Hi cutiess,

I started HRT on 9/9/26. From where I live HRT is not readily available nor is recognized.Because of the way the legal system work here, HRT is only avaliable for menopausal women.

I was able to find this doctor who specializes in transgender health. I’m not sure if he is a proper endocrinologist though. He prescribes me with 10mg of Estradiol Valerate Injection per 5 days and 50mg of Sprino Acetate (Androcur) daily which equates to 2mg of E daily and 50mg of Anti Androgen daily

I’m traveling to Thailand in 24 hours in order to get a proper endocrinologist. Do you think 2mg of E injections and 50mg of AA daily is too little starting out? Should I talk to my endocrinologist about my current HRT regimen maybe ask for an increase in dose or should I get a blood test for my hormones and see what it’s like at the trough level?

Thank you all💕

Is having less variation between peaks and troughs and keeping things as flat as possible improve your mental health?

I am in week 6 of HRT now and I recently started to notice that my nipples are VERY sensitive. I have been expecting the "painful" breast period that many describe having, as the bud grows. However, I don't recall anyone discussing just how sensitive my nipples would get. I am talking VERY arousing kind of sensitive. I can't stop touching them and even my tops moving over them, is driving me wild. Is this normal or is it in my head? I don't mind it, but it can be a bit distracting, especially at work.

Im going to start on Prostium Gel E 0.06% w/v, as starters how should i go on about it, i have applied for lab tests for testosterone levels, soon ill get results, Can anyone help me how do i get started?

Has anyone done the same? DIY?

I've been apprehensive on using HRT for a while and one of the major concerns I have with it is the penis shrinkage.

So, I've been "cursed" with a micro penis. It's not the smallest in the world or anything, but absolutely below average. I really want bottom surgery in the future, but I'm worried that my penis will shrink too much on HRT to have a successful reassignment. I'm still not heavily educated on HRT and bottom surgery, I just hope im not cooked 🙏

Hiii, i have a questiom about body hair.

I'm still pre hrt, waiting for public med and i want to know about how really affects to body hair, specially the one in the chest area, i do grow hair there and for what I know wouldnt stop on hrt, just gets thinner and slow grow. Theres any chance yo not geow hair there after hrt? Would i have to razoe there always? Thanks

Hey everyone!

So today I sent my endocrinologist my blood work results, and she prescribed me 1mg oral estradiol a day. No spironolactone at all. She also wants my next check up to be in six months. So six months with just 1mg daily estradiol. Now, from what I've read, it's usually three months between check ups on the first year, or something like that, right? I'm very tempted to send her an email on Monday asking about these topics, maybe up the dose to 2mg? I know on the appointment I had with her this past Thursday she commented on how she usually prescribes up to 4mg later on, which I also think is kind of low?

Now, were it up to me I'd maybe try and switch doctors, but I'm not out to my dad. And I'm on his insurance plan, turns out blood works are really fucking expensive without insurance, so that's the bottleneck right now. What should I do?

1 week in and chest has been feeling tightish or ache but not around the nipples. More like in between heart burn and when you are sore from doing pecks at the gym… been a few days with it seems to be on both sides then sometimes only notice it on one side or the other. 5mg EC injection

Anyone have something similar?

For those of you who use estradiol cypionate, what’s your dose and frequency?

starting spiro + E in 2 weeks and everyone keeps joking about spiro making you live in the bathroom lol 🚻 is it really that bad?? any tips for dealing with it? 😭

What does hrt do to testicles? What are changes? I saw somewhere that the texture/ smell of it will change. Will only the size change or will anything else change? I couldn't really find any useful info online about this. I want to know the changes that will happen physically and changes in sensation.

Addition question:
What is the so called libido and i read somewhere it changes? How and what may it?

Title. How should I adjust to get to monotherapy levels (300 pg/mL). I dont have T levels unfortunately even though I specifically asked for it and they told me they were testing for it.

hello everyone!! i ran into a snag a few months ago where i was concerned that my hrt got messed up. I take estradiol pills sublingually, and right after i got my refill (i get three months at a time) i left them in a room that didn’t have AC during a heat wave, so they stayed at over ninety degrees for around ten hours. i noticed after that that the pills developed a noticeable smell, almost akin to rotten eggs, but i wasn’t sure if i was just being anxious and reading too much into it.

well i finally got my refill but i feel like my fears were confirmed when my new batch not only didn’t have that smell, but were a much brighter blue. it was the same brand, same shape, color, markings, etc. it was just like it had faded. so after i beat myself up for wasting about three months worth of time I’ve been happy having pills that I know are working again.

