Showed up only for them to say on their computer I was put down as “patient canceled” even tho I knew I didn’t.

My partner got the day off from work (which is gonna be financially hard but we were gonna be ok), I had multiple appointments set up for helping me post surgery, I told so many people this date was coming, you name it. The office had at Least all day today to call and let me know not to waste my partner’s gas to get there and learn there was a “schedule mix up” and they knew since friday. My surgeon acted very casually about this which upset me more.

I now have to wait for insurance pre authorization (potentially a week) to move surgery locations to a much busier place and she said the Possible soonest I can get in, is September 18.

I know it’s a simple reschedule on the surface but mentally I was so prepared and ready. I hate how much I’m crying.

Im off to finally go eat and probably drink my sadness away lol. Just needed to vent

atualização 35 dias pós cirurgia.

im almost a year post op and my scars seem so fucking huge. i spiral about it every couple of weeks and now is one of the times for it. they left fat tissue. the scars got so stretched. my nipples look different. i had such high expectations, it was my dream for YEARS genuinely fucking years. i feel fucking awful rn. i look like i have half boobs when i slouch. the scars dip on the sides too. they used to look so nice when they were still healing.

Got my nipple covers off today, drains will be removed next week!

I've had a couple people message and comment on my post back from 2023 asking about Miss Chloe Wright and Mr Ian Whitehead. So I thought I'd do an update post with my results and my feelings. I absolutely LOVE my results.

It's enabled me to go to the gym and get fitter, build muscle and generally love my body more without nagging dysphoria. I love being able to get dressed without a binder first. The scars going under my arms has left me with very minimal dog ears after losing about 20kgs in my several years post op.

All these years later I have such a positive outlook on my experience with them. My surgery was drain-less. I didn't anchor my nipples and I basically just let them to whatever they thought was best for me aesthetically. Absolutely zero complaints about their side of it. I did think top surgery was very mentally demanding. I got incredibly depressed from not being able to do anything for several weeks. But it's a small price to pay.

So basically I’m 17 and I’m non binary, but I haven’t really told anyone because honestly, I don’t really care if other people know it’s just for me to know. I’ve thought about getting top Surgery since seventh grade and just recently told my mom that I might get surgery and just made up a lie saying because there’s no point in them and they’re annoying.😭

I brought it up with her again while we were in the car just about how I might get them cut off in a couple years and she was like “Alex if you cut your boobs off you will look deformed. It will not look natural!! Just get a reduction” i’m assuming because I obviously look like a girl, but I’d have no boobs, but I don’t know 😭😭 scared me idk what to do tbh

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Edit: i’m realizing a lot of this sounds hateful to other people, but I mainly meant I look like a girl in her eyes or to other people’s eyes. Also, I do not under any circumstance. Think anybody in this sub looks deformed at all!!! this is all a rant about my mom and how she makes me feel

Like omg guys, I love it more every month that passes and I can't wait to see this after a year, I'm so happy about my chest and it feels like I've always meant to have my lil flat chest 🫂

I am so happy with my results!!
I have not before now realised how much my chest has held me back before. I feel like not a new person, but I finally feel whole. I feel like me 110% and I can finally move freely without my body holding me back both mentally and physically. I never realised how badly my chest was affecting my mental health. I’m suddenly a lot more confident in everything. This is the best thing that has ever happened to me, and I wish this upon whoever wishes it❤️

My only question is the dent in my chest? It doesn’t bother me at all really.. I just wonder what it is? Could it be leftovers after the surgery or just muscles maybe? I have been working out lately

Im extremely happy with the results so far and it’s healing very well!

Idk why the scar on the left side is kinda wonky. It’s also longer than the right one?? Also are my nipples in different positions?? Will it change or stay like that 😭

I’m over a year post op and my nipples still haven’t filled in all the way with pigmentation. I’m very insecure about this. I want to be stealth but still can’t take my shirt off even though I’ve had surgery.

What can I do to fix this? I think that silicone tape helps slightly but I’m not totally sure. Will they eventually fill in? Or is tattooing the only solution?

1st pic is now, 2nd pic is 2 months post op.

The glue is still very attached on my left side so I didn't touch it. But it's so weird seeing my incisions out in the open. They still look so fragile, like I can't even touch them.

I'm anxious about showering even though part of my incisions (on the extreme sides) has been without glue for days now and I've been showering just fine 🙃

I'm also a bit confused if this has already started the scarring process. I didn't see it progressing because of the glue. My head is having a hard time computing it. But I'm assuming yes.

How does it look for you guys?

