I went to my doctor today to talk to him about getting top surgery. He informed me that the 7K-ish (us dollars) price that some transguys online had posted as the price for their surgery was probably the price after insurance, and that it costs 20K (us dollars) to get top surgery minus insurance, when including all expenses: double mastectomy+nipple grafts+ hospital stay+anesthesia+trip, and what ever else. I was planning to donate plasma and do other random extra jobs to save up for top surgery. I am currently a college student so am pretty poor. I am now freaking out that I have to save up 20K if my insurance doesn't pay anything. I don't want to be binding my bumps down for 5 years or more!!
A good way to earn money is making and selling things on Etsy, babysitting, or sites like swagbucks. I also believe there are programs meant to help save for top surgery but I'm not sure.
Thank you. I am saving up already. I just am not sure if my doctor is right about how much top surgery is? I get the impression that he has worked with trans people before, but he doesn't actually do much investigation, he prescribed T after blood work and then referred me to a clinic an hour and half away.
From my knowledge, the procedure in and of itself costs 7-10 thousand US dollars without insurance. That is purely for the surgical procedure, though, not for all the other things such as hospital stay, anesthetic, etc. that your doctor listed. I've heard this multiple times, so I'm not sure if 10 thousand is just the average cost of a hospital stay (minus the procedure) in America, if your state is more expensive for some reason, or if your doctor is mistaken. I'd recommend getting a second opinion on the price just to be sure - preferably from a gender specialist, if you can?
I can. I just got an appointment with the Gender clinic that is an hour and a half away, I go in February. I do have insurance through my state I just don't know what they will cover as far as trans related stuff. I gotta get back to the; there is hope mind set. Because I am feeling really depressed and like I am just trapped today. Plus I realized that apparently I have some crazy internalized trans issues that I didn't even know I had. As if you even wanted to know any of this, I'm just anxiety writing I think, sorry. It's a really weird day, I had my second T shot yesterday, and have been some where between horny and depressed all day. Don't know if it is the T, I suppose hormones doing a dance in ones system probably does something to their emotions and brain chemistry.
