She injected estrogen and you won't believe what happened next!!!
| nah my shot is tmr
good job with the injection
since this isn't an ama thread: how do you feel hades 2 impacts the hades franchise? is it a generally positive development?
| >>1114798 happy to ama just forgor to put in the post
You may crucify me for this but I've played neither of them, so no opinion
| It's the 30th today.
| I just take pills, idk I been thinking of doing sublingual but is it really better?
| If I was president, I'd give HRT access to everyone that needs it, for free, paid by the state with yummy and well used taxes
| >>1114832 Idk but it's the only option here so there's that
Pills have to go through the liver so that may make them less effective?
Sublingual is supposed to deliver them right to your bloodstream or something
| >>1114839 I believe sublingual results in quicker absorbtion so a shorter effective half-life, but is also more effective at delivering E itself because first pass as mentioned
The main benefit to injections is most people can do monotherapy because most t-blockers have not great side effects (if you experience them)
Exception is the gnrh agonists that are used as puberty blockers but for some reason they won't give to adults despite them being better overall :/
| I'm kinda curious what country you're in where pills are the only option if you don't mind answering
In the US a lot of Drs don't like to prescribe things other than pills but other options are totally available
| >>1114862
Uruguay
For some reason there seems to be no injectables, at least I haven't found them yet.
| Hooray : D I love tuesdays, even if my online was broken!
| Mein online bist kaputt!!!
| >>1114872 oh I see
I think you might be able to get gel or patches from a curiosity search?
Not sure honestly, I know patches are very in demand RN so they might not be consistently available, and IDK the effectiveness of gels
Doing sublingual pills might be your best option girl
| >>1114869 what ester are you on that you do monthly? I assume in the butt means you're having a nurse or someone else do your injection for you since that's kinda awkward for self Injections
| >>1114902 yeah I can get gel, but the pills are a lot cheaper too
I figured sublingual must be the way jsj
Thanks girl
| Bleh gonna have to text a family member and ask them to quit using my deadname tonight :/
If only I felt connected to my gender neutral deadname literally ever so I could have just not changed it
| I don't think it's like intentionally hostile just 0 clue about why that's a bad thing, I just kinda wish I didn't have to teach most of my family this stuff
| :( I’m sorry g/u/rl. I have a trans fem (I wrote trans woman first but I think trans fem is nicer and less intimidating) in my family who is really nice and safe. Do you have some nice family members who help you feel relaxed? I hope this one doesn’t take it too hard :< and I hope you’re feeling ok
| Uhh not really but I will be okay, this family member is fortunately genuinely trying to be respectful etc just knows very little about anything queer so it should be alright
I've been pretty drained this week but things will be fine once I get a chance to recover
| Ok good :) I’m sorry if I stressed you. I really like your threads but I struggle sometimes to say the right things.
| They replied with only an "Okay" but gave me a call later and excitedly said "Hi (name) how are you doing!" So things went well \o/
| my butt itches
| <3 thanks for reassuring me. You’re very kind and I feel better:)
Yay! That’s really good of them, and good of you to do it too.
| I feel estrogen made me a lot more chill and extroverted
I can recognize fragments of the person I was before lost in my flesh, but everything feels and plays so different it's hard to compare this new me to the old one.
Is this a normal thing that just happens?
| I’ve heard this before. Some claim it’s that they were just suffering from running on the wrong hormones, some claim it’s from dysphoria lifting, some claim it’s a direct effect of estrogen. What I think: it’s some of the first two, but probably a dose dependent direct biological effect of estrogen on neural activity, which fades if you go off it.
