Questions About Chest Surgery

[Guest My_Genesis]

Hey guys, so I've been thinking a lot about what chest surgery would be best for me. It would definitely be awhile before I actually do it, since college is making me broke as it is lol. The fact that bilateral leaves those huge scars really bugs me, but I don't know if I "qualify" for peri. I'm an A cup..actually going by my measurements, not even that, because A-cup is a 1inch difference and I have 34-34. Don't know exactly how that works but hey I'm not gonna complain

Anyway I know it makes more sense to go by measurements than emotions lol. But somehow I feel like peri wouldn't be good for me. When I look at the before & after photos on transter.com they all look smaller than I do. Maybe it's psychological/dysphoria-related or something, but it just seems like you have to pretty much be flat to begin with for peri to work (even though if you go by the books they say A to small B, which is more where I'd fit in.)

So when is peri not effective?

[Guest Martin]

With those measurements, you qualify for a peri. I understand the feeling that you're too big - I had those fears too, even those I repeatedly measured myself. The feeling went away when my surgeon told me I was a candidate. I think part of the problem is the angle that you see yourself vs. the angle you see everyone else. When you look down, you get a profile which makes them look bigger than when you look at them straight on as in a picture. Dysphoria can also play a huge part. You know how people with anorexia often think they look fat even when they are very skinny? The same thing can happen to trans people - we think like we look like the wrong sex more than we actually do.

[Guest My_Genesis]

The same thing can happen to trans people - we think like we look like the wrong sex more than we actually do.

Meaning I probably appear more feminine to others than I see myself?

See, this girl the other night was saying she was a C cup, and I couldn't believe it because it seems like we're about the same size, which made me start worrying about it even more. I find it funny that it seems like about 99.9% of girls are bigger than me yet with them I underestimate (like, "wow, you look more like an A to me than a C")

I just don't want to end up with this really strange contour and all like a lot of those photos I looked at

[Guest Martin]

No, meaning that you probably think you look more feminine to yourself than you do to anyone else.

My best advice unfortunately requires money, but if you really want to know, schedule a consultation with the best surgeon you can afford. Ask him/her if you are a candidate, what your chances for dogears are, and so on. And then trust his/her professional judgment.

[Guest StrandedOutThere]

Meaning I probably appear more feminine to others than I see myself?

See, this girl the other night was saying she was a C cup, and I couldn't believe it because it seems like we're about the same size, which made me start worrying about it even more. I find it funny that it seems like about 99.9% of girls are bigger than me yet with them I underestimate (like, "wow, you look more like an A to me than a C")

I just don't want to end up with this really strange contour and all like a lot of those photos I looked at

You know how girls are about cup size. They tend to say they are bigger than they are.

Like Martin said, with the chest surgery, the best thing is to consult a surgeon or a couple of surgeons if you can, and let them tell you which one would be best. If you're an A, then peri would probably be fine, but only a surgeon could say for sure. I didn't look at a lot of peri pics because there was NO WAY that was going to work for me. I think a lot of the peri results I've seen that looked bad were with people that were close to the borderline for that surgery. There are probably some guys out there that were so concerned with not having the DI scars that maybe they opted for peri when they shouldn't. When you look at pics, you definitely want to take presurgery size and body type into account.

[Guest Evan_J]

You know how girls are about cup size. They tend to say they are bigger than they are.

Ain't that the truth ! My exwife was always "C almost D" and I would think "honey, I know I've seen a lot of breasts and those are hardly C's much less D's lol."

It's like they all have some kind of dream where they all wanna be "busty babes".

In any case, Stranded has the best advice, get a doc.

<--Is in the process of looking.

[Guest My_Genesis]

lol, well actually I don't think she was overestimating because she we were talking about underwires and she said she has to have underwire because she's a C. So it made sense in context

Yeah I don't know I'm concerned more with areola size than overall cup size lol

[Guest Martin]

I'm pretty sure surgeons can trim the areola during a peri, though I'm not 100% positive.

[Guest matthew41]

I'm pretty sure surgeons can trim the areola during a peri, though I'm not 100% positive.

Yeah, ask whichever surgeon you are interested in using but to the best of my knowledge most surgeons will trim the areola to male proportions. When you are an A to a slight B, the extra skin after tissue is remove underneath can be pulled to cover what was trimed and sewn around the areola.

The original question of when is peri not effective;

When you are bigger then a B. To much skin is left to sag. Building up large pecks helps reduce some of the sag but often some is left.

For some the location of nipples would look unnatural. Look at the location of your areolas relative to the width of your chest. Male location is typically toward the outer third. If you are happy with where yours would be, then a peri would probably work.