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    Gyno Surgery

    Hey guys,

    Today I had my gyno surgery. I finally stepped up to the plate and did it. This is my story about how it went.

    I have had this gyno since I first hit puberty. I was always pretty skinny buy I had a pointy chest, this stopped me from going to the beach with my shirt off when I got a little older, I never went to the pools etc. It really bothered me. I thought at first I must have had fat around my chest because I was just unlucky and this is where my fat was stored. I started working out when I was around 22 and went to the gym 5 days a week. I toned up and got to be very skinny but the fat around my chest never seemed to get any lower. I searched on Google and came across many sites and that’s when I first thought that I might have had gyno. I didn’t do anything about it until I was 24 because I was scared of going under the knife. Well finally I decided that something had to be done.

    I started searching the net for surgeons who could do the surgery and ended up deciding to use Dr. Ashley Granot from the Ashley Centre in Melbourne. I went to see him for a consultation and had all the blood tests. It turns out that all my blood work was perfectly normal for a guy my age. They didn’t have a reason why I had gyno; it was just one of those things. Anyway the surgery set me back $4500 all up including EVERYTHING.

    On the day that I was going into surgery I wasn’t allowed to eat anything for 6 hours before operation. I went in and I was nervous as anything. They got me to strip down into a surgical gown and the nurse gave me an intramuscular injection into my glute, it was pain killer and relaxants. I thought it was going to hurt but it didn’t hurt that much at all. After that another nurse put a drip into my arm, I thought it was going to hurt again, but it didn’t, they put heaps of saline into the drip.

    After about 15 minutes of waiting for the drugs to kick in the doctor came into the room and cut an incision into my armpit. He inserted a clear plastic tube into the incision and started to pump me full of muscle relaxants, pain killer and something to dilute the fat. He put about 800mls into my chest. After that we waited another 15 minutes for the pain killer and fat diluting solution to start working. The inserting of the clear plastic tube was the most painful part of the surgery. I think painful is a bit harsh of a word. I would say it was VERY uncomfortable. As he was pushing in the tube I could feel the fat ripping away from the muscle below it.

    After that he got the liposuction canula and started sucking out the fat. This took a fair while and didn’t hurt for the most part. A few times he hit a hard part of fat which would hurt very slightly but it was bearable. When he finished sucking out all the fat there was still a bit of breast tissue which he could not get out through the canula because it was too hard. So he made an incision around my nipple and pulled it out with some tweezer looking things and he just cut it. This was uncomfortable as I could feel the tissues being ripped out of my chest. But it didn’t hurt. After this was done he sewed me up and I could sit up and put on my compression vest.

    Throughout the entire procedure I was awake and could see what was going on. I was sedated but not fully knocked out. The doctor said he did not want to give me general anesthetic and knock me out fully because that was too risky for a minor procedure. He said something like 1 in 10,000 people die from an allergic reaction to general anesthetic or something like that. Plus I wanted to be awake because I didn’t want anything to stuff up and I had heard some horror stories about doctors cutting out chest muscles and stuff like that. I was talking throughout the whole procedure, probably a lot of jibberish cause of all the relaxants but yea.

    All in all I am happy that I finally have my gyno gone and I have a flat chest. I only did the surgery this morning and I am already up and about. It doesn’t hurt much at all, it just feels like a really hard gym workout session and I can’t lift my arms over my head. Other than that I got some pain killers but I don’t even need them. If you are thinking about doing this, just DO IT. Don’t be scared of the surgery it’s not that bad.

    If you have any questions ill be happy to answer them. Tomorrow I have to go back to the surgery for a post op check up.

    My chest is FLAT!!!!!!!


    Hope I have helped someone out there!

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    cool... thanks for sharing that.

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    can you ballpark what this costs man thank you very much in advance if not no worries

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    Quote Originally Posted by CRACKER View Post
    can you ballpark what this costs man thank you very much in advance if not no worries
    Most insurance will cover bro. But if you pay out of pocket anywhere from 1500 to 2500. I had one back in 02 and my bf is having surgery monday he has bad its in both sides but his surgery is covering it.

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    not bad informative thank you.

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    Will insurance cover it if you use a plastic surgeon? I had to use a general surgeon and he left some pretty big scars. I wish I had just paid for the plastic surgeon. Same thing happened to a friend of mine.

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    I just had surgery done about one month ago, luckily my gyno was small and only under the nipple. They completely knocked me out, all I remember is talking to the nurse and then waking up. It felt like a really good nights sleep. The same day I was up and about with no pain at all, which really surprised me. I didn't even need to use the percocet that I was prescribed. The next day I went on a 5 mile walk with no issues whatsoever. I only got some pain after about a week, I think it was because of the nerves reattaching themselves. Luckily my insurance covered the bulk of the costs.

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