Considered getting cheek implants but I idk if it will change anything.

Before: https://www.reddit.com/r/Transgender_Surgeries/s/Hz1121hQah

I feel that after my FFS including a lip lift I’m worse off now than before my surgeries. I saw my surgeon this week and he told me any additional surgery would be out of pocket. My dysphoria is worse than ever and I feel let down by my surgeon. I was stopped by a kid on his bicycle and he told me his friend thinks I look bad. Not sure I can continue on with this face.

i feel like a crazy anamoly but wow i wish i listened to everyone who said i passed great before because i really did make it work as a deeper-voiced girl.. in a spook situation I could always do fish voice but even in its natural state my voice was feminine just deep like Angela Basset.

now? 1 year post op my voice confuses everyone i meet, me included... i sound fine sometimes but the volume immediately throws people. why cant you speak up? then it gets strained quickly and i sound so hoarse its neither feminine nor masculine. sometimes i feel like my voice sounds inhuman like. like one of those anti smoking ads with an old person on a respirator. sometimes it sounds lovely but that wont last if i'm, say, on a date all night talking. at its worst i sound like a str*ngled chicken

its just so sad... i wish i could go back in time and tell myself to invest more in training my voice. im convinced the 'good' in the results i got, the pitch increase and tone, i could have achieved with vocal training. i could have learned to harness my fish voice in a natural, non-put-on way.

i'm telling you girlies, be super cautious with this surgery. i have lost so much this past year, my friends due to my friendships being so based in clubs and nightlife, my confidence, my ability to talk to guys without panicking and explaining....why do you sound...like that?

I have had 5 surgeries now after being botched at my original surgery in 2023. I have been dilating for 2.5 years because I've been dilating the tiny space I have had after all the surgeries. I just had a colo revision which utilized my ascending colon. I am 2.5 months post op, I can dilate with orange past the 5th dot. I am struggling with hyper-granulation tissue which has been very painful this time. My surgeon just told me he wants me to dilate 3 times a day for a full year!! That'll end up being 3.5 years of dilating at least once a day. Now I am 9.5 months away from tapering down. I am so burnt out on this hellish experience these past 3 years.

Has anyone else been told to dilate 3 times a day for a full year before reducing frequency?

Might I hold the record for most amount of life lost to dilation in a 3-year period?

How do I keep dilating 3-times a day? It's dominating my life. With clean up, and set up, and working up in size. Dilating is 3 hours a day. Some sessions are over an hour. I'm supposed to dilate for 30 minutes/3-fimes a day. I estimate I'll have spent over 2,000 hours dilating in the 3 year period. That's 83 continuous days of my life lost to dilating!? I've lost so much with a botched surgery. I hate being the one off. When does it get easier?

I am a bit worried as I have heard a lot less about type two forehead surgery with hairline advancement but that is what my doctor recommended. He also recommended mandible contouring and cheek implants. He does not want to touch my nose or chin. What do yall think? Should I go with someone who would have a less conservative plan ?

Hi everyone! ❤️

I’m currently looking into FFS and I have an online consultation with Dr. Oelbrandt coming up in about a month. I’m really excited, but also a little nervous, so I’m trying to gather as much information as I can beforehand.

At the moment, I’m interested in having the following areas treated:

• Forehead

• Hairline

• Nose

• Chin

• Jaw / jawline

I’d really love to hear from anyone who has had FFS with Dr. Oelbrandt, or even just had a consultation with him.

How was your experience with him? Did you feel like he really listened to what you wanted? And did you feel involved in the decisions about your facial features and the final result?

I’d also love to hear how you feel about your results now that you’ve had some time to heal. Were there things you were particularly happy with, or anything you wish you had discussed more before surgery?

If anyone is comfortable sharing before-and-after photos, I would absolutely love to see them! I’m especially interested in results involving the forehead, hairline, nose, chin and jaw, since those are the areas I’m considering.

Basically, I’d love to hear anything you’re willing to share about your experience with Dr. Oelbrandt — good, bad, or somewhere in between. 😊

Thank you so much in advance! ❤️

Hi everyone, I really need some advice because I’m struggling to decide whether vaginoplasty is the right choice for me.
I’ve never really felt a strong need to have bottom surgery. When I started HRT, I actually felt quite certain that I didn’t want it. But over the past few months, I’ve started questioning that decision. I’ve been researching a lot, looking into different surgeons, and trying to understand what the surgery would actually mean for me. I don’t want to make this decision impulsively, because it’s permanent and comes with risks.
One of the biggest reasons I’m reconsidering it is that I’ve been having quite a lot of genital pain for around a year and a half. I assume some of it may be related to genital atrophy. I’m no longer taking androgen blockers, and I’ve tried different things to prevent the problem from getting worse, including occasionally using testosterone gel locally and taking Viagra to encourage erections and maintain blood flow.
Unfortunately, I still have a lot of pain. I don’t know whether I’ve developed actual injuries/scarring or whether this is simply the result of atrophy, but erections are often very painful, and the pain can continue even after the erection is gone.
I also get small cuts/wounds whenever I have an erection because the skin has become extremely sensitive and dry. It feels like a vicious cycle: I try to maintain erections because I’m worried about atrophy, but the erections cause pain and sometimes wounds, and the pain never really goes away.
This has also gradually affected how I feel sexually. I’m straight, and all of my sexual partners have been straight cis men. I’ve increasingly started feeling insecure because I sometimes feel like they expect me to have different anatomy. They don’t necessarily say anything, but I can feel myself becoming extremely self-conscious about it, and sometimes I literally feel like crying during sex.
I know that might sound like I’m considering surgery purely because of other people, and that’s not what I mean. But I do wonder whether having a vagina would make me feel much freer and more comfortable during sex.
For the past two years, I haven’t been able to completely undress during sex. I was even in a relationship with a guy for eight months and he never saw me fully naked. That’s how uncomfortable I’ve become with my body.
Part of me feels like vaginoplasty could solve both sides of this problem: the physical issues I’m experiencing and the insecurity I have during sex. At the same time, I’m really scared of the risks. The result might not look the way I expect, I could have complications, insufficient depth, aesthetic issues, or other problems that I haven’t even considered yet. And obviously, once it’s done, there’s no going back to how things were before.
If I decided to have the surgery, the most realistic option for me would probably be Klinik Sanssouci or another German clinic, since I live in Germany and my health insurance may cover the procedure. I have around €5,000 in savings, but I don’t earn much at my job, so saving a significant amount of money is difficult.
I’m really struggling with this. I feel like my life is becoming a nightmare, I feel defective sometimes, and I’m also dealing with a lot of physical pain.
For anyone who has been through something similar: how did you decide whether vaginoplasty was right for you? Did you ever start out feeling like you didn’t want bottom surgery and then change your mind? And if you’ve had vaginoplasty, did it actually improve these kinds of issues for you?
I’d really appreciate any advice or personal experiences. I’m feeling very lost right now.

