op women of transsexual histories.
tink

Just FYI there is a new term floating around for post-op SRS/vaginoplasty women (to avoid all the "trans" this and "trans" that stuff), considering that once we correct our bodies to match our gender, there is nothing "trans" about us anymore! 

-- Women of operative history --




tink

True... but i still prefer to be simply referred to as "Woman" Damn I changed the topic.  Sorry Nero... I now return you to your regular programing

steph

I felt complete as soon as I woke up. I asked my wife is it done and she said yes and I kind of felt down there and there was nothing down there and that was when I felt complete. I fell back to sleep. Now, 5 yrs later, I still fill complete and very natural. As far as life goes, I think it is basically the same. I'm older now and retired and have another job but the world is not in turmoil anymore. I just feel full filled. I only wished I was younger to go out and concentrate on my life. I'm happy with what I have. This was a wish come true.

My surgery freed me to be me, to be the person i was supposed to be. As my quote says - "I'm not who I once was, in fact I never was"

Steph

Now this is a positive thread! A feel good one too! Those of you who have gone all the way, my admiration flies high for you all!

hi... To be free  to have been able  with help, to escape .  over the fence from the asiylum knowing youll never . never ..ever.. go back ........ & to fly high like a butterfly
  Tink . your coffin was like my cocoon.
   the changes for me have been the best in my life . just so neat .   
       <<<   ((((   YES   ))))   >>>

       ...noeleena...

Quote from: steph on February 03, 2009, 09:11:30 PM

Quote from: Tink on February 03, 2009, 07:26:47 PM

Quote from: Tink on January 31, 2009, 06:54:59 PM
this is exactly why there is this very special bond among post-op women of transsexual histories.
tink

Just FYI there is a new term floating around for post-op SRS/vaginoplasty women (to avoid all the "trans" this and "trans" that stuff), considering that once we correct our bodies to match our gender, there is nothing "trans" about us anymore! 

-- Women of operative history --




tink

True... but i still prefer to be simply referred to as "Woman" Damn I changed the topic.  Sorry Nero... I now return you to your regular programing

steph

Absolutely and so do I, but what I have found out is that the term woman of operative history is predominantly being used  "in the community" (to indicate that you have had SRS) instead of the usual "I am a post-op transsexual" or "I am a post-operative male to female transsexual woman"

Off topic again, but oh well.  You can sue me now! 


tink

1. I can swim!
2. I don't have to worry about someone feeling my chest and accidentally discovering the twins...ugh.
3. I can wear tight shirts.
4. I can walk around with a towel wrapped around my waist.
5. I can look in a mirror with my shirt off and feel completely like a guy.
6. Shirtless! Summer! Beach! Yay!
7. The hair on my chest finally looks right. (Hairy boobs = ugh.)
8. I can stand up straight and stick my chest out.
9. I don't have to worry about itchy, sweaty binders.
10. I finally was able to quit worrying about the whole trans thing. I mean, I kind of forgot I was trans. I'm aware of it, but it's in the back of my mind.

It put me into debt, but I have paid it all back now.

I finally own my face and boobs.

Buffy

Quote from: Nero on January 31, 2009, 05:16:45 PM
What did your surgery do for you?

How do you feel now opposed to before?

How did it change your life?

Thanks.

I was pre op for 12years and lived in stealth before srs, I was content living as a woman, but my Mother kept on telling me my transition would never be complete till I had the final surgery srs, so when I was 28 in 1985 I finally had srs, I remember coming out of the anesthetic tired and weak after the surgery asking my Dad, am I done, it only felt I was out for a few minutes which was a few hours, all he said was ''Daddy princess girl is now complete'' gosh it was all over, I felt the pain and packing down there.
But before there was always a chance of being discovered, after the surgery there was no question of my femininity, I was more relaxed dating guys, the surgery was painful, but the happeness just being a complete woman is beautiful, few months after the surgery I'd wake up in the morning from bad dreams from the past, its very sureal, put my hand down, its not there anymore, instead a real vagina, I'd pinch myself make sure this wasn't a dream, but real, no p----, but a pussy lol long and painful journey, but Im finally me my life was changed forever, for the better, my Mother was overjoyed, I finally was her daughter. After all my surgery, Im now a complete woman, Im female, Im a girl, Im a lady, Im me!
p

When I woke up after my SRS, I could hear the hiss of the oxygen, I was dry mouthed, my body ached and my head was throbbing.

Then I felt the packing inside me.

Somewhere deep in my brain a switch finally flipped from Male to Female.

I smiled broadly and cried happily.

-Sandy

Quote from: Tink on January 31, 2009, 06:54:59 PMThe feeling of completion you get after SRS is something that sometimes you can't explain with words, and only a person who has been through it will understand, and this is exactly why there is this very special bond among post-op women of transsexual histories.

Just imagine being locked up in a coffin where you just "exist", where you can't hardly breath or move until and one day you are set free and allowed to experience YOUR OWN life, a life that you thought you could never have.  It is one of the most wonderful things that can happen to any human being.

YES!!!  I know that may sound elitist to some, but it is sooooooooo true!