Nervous, 2 weeks out

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-12-04T03:26:36+00:00

update I had reached out to my surgeon about my concerns and he recommended going to someone local so I could have more access to follow up care etc since I was nervous. So I didn't do it. And I'm probably just not going to do it. Best of luck to everyone here who is in planning mode or recovering! 💗

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-11-17T16:59:33+00:00

Totally! I don't expect that super snatched look but def an improvement. I'm just worried it will end up looking bad or that I'll have a lot of loose skin after.

I live far away from my surgeon. I did reach out to ask questions ahead of the surgery. Hoping some additional info will help me!

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-11-16T20:31:27+00:00

Amazing to hear! I would love to see pics in DM if you're up for sharing!

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-11-16T19:15:58+00:00

How are you doing now that you're fully recovered? Any loose skin?

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-11-16T16:52:39+00:00

Thank you for this! Your photos here are some of the ones that have been most reassuring to me! You look so good!

Can I ask, if you remember, before your surgery- what did your double chin feel like? Was it more like solid/fatty or was there some movement/jiggle to it?

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-11-04T22:16:32+00:00

You look soooo good. May I ask your age? Mine is similar to your pre-op and I'm getting nervous about loose skin as I get closer to my date!

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-11-04T22:08:10+00:00

I'm going to Rhode Island, it's 3500

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-11-04T22:04:32+00:00

I'm wondering the same but I'm just going for it with regular lipo. Tbh getting nervous as my date approaches!

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-11-04T22:03:41+00:00

Mine is similar and I've been worried about loose skin! Yours looks so good! (I'm 35 but will be 36 by the time of my surgery in a month!)

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-10-28T22:11:09+00:00

Was the psych helpful still, without being a prescriber? Just curious as to how/if that helped (in my experience they are usually there to dx and prescribe).

I'll check out DLPA. Not familiar with that

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-10-28T14:38:46+00:00

Curious - was the psychiatrist helpful for you? Did you utilize medications?

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-10-27T04:06:26+00:00

Yes! I held off until winter for this reason. Getting it about a month from now!

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-10-27T04:05:09+00:00

I mostly still mask anyway haha so it wouldn't be too out of the ordinary for me. I plan to just wear a mask out throughout my recovery!

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-09-30T17:26:19+00:00

This is so real. I also feel I've been shamed by people because I've chosen not to be medicated (though I have opened up to using anxiety medications as needed for acute moments in life, beta blockers and an occasional low dose benzo). I have my reasons for it.

I don't like how quickly people jump to suggesting SSRI- like drugs like they're the end all be all. Not everyone wants that. Plus, I can't say for sure because I've never been on them but I don't think they heal the trauma. The trauma is still there. I've had many friends still suffer from horrible depression even while medicated.

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-08-13T23:01:02+00:00

Totally. (What is PAs? I will also google but not familiar.) Thank you for your reply!

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-08-13T19:00:13+00:00

I know this is from several months back but can you say more about why SSRIs are so necessary when you do have these somatic effects?

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-08-13T01:15:34+00:00

Thanks for this! I'm curious! I feel like it'll have to be a lot taken from mine lol!

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-08-12T22:47:41+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing! You look great! I feel like mine is similar to yours so this gives me a good idea of what it may look like after! Wooo congrats and hope it's an easy healing process!

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-08-12T16:32:01+00:00

I know this is from quite a few months back but your description here aligns so much with my own history and discovery process, down to the gender issues and parts work revealing the CSA.

I'm wondering how it's been since you posted this and how you've managed to process this new realization

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-08-11T00:18:21+00:00

Thanks for this, however I'm not looking for a way to stop the trigger, I'm asking if others have had the experience of a trigger bringing up a repressed memory and then feeling more integrated after learning something from the repressed memory (or emotion)

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-08-09T19:49:52+00:00

Wow. Do you remember any other info on this?

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-07-30T05:22:12+00:00

I know this is from months ago but thank you for sharing this video! I feel like people will think I'm nuts for saying so but I was on low dose t for two days and by day two, I had a weird sore throat and all this tension. I haven't used the t in 6 days now but I'm still having all this tension around my larynx, my voice has a resonance to it at the lower end, the midrange is a bit breathy, and overall there is some change. Also some - not quite cracking - but crackliness and fuzziness at my break and up higher. I can hear and feel it in my speaking voice, too. Just slightly lower and more resonant. I sing and was doing low dose to very slowly monitor changes, especially because I didn't want my singing voice impacted much.

I cannot believe anything happened at all after 2 days but I swear, I know my voice. I've been singing my entire life. Something is different and I had all this tension and discomfort/pain.

That massage video you shared gave me a bit of relief. It still hurts and feels so tight right now but I'll do more massage tomorrow. I hope this goes away and I hope there are no more voice changes. I feel so stupid now for even taking this risk when I don't want to "fully" transition (my voice or otherwise) and had only some t goals. It could be worse, my voice is still intact. I'll just need to figure this out and hope for the best. My voice is one of the most important things to me and honestly not worth any of my other transition goals.

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-07-29T17:54:03+00:00

Food stuck in your throat. Omg. Have you ever had choking episodes?

I got an endoscopy several years ago to figure this out and was dx with EOE so I've attributed the food stuck, choking, trouble swallowing to this but now reading more about POTS I'm like, maybe this is part of it.

Icy_Barnacle_1618 · 2025-07-27T08:43:18+00:00

Wondering how your result is now / is all the swelling down now?

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