Yesterday, my body welcomed the estrogen into her realm by giving me a migraine. I've had ocular migraines for years, but this was the first splitting headache migraine I've had. So... that was a thing.
I've developed this bizarre obsession with broth. I'll just pour packaged beef broth into a bowl, add some spices, heat it up and eat it. Is this some kind of #HRT thing? 😂
For reasons, my legal name is not the same as my real name. During that customer service call, I was repeatedly misgendered by the representative. Even after correcting her twice, she still did it a third time.
I got quite insistent that time, and told her that if it happened again, I would be talking to her supervisor. Now, I am really not a confrontational person, at all.
Avoiding confrontation is a trait common among autistic people. But at this point I was getting really annoyed. She could obviously tell, and stopped with the "sir" this and "sir" that for the rest of the call.
As you will see from the blog post, I am overall disappointed by the outcome, but willing to admit that part was not her fault.
Is it typically when ones low on E energy levels drop quite hard?
My implants where due about a week ago but been trying to work another doc to do them.
So I am likely lower than normally and I feel so fucking tired and terrible... This is expected? I guess there isn't much I can do until I get things going again?
You've probably heard from transphobes about how "you can't change your DNA," so nothing you do in transition really matters. "Basic biology," they whinge. Well... what about intermediate biology?
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, come and see How HRT Rewrites Your DNA by just plain turning off the parts you don't need and turning on the ones you do! Now with more wedding photos, from another queer wedding.
#Srbija je toliko ozbiljno shvatila borbu protiv nasilja, da je #HRT produkcija prva (i do sada jedina) koja je snimila dokumentarnu emisiju na temu masakra u Ribnikaru.
Stephen (@trans.voice) has created a series of great informative videos that go through the different aspects of an individual’s voice and some of the changes that can occur when transitioning and taking different hormones.
The bridge of my nose has narrowed and I cannot stop touching it. Like it’s hardly noticeable visually but it feels completely different. Surreal. #hrt
Just got my latest bloodwork results and am just incredibly frustrated >.< After injecting 4 mg of Estradiol Enanthate into my thigh muscles once a week for a month, my estradiol levels come down to...
35 pg/ml, aka perfectly average cis male levels. Not even slightly elevated. When, according to the calculator over at transfemscience.org, it should hover around the 250 pg/ml mark.
Having a rough time with #HRT meds. Who’d be female eh? Gift that keeps giving, I’ve not been one of the lucky ones throughout my years. Can’t wait till it’s all over and done with. Guess I’ll be an insomniac then though!
Warum nutzen eigentlich so viele Endos die #HRT anbieten den Begriff "Transidentiät"? Was ist aus "transgender" geworden? Ich sehe sonst den Begriff vor Allem in der Nutzung von #TERF/#FART die mit "transidenter Mann" eine trans* Frau bezeichnen würden...
Yesterday was my three year HRT-Versary. The drugs have changed very dramatically from what is pictured but that's where I started 3 years ago, 3 years after coming out. It took blood, tears and getting through gatekeeping to get there. The middle is a recent-ish picture of me. The other my first day HRT pic. I look like beat and hammered sh*t today, it's been a long week so you get a one month old picture.
It was also my one year anniversary of taking and passing the LiD-Leben in Deutschland. Basically a knowledge of the country, past, culture and politics. Sehr guter Erfolg like an A+ in America speak. I was convinced I failed X.X.
I’ve got a hormone levels question. I’m on injectable E (weekly subQ) and my mid-week level is 572 pg/mL. (Endo insists on testing midweek 🤷♀️)
Endo says this is too high/risky, wants to lower dose. I say “bah! I feel great and like what’s happening!” I had upped my dose slightly to stop feeling like unaliving myself and it worked.
In honor of 9 months of feminizing #HRT I am sharing photos of the dangers of taking powerful psychoactive substances like Estrogen, which can also affect your body. Here’s a comparison of what I used to look like and what I look like now. You have been warned! #trans#transtimeline
Today I grabbed a guest labcoat and it smelled like testosterone sweat, and it got me wondering again whether everyone finds that smell unpleasant or whether it's just because I'm a lesbian. I don't mean old unwashed sweat, I mean the smell of fresh sweat that testosterone based bodies generate. I was always confused by romantic bits in books where it went "he smelled of pine and woodsmoke and clean sweat" and that always confused me because to me one of those smells was not nice like the others
And older trans women warned me prior to HRT
"Don't be alarmed if you start noticing the smell of men and find it attractive."
"It shouldn't be an issue. I've never dated guys but I'm not adverse to the try and see. I mean hell if David Bowie wanted to sleep with me I'd say yes. But then again that's David Bowie."
Fast forward 3ish months into HRT.
I'm coming out of support group.
And, I notice this, this smell...
It gets stronger as a dude approaches
And I damn near vomited.
Possibly being bisexual ended right there.
I can't stand being in the same room as several guys for long because the smell is pungent
A mis amigos de Madrid (o cualquier lugar en España): ¿sabéis algo sobre empezar con TRH/HRT aqui? Todavia no puedo descubrir de donde, o de quien.
English version: does anybody know how I could get started with feminising HRT in Madrid?
I've found a bunch of resources about how HRT works, and about various surgeons. Nothing about how I might start getting the hormones themselves.
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.