except here recently I noticed the smell coming back, an almost sweet smell, like vanilla or cake batter, and it’s only grown stronger. and I ended up comparing them side by side again and they’re the exact same color. I’m not really sure what to do or what I could’ve done wrong, if i did anything wrong at all. I’ve made a point to keep them in a dark space and never let my room get that hot again. there’s absolutely nothing that could’ve triggered any sort of change. they stay in the dark in my bedside table, and I always keep my room cold.

so i’m just kinda at a loss. am I just in my own head about it, or did something cause these pills to degrade? I’m ten months in and I feel like I haven’t really had any changes or progress (my levels were good last i checked, but this was before my pills went bad before.) I just wanted to try here and see if anyone had any advice or if I’m just going crazy and reading too much into things.

Ever since reading that it can happen with low t levels I’ve been insanely stressed about having high DHT levels since I do diy and I CANNOT afford another blocker to block DHT, so I guess if I did have high I would be a transition fraud:(,
My latest tests for blood was 2 weeks ago and I had
t: 1.23 nmol/l
LH and FSH: under 0.3 U/l
However I’m still super worried about DHT since I do catch millisecond whiffs of male body odor when I do stuff but when I smell myself and my armpits it smells like my perfume/deodorant or just smells insanely weakly if I don’t have those things on. Also the longer I inspect my body hair the thicker it seems to appear as each second passes. Is there actually a way for my body to make DHT when my t is suppressed and I’m not on prog yet?

hello! helping out my niece in FL who wants to start HRT. anyone out there have input on the quality of the online services such as Folx, Plume etc.? are they worth it? are there alternatives for someone living in quasi rural FL?

So I take 6 mg E, 100 progesterone oral, and 50 mg spiro (was on 100 recently dropped to 50)

4 e mg swallow 50 spiro 5 am, 2 mg swallow 3 pm, 100 progesterone 9pm.

Levels 180 E, 30 T. T suppression maybe less now because it was tested at the 100 level and these level were taken at 2 pm.

Is this stable ? Good? Sometimes I add a sublingual day, but was thinking of sublingual three times a day instead.

My results are okay. It’s been 11 months.

So I've been on oral Estrogen (monotherapy) since last December. Started at 2mg 12/25, upped to 4 mg 2/26, 6mg 4/26 and 8mg 8/26.

2/26 my E was 74 PG/ml, T was 420 ng/dl

4/26 my E was 150 PG/ml, doc didn't order T 😑 said it wasn't necessary to know every time. I asked for it every time after that.

6/26 my E was 192 PG/ml, T was 198 ng/dl

And then 10/26 E shot up to 405 PG/ml, T tanked to 50 ng/dl

All the blood levels were taken before upping the E dose. All the tests were taken at the same time of day, same amount of time from my last dose of E.

My doc said previously when I was at 192 PG/ml of E that I could up the dose to try and further suppress T if I wanted to (I would prefer to avoid a T blocker). She said as long as my E is between 200-400 pg/ml that's fine. It's only when it's over 400 that it's problematic.

So two questions I guess:

1) conventional internet and reddit wisdom says 200 pg/ml is target. I've never heard of the 200-400 range thing before. Anyone have any insight? Truthfully I didn't expect my E to double like that, I thought it might increase by like 50-75 PG/ml and stay closer to 200

2) What the french happened that when I last increased my dose by 2mg it doubled my E level and reduced my T level by 75%?

TLDR: I am on gel and had a longer than usual time between applications yesterday. I am wondering if it might have caused a mental breakdown.

Hello y'all, I have been on E gel for 2 weeks now spread twice a day, one in the morning and one before bed.

Yesterday I woke up early so I applied it around 8:30 and went to an event in the evening. It lasted a while and I ended up grabbing food and talking with a friend after so I only got home at around 3:00 so I went about 20hrs between my 2 doses.

During the evening I started being emotionally unstable. I was having a great time but the tiniest of details would make me breakdown :/

My question is whether you think this could have been from taking too long between applications?

ok, i guess im writing this to ask a question that realistically i know the answer to.

long story short, ive been transitioning for a little over a year using estradiol valerate injections and progesterone.

last night was injection day and i drew up the last bit of medicine of one of my vials into my syringe. i noticed it was low, and without thinking i opened a new vial and stuck the *same syringe* in to draw up the rest of my meds. i pulled slightly extra and then squee the excess into the vial.

as soon as i did it i realized i fucked up. transferring meds from one vial to the other is like a biiiggggg no no and i am scared i just wasted a fresh new vial. i feel so stupid and anxious now that i’m down one vial in a conservative state. i need to check when i can refill my prescription.

should i just throw the vial away and cut my losses? that’s what im leaning towards.

