I've changed my mind about the NHS for gyne operations. I had one 2 1/2 years ago and I used to think that it was a pretty reasonable job. But now having had a revision by a semi private PS I can reflect a bit, compare it... and say in actual fact the NHS job stank.
Reasons why the NHS stinks like that old white dog poo you always used to see as a kid:
1. The wait and the torment. Having to convince my GP for the need for surgery. Waiting 4 months to see if a surgeon would even give me a consultation. Then having to convince him of the necessity of me having to have the op. Waiting another 6 months with no real guarantee's and a slightly uneasy feeling.
2. Finally getting to the big day and finding out that the surgeon the hospital had contracted in to do the job was a general surgeon NOT a PS.
3. The put off's all the way through from every person in the NHS I met with. Gyne is hard to deal with as it is without having some kiss arse who really just wants to save a few coffers by getting you to back out, and telling you all manner of things that could go wrong in a rather condescending fashion.
4. The surgeon being totally unflexible. You have this done it will be gland excision with no lipo. I will not remove all of it. You could lose a nipple. Are you sure you want to go ahead with this?
5. The surgeon being true to his word and not removing all of it :-/
6. The absolute piss take that I just had an amazing revision op done on Taiwan's NHS after a 7 day waiting list 
and got Taipei's top PS to perform the op including lipo at a slight extra cost of about 200 quid. What the hell is going on in England?
lopher
BEST POST I HAVE EVER READ ON THIS FORUM!
I just had my op done just shy of 2 weeks ago on the NHS and everything you mentioned hit home on my entire experience. I waited roughly a year from seeing my GP to the op, which I'm told is quite good for the NHS. You are so right with them scare mongering you, when I met with the surgeon I left his office having doubts and was basically terrified of ending up deformed. He tried to tell me he can hardly see a problem and he doesn't think there is any gland there. Under both nipples I have rock hard lumps pushing the nipples out. He said he recomends just lipo. I was adement that lipo wouldn't do it, I had be very underweight with the problem still visable, I new I needed excision, he agreed. On the day of the op he came round again and said am I sure I want excision not just lipo, we agreed excision and lipo. I wake up from the op in the recovery room, the surgeon was not there but the Doctors first words were "we just did liposuction, thats all that was needed". I said what about the gland, they said the surgeon took it out with the lipo. I had a very unconfident feeling from then onwards. So obviously here I am just under 2 weeks later with a much smaller chest due to at being removed, but what do you know still with nipples that stick out like cones and sag, with rock hard lumps behined them!.
Thats 2 weeks from the gym I've missed, a week from work I've missed and plenty of pain and not being able to move around like normal and for what? I was dieting losing that fat myself. I am fuming angry. It was agreed I'd have excision. The worste part was, they discharged me without the surgeon or anyone for that matter even coming round to talk to me.
Its not till feb 20th that I go back to see the surgeon again now. I think I will punch him unless he does a suitable revision there and then!
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