Out drinking with friends, some guy we met at the bar was fawning over me. Admittedly he was a bit drunk but still, I couldn't quite believe it. I guess this is a thing that's going to happen from now on.
Why can't there be more lesbians where I live :/
I'm on 2 x 0.72 mg patches every two days, plus 50 mg spiro and 100 mg prog every day. That gets me to 268 pg/mL E2 and 58 ng/dL testosterone, last blood test. I'd like to switch to a different anti-androgen though; I'm getting pretty fed up with the effects of spiro.
This is a bit of a cop-out answer, but the effects of HRT vary hugely based on the person. The "relief" you are feeling might be placebo, might be due to biochemical dysphoria, or a bit of both.
When I was on injections, I definitely felt a bit crappy at the end of the week, and a lot better about 30 minutes after my dose.
When I was getting my dose for patches worked out, I felt what I can only describe as "testosterone anxiety", which persisted as I slowly bumped up my dose over a couple of weeks and eventually went away when I got up to three patches. (Now I'm on spiro and back down to two, and things are fine). This was a different feeling to injections wearing off.
Now the only thing I notice is that I get four days of being really tired and removed pretty consistently every 25 days or so. I'm not going to speculate what that is, but since I'm on a very stable dose of two patches every two days, I don't think it's due to dosage.
Yay! It sure does feel good.
Enjoy your new female metabolism :)
Good luck to you. I sincerely hope it goes better than you imagine.
Although I suspect and hope your friends will be accepting. Best wishes!
As others have said, you're not going to notice anything right away. Why not start taking it regularly and let it cook while you focus on other things? A month or so down the road you'll probably realize you feel better than you ever have and don't want to stop.
That's fascinating, thank you!
I mean... it can?
It's pretty awesome, actually.
Yay! Spiro sucks.
Buying nail polish to do furniture repairs because it would be a shame to let the rest go to waste...
/just cis things
Haha, yes that's exactly right!
"Of course I'd love to transition and be a woman, it's just that I'm not trans."
That was also my logic for a looong time.