Haven't posted in forever. I'm not dead, just busy girlbossing it everyday. hrt is magic. #transfem #chastity #hrt #boobs

Injected 0.15 mL (6 mg) of estradiol enanthate into the vastus lateralis muscle in my right thigh 💉🩹

Nice easy one today 🥰

#DIYHRT #HRT #transition #trans #transgender #injection #injections #TransHealthcare

Me: I want to start #hrt
PCP: I'll refer you to Endocrin
Me: I want to start #hrt
Endocrin: We need a letter from a therapist
Me: I want to start #hrt
Therapist: No problem, I'll send a letter to them
Endocrin: *silence for a month*
Me: I want to start #hrt
Endocrin: We don't have a therapist letter yet
Me: :zerotwo_rage:

#trans #transition

Oh huh oops, I almost missed this! :alicehearttrans: #trans #hrt

any band named spiro yet? #trans #hrt #emo #punk

I thought I was going to somehow escape the low-libido, 'shrinkening' phase I saw so many trans women talk about(It seems like most had this phase near the beginning of HRT). I guess not. Lately I just can't figure out what to do with the thing, and its becoming more difficult to dissociate the satisfaction I want out of it when I use it. #hrt #mtf

Injected 0.15 mL (6 mg) of estradiol enanthate into the vastus lateralis muscle in my left thigh 💉🩹

Fairly easy today. Left the needle in long enough & removed slowly to avoid any leakage.

#DIYHRT #HRT #transition #trans #transgender #injection #injections #TransHealthcare

I'm starting to see a correlation between my days of crying jags and the days I change my HRT patch. Is this common? #menopause #hrt

:boost_ok: Okay for real someone out there's gotta know where a bitch can get some 1ml syringes and needles for her HRT injections. I'm fucking tired of going through my pharmacy for this shit. #trans #hrt

BOTTOM GROWTH IS INSANE WTF
its so uncomfortable too, the deep voice and facial hair is so worth it though
but yeah why the hell is it hanging out down there ;-;

#nsfw #testosterone #hrt #transjoy

So I’ve gotten some chest growth lately and I’m so damn hungry. Is this a common thing? Do the girls demand a feast? #trans #HRT

It's my nine-month HRTversary, and looking at my timeline of pics it still feels unreal.

And somehow this is also just getting started? o.O

#HRT #TransitionTimeline

I love rollercoasters, which is why I love estrogen. It’s provided some incredible emotional loop-de-loops today.
#Trans #HRT #TheIncrediCoasterIsTheBestCoasterThough #FightMe

I was on 2mg Estradiol pills for a bit over a month and I had a blood test that showed my levels were very good! Estradiol at 363 pmo/L (very close to 100 pg/mL) and T within the normal female range (I was taking low-dose CPA).

However, my liver wasn't happy so my doctor switched me to, safer, Sandrena gel sachets. I was originally instructed to take half a 1mg sachet every 2 days, but the pharmacist said that was weird and got confirmation that I can take a whole 1mg every 2 days instead.

I later looked online and got conflicting information about equivalent doses for different deliver-E methods. Generally, I think 1mg gel sachet is said to be roughly equivalent to a 2mg pill, but it can vary, and a wiki quote suggests you'd need 3mg to be as effective as a 2mg pill: "Topical estradiol gel at a dosage of 3 mg/day has been reported to be equipotent with 2 mg oral estradiol in terms of therapeutic effects and FSH suppression, as well as to produce similar estradiol levels."

I also found a UK site that specifically listed timing for blood tests, saying it should happen 4-6 hours after taking a pill or applying gel.

A helpful wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacokinetics_of_estradiol) has colourful graphs showing E levels over days/hours after taking it via various routes.

I had my most recent test a bit less than two hours after taking a pill. This may have artificially inflated my level a bit so the 2mg may not have been a sufficient dose for me, but it's difficult to tell because I'm confused by the graphs (or distracted by the colours).

My main concern is that the gel dosage and frequency I am currently taking is not enough, and I just don't know when I should take my blood test for helpful science reasons. If I take it 4-6 hours after application, it'll look high. If I take it 24 hours after (on my off day) it will be very low. (Graphs suggest that levels could be quite low after that time?)

I haven't felt much of anything in the past three weeks on a low dose of gel and I want to make sure I'm working toward a good, consistent level ASAP.

