Rhinoplasty Barcelona, Spain

I had my penile inversion vaginoplasty performed by Dr. Labanca in May 2023, and it was the best experience of my life on so many levels. IM Clinic is the place to go to have GRS. I contacted several clinics in August 2022 to plan my GRS in 2023. After some initial communication, I narrowed it down to two clinics, and I selected IM Clinic due to the location (Europe), a competitive price level, good reviews (both online reads and through direct contact with former patients) and the quality of the communication. When you contact the IM Clinic, you get assigned a patient coordinator that follows you through the whole process. In my case, lovely Aida has been my single point of contact from the very beginning, and she is just fantastic in the way she answers all questions, facilitates and coordinates. We used WhatsApp, and it is a really efficient way to communicate. Perhaps my most memorable message from our communication is the message I received as I boarded my flight to Barcelona. I want to have control, and I tend to ask many questions, so the final message I received was just gold for me at that time: “Don't worry about a thing ... chill, you've got enough on your plate”. The whole process before the surgery was really assuring and good. When I arrived at the clinic, I was met by Aida, and she made sure everything was ok and also followed me to my room. And the room, and the clinic in general, really needs to be mentioned. It´s a hotel. That also do surgery. It´s a beautiful place that is made to make you comfortable. And it really does that. After check in, I had a pre-check and was prepared for the surgery the next day. I had my surgery in the afternoon, and everything went well. I spent the next seven days in the clinic to rest and heal, and it was just a beautiful stay and experience, where I was well taken care of by the nurses and all the other friendly staff. Also the food was great, I had no pain, and life really just smiled. On day 5, my best friend came to the clinic and stayed with me. Her stay was included in the price I paid. After checking out from the clinic, I moved into an apartment 5 minute walk from the clinic. I stayed there two more weeks to just relax and continue the healing process. On the last day, I had an appointment with Dr. Labanca to check up on me. Everything looked great and worked as it should, no complications. At the time of this writing, it has been a bit more than two months since my surgery, and I live my daily life more or less as normal. Some new routines of course related to dilating, but that really is no problem. I have just adapted those activities to my life, and it will eventually be a routine that only needs to be done once a week. Also, I still have regular communication and follow-up meetings with Dr. Labanca to check how things are going. That is very good and reassuring, and we will continue to have those meetings for a year. A final note on some important success criteria. Make sure that you are in good physical and mental shape, and also, please follow the instructions you receive from the clinic. So all in all, you are well taken care of through the whole process by a very professional team, the place is beautiful and the surgery result has exceeded my expectations, both in form and function. Highly recommended!

Fantastic experience from start to finish with the clinic. Cannot recommend enough for the exceptional clinical care. Everything was explained and I was made feel at ease which is very important when having facial surgery. For any future surgery, I know where to go. Dr Birbe is an expert in his area, and not all surgeons are created equal. I am very pleased with the pre and post-op care and my recovery will hopefully go as smoothly as the procedure I had.

Aida Masdeu has been the clinical co-ordinator for 3/5 of my gender-affirming operations, and I followed her founding Safe Rebirth for my most recent voice masculinization surgery (Type 3 Thyroplasty). This isn't through having a bad experience with any other co-ordinators, it's just that Aida is so damn good at what she does that after meeting her that I instantly trusted her with the future of my medical transition. If you're reading this and are interested in step-by-step of my Safe Rebirth experience I'll include this below, but please know that Safe Rebirth completely understands that gender-affirming surgeries aren't something clinical to 'just get done', and they don't treat these life-changing procedures as anything mundane (as you'll see a lot in England). Aida and Oscar are legendary-level allies, celebrating trans joy with the community. You can absolutely feel the love in their labour. Thank you so so much to the team for helping me to finally see myself after six years of struggling <3 When you've decided on a surgeon, Aida will liaise with the clinic. My initial consultation was done over Whatsapp with Aida translating if there are any communication barriers. I had my own questions prepped, but she had queries about my welfare and comfortability that I hadn't even thought of. You have the freedom to request a certain month, and they'll get back to you with available dates and payment information. I cannot stress enough that if even if Aida herself isn't nursing you, she WILL take care of you! She would always check in to make sure the clinic were communicating with me fully and transparently, that I was being offered the post-op therapies that I needed and paid for, and how I was feeling counting down towards the operation. She even checked in with me when I landed at the airport and again at the hotel, helping me navigate public transport in cases where I was unsure. I was travelling alone, but even at opposite ends of Spain Aida was making sure I was safe. I booked a hotel that Oscar recommended, and even though I paid for my room I still felt like I was being spoilt. Perfect location to walk to the hospital, the beach, the old town - it was honestly like a holiday. The staff there were also incredibly accommodating when I couldn't speak for the second half of my stay. Oscar gave me some recommendations of things to see tailored to my interests like art galleries and museums, and they were places I wouldn't have found on my own! The pre-op appointment, operation, and post-op recovery? Easy. If it's weird to say the experience has been enjoyable, then maybe I'm a total weirdo. All medical staff I've met in Spain are so friendly, assured, and relaxed - you're really put into good hands with the clinics you're offered. Aida would keep in communication until discharge, again to see you home safely, and now two weeks post-op we're still sharing in the excitement of how my voice is developing. Getting estimates, deciding on where to stay, knowing how to travel, struggling with language barriers, knowing what clinics are trustworthy, feeling anxious or unsure or even scared of what to expect, circumstances of being unable to trust anyone to rely on when going through such vulnerable yet monumental changes - all become non-issues with Safe Rebirth, and it's a service providing such needed compassion along the way too. I've done it on my own, I've done it through other services, but Safe Rebirth ensured that this huge moment in my life was stress-free and a happy experience :)