Resource links
Pre-surgical considerations
Pre-op questions
Pre-op exercises
Preparing for top surgery
- Kaiser Permanente's prep for transgender top surgery
- Kaiser Permanente's top surgery packet (good info regarding FMLA and SDI)
Top Surgery rehab guides
Medication reminder/tracker
- "Medication tracking log"
- We used this app for medication reminders: Max
Skin and scar management
- Scar massage
- Scar strips vs gel
- Mind the Gap: A handbook of clinical signs in Black and Brown skin
- Trans Guys: Complete Guide to Surgery Scar Care
Manual lymphatic drainage (MLD)
- How to self manual lymphatic drainage) Note: not all steps in this packet are necessary. Do not do MLD on the chest or do scar massage until 2-3 weeks post op. Also, interaxillary (step 8) and axillary-inguinal (step 9-11) pathways are not necessary.
- Self MLD first 2-3 weeks.pdf
- Self MLD weeks 3 + wks post op.pdf
- The Lymphatic Drainage System
- Intro to the Lymph System
Nipple grafts
- Nipple Grafts
- In the occasion that your nipple graft does not take:
- Temporary Nipple Tattoos
- Permanent tattoos
- Nipple and Decorative Tattoo artists near Santa Cruz, CA:
- Tessia Spisak: (510) 229-8261
- Jil Hoyer (Los Gatos)
- Silicone nipples