Hi everyone, I had top surgery 2 years ago so this is just a storytime! My top surgery was on April 8th, 2024, the day of a solar eclipse..

It just so happened that the solar eclipse occurred after I woke up. I had warned my doctors that I get SEVERE nausea from anesthesia (after my reduction years prior, I was vomiting bile all day and night) and was assured that I’d be given something for it when I woke up. I made extra sure, and my team was very kind and said they’d be there and would definitely assist with the nausea.

When I woke up, almost every doctor and nurse was gone. They all went outside to watch the solar eclipse. Genuinely, the hospital seemed abandoned! The one guy who was there wasn’t from the morning team and he didn’t take my nausea seriously. Told me everyone experiences nausea, even when I told him I was promised nausea meds earlier. I was almost happy to collapse on the way to the bathroom (by myself) so I could prove to him that I was not well. Soon I was prescribed something to pick up at the pharmacy hours later, but nothing in the moment.

When I was wheeled out of the hospital, the nurse was wheeling me very fast so she could get outside to watch. (I didn’t have to guess that, it’s what she told the other nurses in front of me..) Once we got outside, there was the sea of staff with their eclipse glasses on.

Well, it sucked that the eclipse was top priority that day. But it was still one of the best days of my life! I’d book my surgery on an eclipse again if I had to!

But if you can help it, maybe see if you can reschedule xD

Just so excited. I was scheduled for 9/15, my sister had to get special permission for the time off work to look aftwr me, all that. And the surgeon called today and asked if I could do 9/8!!

Talked to my sister, she talked to her boss, talked to my boss... and it's happening! 7 days!

A bit stressed, as I only have 3 more work days to prep the time off, but everything else is ready to go and I am just!!! So ecstatic!!!

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p1:now

I've been losing muscle. Worsened my dysphoria a little bit. How did you all start training again? Are there any posts I can refer to?

I am about to get top surgery soon. I am very excited, but I read that the bilateral breast reduction down to the 0 skin flaps with a free nipple graft would cause total numbness there. I am not concerned with it as an eroganous organ, but it freaks me out to think a body part of mine is just numb. I like to know that my nipples haven't run away in my sleep. Is it true that I would just feel nothing there? Are there other surgeries that would be better to ensure my chest looks like an average dude chest while still allowing me to say I do indeed have nipples?

Feel like I’m healing kinda slow but man.. I’ve waited so long for this

Still can’t get a t-shirt on or do much. I plan on making a detailed post about my experience because there was SO much that I was not expecting. This is a tough surgery, go easy on yourself.

i had my bandages changed with my surgeon 2 days ago and it did NOT look like this at all. they told me to change it once a day but i couldn’t yesterday as i was traveling so this is my first time changing it myself… also sorry this is kinda gross

(El pezón tapado está bien, me lo tapé porque me iba a duchar solamente). Me operé hace 6 semanas, y aunque estoy muy contento con mis resultados y con la velocidad de recuperación, no puedo evitar notar que mis cicatrices están asimétricas. ¿Qué opináis?

hey yall !

insurance is covering all of my top surgery and i just need to get like scheduling costs and whatever stuff left like 2k. link here top surgery .

i’m 41 and ive wanted no boobs since i was in my early 20s. been binding for that long so as one could image my upper back sucks.

anyways, im feeling really emotional, sad, scared .. i dont want my boobs but thinking about them not being there feels like a betrayal almost of my body idk like saying it’s not good enough. but i also want to respect myself and have the body i desire. i was just wondering if people could share their experiences with this surrounding wanting top surgery and following thru but also experiencing grief about it

After waiting for a year I've finally got the news that I'm getting my surgery done on the 27th of November. I'm beyond excited, it's all I've been able to think about but I have my concerns about sleeping while recovering.

I have chronic insomnia, so generally speaking I get very little sleep on a day to day basis maybe four hours or so. On top of that my body hates me, and despite it being uncomfortable I physically can't fall asleep unless I'm flat on my stomach with my arms up and around my pillow. That's very obviously not something I'll be able to do during recovery but i genuinely dont think I'll sleep any other way. Do you have any advice? Meds I can take (outside of melatonin). Will the clinic offer some?

(Doing it through the GRS if any GRS baddies are here)

Anyway, thank you for your time reading this!!

I was skimming topsurgery.net's Insurance Guide and found this note saying that Aetna and UHC consider nipple grafts cosmetic and tend to deny coverage for them. I haven't come across this information before and it's worrying my a little because I have UHC. I was planning on keeping my nipples and it would be a bummer to 86 them for insurance reasons lol.

Has anyone here actually had their nipple grafts denied by insurance?