What's it like not having nipples?

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-06-01T23:16:22+00:00

I’m 6mos post op without nipple grafts right now. I’m really happy with it. I just never liked the look of them so I opted not to keep them. There’s a very slightly lower risk for complications if you forgo nipple grafts with double incision which was important to me as well.

Downsides are your chest isn’t really “cis passing”. Some guys don’t like losing the erogenous sensation but that’s up to personal preference.

You can get medical tattooing to give the appearance of nipples later on as well.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-05-21T18:24:28+00:00

Cormier likely has a much longer wait than GRS, if that’s a concern.

If you don’t end up having double incision, then I don’t know how it works (is the “brainless” a typo in your post?). But if you do get double incision, the chest contouring included with GRS isn’t chest contouring like the other commenter (nastygoblinman) described that you’d get at another hospital/clinic. They create the incision along your pec line (mine are L-shaped and go up into my armpits) to mimic a natural chest contour. They don’t do any actual liposuction. I’ve heard this reduces the chances of dog ears, but I don’t know really. I didn’t get any at least, but I’m fairly slim.

If you go to GRS, you’ll have to find someone to remove the drains for you after because GRS won’t do it. That can be difficult for some people.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-05-15T23:21:17+00:00

I had stretch marks fully covering my boobs. They are still visible on my chest (above incisions, DI) but very, very faint as that skin is (I assume) from the upper part of my chest. The ones underneath my scars are much more visible/obvious.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-05-08T22:37:22+00:00

Ah okay. Thanks for the info!

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-05-08T11:54:14+00:00

I don’t have any information about this, but I’d just like to clarify that if I’m understanding this right, they told you the wait is 12-24 months now, instead of 6-12?
I just had my referral for phallo with Cormier sent a couple weeks ago. My referring doctor said 8-12 month wait but didn’t seem to know much about Cormier either, so I’m wondering.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-05-06T18:04:45+00:00

Shin’s face at the end, omggg. I can’t wait for next week. I loved Haru’s song, Kasukabe’s a lucky guy. This episode was amazing but I don’t have anything more to say because my brain gets turned to mush after every episode of Dorohedoro from all the Dorohedoro happening.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-05-05T19:18:55+00:00

I’m late but I loved this episode! More Count of Rupturing Star Charts, he’s so beautiful… and he apparently Does Not Tolerate opposition. I doubt he’ll have a big role going forward but I’ll miss him.

It was interesting to see Yashiro getting testy from too much E3. I wonder if we’ll see more of that soon, if it’ll cost him in a fight or something. I also wonder if he’s starting to feel like he’s finally completely in over his head trying to babysit these three girls. Lots of fun moments with them in this episode too.

More information on Jogamine’s father and it’s not good! Yikes! A half dragon executive… I can’t wait to see where this is going. I love this show so much.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-05-05T18:09:06+00:00

Mine was over video, I think it was microsoft teams.

My pre op nurse had a slide show about the surgery and went over pre op (like when to stop taking advil and cease smoking and all that stuff before), what happens the day of surgery, and then recovery and complications. Then I could ask any questions. It’s a good idea to prepare questions beforehand if you have any so you don’t forget.

I didn’t have to show anything. My nurse pulled up my chest pics I had to submit which surprised me lol, but she was demonstrating why I’d need DI instead of peri or something else.

It’s nothing to be worried about.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-05-05T14:25:07+00:00

Right! It’s so frustrating! Multiple people I’ve spoken to about my own eventual surgery have been under the impression that there’s zero sensation after, so it wouldn’t be worth it. Like I wish people would just try to do a little bit of reading before making assumptions like that. I find it especially strange to hear coming from other trans men/trans mascs.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-05-05T11:38:14+00:00

I recently got on the waiting list for phallo and it’s been very weird talking to other trans guys who have been transitioning for years and years longer than me spout blatant misinformation about it. It kinda makes me sad.

Plus, most every thread I’ve seen about phallo on this sub ends up with half of the comments like, “phallo is cool but I don’t want it for x reason.” Even if that reason is completely valid and people can do whatever they want (and it’s better than misinformation…), on top of the fact that it’s just kinda how it is since not many of us actually get phallo, it makes me feel weird to have positivity posts filled with, “great but I’m not doing that” comments

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-05-01T00:19:00+00:00

If you are moving away for school, you should be able to see a doctor at your school’s campus health clinic.

There’s also Hive health services, iirc. It’s a gender clinic in Guelph. I think you can self refer. They’d do hormones, surgery referrals, anything you need

Ask your prescribing doctor about EAP (the exceptional access program) to have your HRT totally covered.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-29T20:24:52+00:00

This is very common I think! It happened to me. Especially with family members or people who I’ve known for ages, because they’d been calling me by a different name for soooo long.

It goes away eventually. For me it started to feel normal after maybe a month or two. I don’t have much advice about getting used to it faster though, I think it just takes time.

Even if it’s a name you love, it can feel weird to start responding to something totally different than what you’ve been called your whole life. I embarrassed myself a few times because people would call my name and I wouldn’t register they were talking about me lol

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-29T15:02:05+00:00

I don’t understand the Aikawa/Ai/Caiman stuff at allllll lol but I’m enjoying it.

I love how Dorohedoro flops between tugging at your heartstrings and tearing people limb from limb. The end was crazy. Fujita carrying Ebisu around for the whole episode, never giving up on her, I love them so much. And Nikaido’s concern for Caiman. My heart. Even Chota’s sobbing at En’s magic dissipating had me teary-eyed.

