Hi guys.
Since I'm feeling much better now after the surgery I thought I'd let you know about my whole journey through being G free. It's only fair I give something to this forum and the users as I have received great advice and information through this forum.
I first started getting gyne when I was 23 I think never had it before I got it due to taking Propecia a hair loss pill. I can advise all those taking that pill avoid it at all cost, it really messes up things for you even more. Anyway so after I took this pill for about a few months I noticed I had moobs so I immediately stopped, I thought maybe the side effects will subside but it didn't. So I started researching the problem and came across this forum. I could have had the surgery with Karidis ages ago but thought I'd research it very well. So I spent a year almost just reading through these boards. And then Finally decided to take the plunge and get it out the way.
I went for the consultation about 4 weeks ago, went by train and used the underground, it was all a bit confusing for me as I have never been on a train before or the underground. I luckily managed to get to the hospital though, when I got there saw
Dr. Karidis, he checked my chest out and told me he could get me flat. I didn't really ask any questions as this forum gave me all that I should know. So it literally took 5 minutes. After that went to see Nicola arranged a date for the earliest and got 10th of January which I happily agreed. I paid all the fees etc there and then, didn't need to have the bloods done as I had them done before my consultation and had them sent off again this forum gave me all the info way in advanced. After that was sorted got myself back home again after a long tiring day and now it was waiting for the actual day to come.
A few days before my surgery I prepared myself with all I would need, I stocked my fridge and cupboards with all the healthy food and did all my cleaning, ironing etc as I wanted to keep the whole thing secret from my family. I made sure that I didn't have anything big to do when I got back from after surgery.
I also booked myself a hotel room as I didn't want nothing unexpected to happen travelling to London on the day of the surgery so thought I rather stay over the night before plus I knew how tiring it can be travelling from the Northwest to London and back again and after having a surgery I knew it probably would have been even more exhausting.
Well the day had come for me to head to London, so I got ready hit the train got to the hotel room. While I was at the hotel room didn't really sleep much as I can never sleep any other place apart from my own cosy bed. It wasn't the nerves keeping me up. To be honest I wasn't even nervous about the whole procedure for some reason I thought I might be since I have never been in a Hospital bed in my whole life.
The morning of the surgery arrived, I woke up had a shower and headed to the Hospital at 9am as my I was booked in for 10pm. When I got there checked in at the main reception waited for a few minutes and this lady called me over and took me to my room. While in the room filled in some paper work and then another nurse came in and took by blood pressure readings etc. Afterwards was given some surgery clothing to wear which I put on apart from the see through underwear they give you I just left it out and kept my own shorts on. Half hour later or so
Dr. Karidis came on to my room marked me up took some pics and told me I'll be up in about 45mins. I spent the time watching t.v and finally the hour had come for me to head down to the theatre. I still didn't feel and nerves kicking in even at that point. When I got to the theatre room lay on the bed and the nurse strapped some medical equipment on me and then the anaesthetist came in he did his thing even now I was still calm as a rock. He told me I would feel a little light headed which I can remember and that was it I was knocked out, It's kind of amazing how fast the drug works. I woke up later on to me it seemed as if I closed my eyes and re-opened them again that's how quick it seemed. While I was at the recovery room which was very noisy, I woke up because I was feeling quite hot, I think they pump hot air or something into the strapping on you legs. I felt really tired my throat was in pain a lot I managed however to say to the nurse I feel hot, in which I think she turned off whatever it was that was making me feel hot. A couple of minutes later I was whizzed off to my room again, I lay there for a quite sometime I dozed of now and then and the nurse would come round every 30mins to check my blood pressure. My throat was in most pain, I didn't really feel much pain from my chest. I drank loads of water to ease the throat pain, later on I asked the nurse for a cup of tea to see if it helps with my throat. Around about two hours later Jasmine came in gave me a compression vest and just went through everything I should and shouldn't do, a bit later on my meal came I ate everything as I was starving due to not eating for 14 hours. I had my surgery around about 11.45 and left the Hospital about 6pm I could have left earlier but thought I rather just hang about there as my train left at 7pm. I forgot to mention that I had problems passing urine, damn that was so hard. The nurse told me to cab it to the train station but I was feeling fine to use the underground so I just went with my own instincts and hit the tube. I was still not in much pain after walking down to the tube and getting to the train station. When I finally got home I was so relieved, I can't explain to you how relieved I was to see my house even more than having the whole procedure as the whole day was so tiring and I just wanted to be home and that was all that was going up in my head.
When I got home my sister and mother didn't realise nothing unusual, I could however as I was hunched up and my movement was slow and restricted. I got something to eat and hit the bed. Sleeping was really hard the first night I hardly slept to be honest, in the morning got a call from one of the girls from Karidis's office I told her I was doing fine. I finally got myself out of bed after laying there for 12hours, I woke up took off the padding and I was shocked at how flat I was. I had a shower didn’t really soaked myself as I was trying to be really protective even from the water, I got some cotton wools and just wiped gently around the incision sites. After the shower I reapplied some new plasters around the incision sites. That day I spend sitting around in my room and just eating and eating, healthy food though mostly vegetables. Well I don’t want to go rambling anymore I think I said a lot if I carry on any further it’ll be like a book.
I’m on day 6 now post op. Most of my movement is back, there’s only little or no pain left. My incisions have all healed up nicely, but I’m kind of getting a bit worried now because my right side is a bit bigger than my left, it has always been like that but I imagined with the surgery it would be evened out. I don’t know if this is swelling. Shouldn’t swelling be on both sides and not on one side?
My surgery cost me a total of £4600.
Travelling from Manchester -£150
Consultation fee-£75
Karidis fee-£2800
Hospital fee£-1483
Hotel-£50
That’s about it I think, I had the bloods done from my GP so that saved me a lot of money thankfully.
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