Iām 23 days into HRT and my boobs hurt and I can feel the weight and I will feel randomly euphoric
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when I saw this I was pre-hrt. I searched it down now that I am 28 days on hrt.
ā¦yeah.
my cat crawled on my belly and stepped on one and I felt my soul leave my body. Good news is I have the genetics for MASSIVE honkers. Bad news is I have the genetics for MASSIVE honkers. They already bounce when going down stairs less than a month in lol
Congrats on the fat redistribution
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Oh, I can confirm this! I went from skipping lunch almost every day to essentially never completely full. And if I skip a meal I become basically useless. Itās great!
Also congrats on already feeling weight after 23 days! My own started aching pretty much immediately (hurt for a few days), but itās gotten more annoying recently and I can actually feel/see 'em now (I hit 100 days exactly today actually!)
How do you feel? Did you already get the skin smoothing? That was the biggest QoL change for me
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Your version is better
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Now youāre sharing it in blahaj.zone, not basketball.court
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My boobs h
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the basketball version of the shitty crop is better imo (maybe because āmy boobs hurtā is lost as context)
EDIT: but between the original and āboobs hurtā version, I choose the latter
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good point
Iām 7 weeks in to HRT and have no changes yet. How? How do you already have this feeling? Iām glad youāre euphoric. Iām just jealous.
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Oh, Iāve been in the closet for 11 years. Iāve had a LONG time to do my research. The problem is that the clinic Iām seeing is being overly cautious, and I donāt want to end-run them to DIY because I need them for lots of other things, some related and some not. They put me on 50mg spironolactone, which I guess did the job. Almost. T is at 70ng/dl. Since Iām in the US, cypro isnāt an option and the clinic is paranoid and told me they wonāt prescribe anything with a side effect of ādeathā listed, even though you and I both know thatās infinitesimally small a chance and bigger for cis-women than us. So that means no bicalutamide.
Iām also unfortunately on 4mg oral estradiol tablets. They donāt want to make ANY changes until the 3 month mark, so my E2 is sitting at 70pg/ml. The clinic seems happy with this. Iām beside myself at how low it is. I have asked to move to intramuscular estradiol valerate at monotherapy dosages, but they keep pushing back. My age likely doesnāt help, though. Iām over the hill. And fairly lean, since I run marathons and cycle centuries. So there isnāt a lot of fat to redistribute, but I should still feel the pain and sensitivity. Itās frustrating.
honestly, spiro is an awful medication that should be totally unacceptable as an anti androgen. On top of that, I was able to get planned parenthood to prescribe injection monotherapy, and theyāre much cheaper and quicker to work with than most other places. 70 ng/dl is way too high, to the point that youāre probably getting the worst of both worlds. Iād find new doctors if I were you.
Is spiro really that bad?
I get that itās the least effective among the choices but it also has the fewest side-effects, from my understandingā¦
Something to bring up w/ my doctor, I guessā¦ Iāve been trying to reach them for a dosage increase anyway
fewest? it makes you constantly dehydrated and puts strain on your kidneys. My advice as someone who wasted 15 months getting fucked around by useless doctors is to plan your healthcare without them, and do whatever it takes to get doctors who will help you. You really cannot rely on them.
Iām on a really low dosage of spiro (25mg/day), so that might be why I havenāt felt it as badly.
But yeah, thatās basically what I did. My doctor is actually pretty okay (didnāt mind that I didnāt have the psychiatric diagnosis that youāre āsupposedā to have (not a legal requirement)), but she definitely did underdose me, and I am awful at making appointments, so Iāve just increased my own dosage of E in line with whatās actually a reasonable amount.
thatās good, but those t levels really donāt need to be so high. thatās the benefit of monotherapy is that no anti androgen is necessary
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I was 3 months in before I realized something was definitely happening in that department. I started suddenly noticing every time I accidentally bumped the area with my arm etc. and the skin started feeling different.
2 weeks and I already had it. I suppose Iām speedrunning itā¦