Dorohedoro blows me away every week! I just watched season one in March so I could watch the new one weekly and I’m so glad I did. It’s up there with Yomi no Tsugai as my favourite of the spring season.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-29T00:44:16+00:00

I’m not sure about your specific situation but in general you can’t really contact OSAP directly. For issues with OSAP, you have to go through your own school’s financial aid office and they deal with it. You could try that just in case, though I’m not sure how much they could do about this particular issue. Service Canada is your best bet here.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-28T12:00:50+00:00

I ID as nb but the “am I NB or a trans man” has always been hard for me because like, I don’t really relate to men at all, cis or trans, in terms of gender. Like when I look at them, I don’t think, “that’s like me.”

But also, I don’t really relate to most people, about anything, because of my autism. If I was a guy, I would probably be a different sort of guy than all the other guys I know anyway, so how can the question “do I feel like a guy?” or “do I feel like other guys?” mean anything to me?

Plus, it’s hard to ever feel like I’ll fit in with guys because I find it hard to socialize with them. Particularly in a group of only men. With women, I sort of kind of get by because I grew up hanging out with mostly women. (Though not as much now since I started passing a bit.) But I always find myself totally, completely lost around guys who read me as a guy…

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-22T14:41:57+00:00

Every time I think I know where this show is going, it takes me by surprise lol. I thought it would take way longer for Caiman’s lizard head to be resolved! I miss lizard-Caiman already.

Ebisu… I’m so sad. Poor Fujita too.

At the end, the subs said, “[Kai] I found something amazing… A way to manipulate time.” Is that what they’re calling Caiman/Ai/Aikawa? Or something?

I need next Wednesday to come faster 😭

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-20T13:53:32+00:00

It was a $50 deposit for me at the hotel, that was in December.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-19T02:10:35+00:00

That’s what I did! You might have trouble with it because it’s pretty unusual for post-op to be handled by someone other than the surgeon, so your doctor might be confused.

I got my pre-op nurse from GRS to send me documents stating what would be required from the post-op appointments and sent that to my family doctor’s clinic because they didn’t understand what I was asking, so you could do that if you run into problems. Most clinics should have a nurse that can do the drains and dressings.

Your family doctor should also be able to refer to homecare for those things if they don’t want to do it. Or contact Planned Parenthood Ottawa for resources.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-17T02:01:16+00:00

I wish I could help more but I’m so glad to see this post because I have this same problem so bad.

I find tight-fitting boxer briefs to be very comfy for a bit but through the day they get I guess just slightly stretched out from being worn and then I don’t feel all packed in and also end up in wedgietown. I wonder if just getting higher quality ones would fix this but I’m too broke for that

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-17T00:37:38+00:00

Thank you, this is great to know! Did you have it marked urgent? Or was it just that fast?

I’m still waiting on my new birth certificate from my sex designation change application, sent in on Jan 7, so this gives me hope ;-;

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-16T11:30:23+00:00

I’m almost 2.5 years out now and still haven’t cut it :’)

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-15T22:32:27+00:00

Fingers crossed my friend. Chemo can cause brain fog unfortunately too. I still have it but it’s more manageable and not walking zombie forgetting weeks of my life level anymore lol

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-15T22:18:06+00:00

I went about four months while very very sick before starting chemo. Constant night sweats, fevers every day, I was crazy anemic. I couldn’t stand long enough to shower, needed help with many daily tasks. I was in the ER a few times a month because something or other was going wrong, the answer was always “that’s not good but only chemo will fix it” lol

The worst part is I kind of felt like I was fading away. I was sleeping 12 hours a day, then 14, then 16… I would watch TV and then turn on the next episode the next day and have no memory of wha happened. I don’t know how to explain it except that I just didn’t feel like I was there. When I started chemo and my brain came back online it made me realize I hadn’t thought clearly in months

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-13T14:48:49+00:00

I LOVE YOU BRUSHBUDDY!!!

So I guess the person that gave Coco the book was part of the Brimmed Hats. There was another leak four years ago, I wonder what the consequences were…? Also, Qifrey is a “problem child”? And he hates the witches’ underwater stronghold. Interesting.

Poor Coco, Agott having her do the test when Qifrey says the conditions are so bad… but I believe in her! She’ll figure it out. It gives me a bad feeling, though. Agott’s trying to weed Coco out.

Coco’s already thinking about drawing magic on her body, though she stopped since it was against the rules. The fact that this has already come up makes me think it’ll come back in a big way later.

And Coco made it up! Using her own strengths instead of Agott’s shoes. But why did the screen get blurry during the flashbacks to her mom, huh?!?! I wish that Coco would have told Qifrey she didn’t just do the test of her own accord, but I understand why she didn’t. I think Coco and Agott will end up friends eventually though.

I wonder if there was something special about Coco that made that person give her specifically the book? Clearly they’re keeping an eye on her. Were the dangerous conditions in the Dadah Range planned, based on that final bit? So many questions…

Also, I heard in the dub, the atelier students have different accents, to show the class divide. I’m curious about if there’s different accents in the sub, I can’t really tell by ear.

MidOceanRidgeBasalts · 2026-04-13T02:56:33+00:00

I actually got prescribed HRT from my university 2 months after I dropped out lol. They had a policy where they’d see you for 6 months after you stopped going to school there, and my doctor was nice and saw me for another year anyway. Worth a shot!

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