I posted a "vent" post in another forum recently, but it's starting to become an issue. I may need actual advice.

I am 45. Been on HRT just over a year now. (That egg had a dummy thicc shell, y'all.) Happy with my progress so far. I'm in my second week of prog now (100 mg oral daily). Hoping for some of the boob rounding-out effects some people report. As can happen for those of us starting HRT late in life, my boobs do face outward a bit. Glad to have them at all! But having them fill out in the middle a little would be welcome. But hey, we get what we get!

And sure enough, since starting prog, I've felt the tenderness and aching that tends to happen when I'm in a growth phase. Maybe that's the prog, maybe I was just due for growth. They've been awfully sensitive, though.

The thing is, I don't know if it's the prog or some recent life stress or what, but I have been bursting into tears or occasionally just having mini freakouts over things that should be minor annoyances. And the brain fog is getting pretty bad. I've always had to fight my ADHD - finding workarounds, figuring out tricks to improve my focus when I needed to, etc. But lately it's just been like trying to run in beach sand, you know? A lot more effort to keep up the same pace.

It's not out of control or anything. It hasn't gotten in the way of work or caused any problems at home. But dang, it's making getting through the day a bit harder. I just feel like I'm having a lot more trouble regulating my emotions and concentrating.

And that's something that going on E actually helped for me. I mean, I have been more able to cry in general on E, but overall, I have felt more in control of myself than before I started. Maybe that was the T to E switch or maybe it was just the relief of finally doing something I knew I needed to do. But either way, this has been rough.

Do I just need to wait this out and give myself time to adjust to a new hormone. Am I just going through another weird puberty thing or something?

Oh, and speaking of puberty... That other prog side effect is apparently a thing for me, at least. Without letting this get into NSFW territory, yes, I'm also getting weirdly horny now. If I'm honest, that part isn't the worst thing. Maybe a little distracting, but...

Well, that's the thing! I'm basically sad or horny or overwhelmed or foggy-brained or some combination of the four pretty much all the time and being trans is hard sometimes!

OK. Real talk: Is this the prog? I really, really want to give prog a fair shake. I've been looking forward to trying it for a while. Glad my insurance is playing ball. My doc and I were both comfortable giving it a try at the one year mark. I'll definitely message my doc if things actually become a serious problem.

And if anyone has any advice or experience on adjusting to progesterone, please lay it on me!

Hello! I've been nearly 3 years in E, first 2 and a half were inyections and now I switched to pills.

I'm currently on 2mg e pills twice a day and 50mg espiro twice a day (4mg e and 100mg espiro in total)

So, my main question here is, what time should I take my bloodwork? When I was doing inyections it was right before my next dose, is it the same when taking pills? Thanks! Have a good day

Been noticing the lymph nodes in my neck have been tender to the touch, despite not being sick. Wondering if it's a common side effect of fluid retention (like breast tenderness) or not.

Anyone else experience this? I inject 0.1mL of EEn (40mg bottle concentration) weekly.

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Hi, i received my blood test results after approximately one month of HRT via gel applied scrotally, 4mg per day (2mg every 12 or so hours). This was taken on 9th october right after my first morning dose of the day, and i started hrt on 12th of september. Should I increase my dosage? Because these levels don't look good.

Value Unit Min Max

E 241 pmol/L 43.3 146

T 7.5 nmol/L 5.72 26.1

What will be affected, what physical things will change? Will height be affected?
Will it affect your mental state? Will it make you experience things differently? Will it make some body parts feel different? How may it change your face/body shape? Are there any ways to roughly estimate what about your face may change?

okay first off i want to say thanks for the support on my last post, since then ive managed to get hrt and have been on it for about 2 months now. its been going great but the last few days ive been getting extremely anxious. my breast buds are seemingly forming and they’re very sore and since that started happening ive been getting more and more scared of what will happen in the future. i have no idea what my parents will think so i dont know how to come out, and im scared that if i need to i wont be able to hide it from them. im also really scared im having doubts if i should be doing this. ive been thinking about it for ages but im suddenly having thoughts im some sort of fraud or i dont really want this while also feeling like i do. im also really scared for what my future will look like even if i know im a girl actually becoming one is a little scary. is this normal? any advice is greatly appreciated

ps i didn’t re-read this so it may be terribly written and i apologize if thats the case