I read somewhere that it's always ethical to manipulate your blood test results if that will help you get the prescription results you want, but I do want to be open with my doctor (I have autism) about my concerns and wanting a higher dose and how I am testing.

I just don't know how long after a once-every-two-days gel application I should get a blood test if I want the data to be useful in my next appointment.

Does anyone with experience with gel and/or HRT blood tests have suggestions?!

(It would be so much easier if patches, with their gradual release and consistent levels over multiple days, weren't in such short supply right now!)

#HRT #Transgender #Trans #Gel #TheminisingHormoneTherapy #GenderFluid #TransMissionFluid

I've seen it mentioned in passing a few time here that starting prog too early might stunt breast growth long-term. Is that true or at least sufficiently probable to worry about it? I've been experimenting with prog for a short while, and I really like being able to sleep.

Please boost for reach.

#HRT

"My style is an intentional mix of things, made to be confusing."

This is how my long document from February started, thinking through the pros and cons of going on #HRT. I'm #NonBinary and I feel uncomfortable thinking people perceive me as a man, so I do a lot to mess with that to feel better about being in public space.

"I'm a non-binary, agender person striving to be a local cryptid."

I could be gender confusing through clothes, but I had often thought about changing my body with hormones, and (limited) surgery and how interesting it could be to biohack my perceived gender.

I knew a lot of people on HRT and I worried that there was an element of not being as cool as them without it, but I don't think this was the case. I would daydream about being in a 'last person on earth' scenario and how I would raid pharmacies so I could alter my body's hormone profile and try it out without having to deal with what other people thought about it. (Just regular person thoughts.)

I also had a lot of chaotic energy around the thought: "You only have one chance in this life to mess with your body as much as possible so take it!"

My biggest fear was breast growth. It's an obvious physical characteristic that can out me, make me unsafe, and I thought it wasn't necessarily something I was aiming for. I thought "if it was something I could switch on and off that would be great", which tells me there was actually a desire, just being held back by fear.

Early on I summarised my HRT goals as wanting "to look, and feel, softer". I also specifically wanted to stop losing more hair, experience emotional expansion, and have softer skin, if possible.

Extremely quickly on HRT (even just on blockers) I got all this. And I want to take it further by upping my dose slightly, and like before I'm casually thinking about more long-term solutions like an orchi (if it wasn't so expensive) and getting E via an implant.

It's complicated in my head right now because there is a strong feeling that things aren't moving fast enough (it's a current hyperfocus and I'm impatient) but also I know I should be thinking about this all more rationally than "I like it when the numbers go up".

Over the past few months I've definitely come to terms with the idea that I am actually looking forward to (at least minimal) breast growth. I look forward to wearing bralettes with open shirts in summer! I like the aesthetic, but also what it means socially, and how it affects my reception by others.

I think what I'm trying to say is that I definitely want to keep going, but I recognise my tendency to obsess over numbers and take things further for the sake of it, losing sight of the meaning. I need to make sure I'm conscious of this.

#TheminisingHormoneTherapy, for me, is a lot more than simply getting good numbers and obsessing over my blood test results.

It's helping me express how i feel inside a bit more clearly to others. It's art.

I have messed up and run out of estrogen for the next week. So a week gap. What can I expect to experience during this gap? #trans #hrt

I had earlier a wee bit darker wording as you're used to read from me. The people who know me a wee bit probably have perceived me as dead shy but otherwise more positive person.

Well the people who know me very well would tell different ans especially the people who had mostly contact pre transition would call me a very negative person.

Being schizoid is connected with an emotional empty feeling and some may call us cold.

#schizoid #hrt

hey, um, is the only way for HRT to work to get injections? I can't do needles. like that's, im getting a bit woozy even typing about it, is there no other way to do it?

#hrt #trans

Bit of a trickier injection today.

I first Injected 0.15 mL (6 mg) of estradiol enanthate into the vastus lateralis muscle in my left thigh, but some of the ester pushed itself out after I removed the needle.

To be safe, I did a further injection of 0.05 mL (2 mg) nearby.

Guess I can't always get a straight-forward injection, but it's still better for me than patches :TransFemHeart:

#DIYHRT #HRT #transition #trans #transgender #injection #injections #TransHealthcare