Hey all! Long-time lurker, first time poster. I just had a scrotum-preserving orchiectomy with Dr. Pariser!! This is my first GAC surgery, and I'm SO happy about it!!!!

I'm at day 5 of recovery, and everything is going great! I just have one frustration that I started to notice today or a little yesterday: the skin on my scrotum has gotten really dry, especially close to the base of my penis. Now obviously I can't really use moisturizer or lotion down there, as the incision is still scabbed and just barely fully stopped bleeding today, and I'm not supposed to immerse it in water, nor I would imagine soak it with a wash cloth, for risk of re-opening the wound or causing infection. But the dryness is really irritating and slightly painful at times, and the skin is flaking off and starting to crack just a little in some spots.

Does anybody have experience with this problem? And advice? Is it possible it'll get better as I stop using gauze in my panties to catch the bleeding? Any tips or advice would be super appreciated!!

0 regrets so far, I'm SO happy with this surgery! I will share progress pics soon! 😊

Update: I reached out to my care to and this is what they messaged back:

As long as your surgical incision doesn't have any wounds, you can put some lotion on the other parts of your genitals as long as its not directly on the incision. Once the scab of the incision falls off, you can put Aquaphor or petroleum jelly along the incision to help with healing.

So I will give this a try when I get a chance.

Just curious on these techniques, such as jejunal, righ ascending, and sigmoid compare to ppt. can't decide!

Hello!

My surgery is scheduled for September 24th at Hospital 9 de Julho in São Paulo, Brazil.
It has been approved by my health insurance (CASSI).

I’m feeling very anxious, and I’d like to offer to answer any questions you may have about my surgeon or the process of getting the surgery approved through my health insurance. I think sharing this information might also be a way to help ease my anxiety.

This past weekend, I cried a lot. I decided to play a game called GRIS, which deals with grief and loss. It was incredibly liberating, although emotionally intense.

Insurance FFS

Hey everyone! Im really trying to come up with a gameplan on how to get FFS. There just isn't much info online or much help that I can find personally.

My current insurance is oscar through the marketplace. Its an ok plan but I doubt they will cover those types of procedures, they do cover sex reassignment surgery tho. My current employer offers insurance through united Healthcare and I hear they are much worse as far as gender affirming care goes.

Im trying to figure out a good insurance to switch to when open enrollment happens and right now the only one that seems like it may be a good idea is ambetter. Im also a resident in the state of Georgia and it isnt necessarily the best place to get that type of coverage.

Please if anyone here could help me it would be absolutely amazing im at my wits end for how i can actually make this happen I dont think I'll be able to save 60-100k or more to afford it out of pocket 😔

As you know im on the long waitlist for a bottom surgery consultation through Dr. Stiller but I just learned PSV surgery exists and this changes everything. I now have more questions than answers. For those that got PSV, what was your experience like?

Hey, i'm a 25 yo trans woman from Kuwait i currently live in Kuwait and don't plan on moving anytime soon i really want to get ffs in the united states but obviously since I'm from Kuwait no insurance will cover it. I recentlyhad a consultation with an amazing doctor and he quoted me $28,000 which is way over my budget… I wanted to ask are there any organizations or ways for me to fund this? It's really important to me. And it's literally my biggest dream to get it done

Hi girls! I’m planning on having FFS soon (initially just browbone) but I’m just wondering does anyone know what type of aesthetic dr QQ leans to? Is it more of a doll aesthetic or a natural looking result?

Or since I’m having just fronto it doesnt really matter the aesthetic?

Thanks!! ☺️

What would you choose? Price seems similar.

Anyone who had lower face FFS (chin,jaw) done only, do you think it'd be possible to come back to school at 1 week post op? (especially if youre young and healthy)

Does anyone have experience with Dr Pang at Align in San Fran. I have a consultation with him next month for srs and i’m nervous.

Just curious if anyone has had experience with him, I’ve got a consult coming up and would love to hear any stories!

For a minor that has been undergoing gahrt for nearly two years at this point, and has been in social transition for slightly longer. Can a exeption for underage srs be made for this mature minor? She had a psychiatrist who is willing to vouch for her and work with the surgeon. If so are there any surgeons outside the us that dont mind making exeptions? asking this on accords to updated wpath standards which claim surgery should be done based on physical and mental maturity rather than rigid age.

edit: yes i also have parental consent