| I say this because estrogen later in life isn’t supposed to change brain organization, it changes relative activity (sort of like how it doesn’t change the skeleton but changes fat distribution)
| nothing is real
| >>1115303 I believe that's a pretty common genre of thought and yeah basically what the first half of>>1115307 said
It's often described/felt in different ways but as with most things it's really individual
I'm sorta an outlier here due to prolonged depersonalization and isolation on top of it all pre hrt so I was sorta rebuilding a personality from scratch within the few years before and I feel more or less like a version of that who's not held back by something
| >>1115310
I can't say I know enough about the pharmacokinetics or neurochemistry to agree or disagree on E alone
But I do want to add that progesterone is at least somewhat common and I know it turns into neursteroids and stuff in the liver which definitely makes a noticeable difference mentally at least for me
E also changes gene expression and lots of other stuff so it's possible it's a downstream effect
But truthfully I think it's a mix of everything in personal amounts
| Placebo being as strong as it is definitely makes things harder to isolate in that area though, I know I felt euphoric, and better overall, after I did my first injection despite my E not suppressing my T properly until I increased dose and obviously directly after an injection very little of the ester would have been broken down into usable E
| E is really cool
| One theory I thought was interesting was that the beneficial mental effects of high testosterone are through it turning into estrogen, since estrogen acts on the brain so much. That’s also true about prog. I believe (maybe) it’s the same process which happens to DHT, and that’s why there’s fear about prescribing DHT blocker to people with a history of suicide, because blocking DHT blocks production of these positive neurosteroids.
| I liked that last sentence particularly about not being held back by something. It’s really beautiful g/u/rl :>
| >>1115347 >high testosterone are through it turning into estrogen
Damn gurl, for me, it only made me hypersexual and really dumb
But that may also be related to me being trans and all, I lived mostly in my head back then. I feel like I'm living in the real world now that I'm taking E
| E is MDMA + amphetamine though
| Im at the endo about to ask for raloxifene
Wish me luck girls
| Luck luck luck luck luck!!!!
| Good luck gurlie
| Well he didn't want to prescribe me raloxifene, I guess I'm growing boobs now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
| I hope you are at least okay with that it's awful when a Dr decides your body for you
I've not heard very much good about endos in general unfortunately :/
| Eh im okay with it, Im curious what my size will be anyway
If anything boymoding may get harder with time, but I can manage with the right clothes
| Glad to hear that at least *hugs*
| Tonight's shot was average, slightly distracted by my cat deciding to attack my leg right before I stabbed myself but no pain drop of blood
Posting here instead of a new thread because it survived a week! Woohoo
| I have a habit of bouncing a leg so it could be that or she was just in a mood, either way I had to put the needle down and convince her to play in a box first lol
| That’s adorable:>
| Annoying more like.
| nice
| i have a habit of bouncing on legs
| She's cute I can't be mad at her
| She's mad and I can't be cute with her
| She’s I’m her
| I'm she/her
| Dayum girl are your pronouns her/she cuz I want to give you a kiss
Sorry
| Not beating the aligations... Women pretty (*﹏*)
| Snails make decisions on 2 braincells
Just like horny men
| This is why chuds drive around in big lifted up pickup trucks during the winter spraying salt behind them to kill snails so women have you choose them ;(
| We need to invent a salt you can sprinkle on men and have them shrivel up and have to run away or they'll die
| trans need to die
| check it out im in the thread
like car pet
| Snailstrogen
| >>1115835 hmmm I guess I'll spare some just for you but they have to behave or they'll get the salt
| You’re so dreamy!!!!!! (^｡^)
| Take your medss
| *I'm not going to horny post* *I'm not going to horny post* *I'm not going to horny post* *I'm not going to horny post* *I'm not going to horny post*
| She jumped off the saint johns bridge? (I used her correct pronouns please clap)
| >>1115926
Would recommend, even besides the horny it's helped my mental health a lot
I'll also note your levels definitely effect horny a lot too, I don't think I had much horny at all until E was over 100 pg/ml or something so even if you can't get prog from your Dr you might still get some horny back
| >>1115921
I won't horny post, but I do have to complain about being unable to hit an O for three days now
Ssri + stress will do that I'm afraid but like shjsjsjwhshhdhdjjsjshwh you know?
| Since we're getting close to Tuesday I must ask for opinions on opening a new thread or keeping this one going for a third week?
| I like ur cute titles on new threads ✌︎('ω')✌︎
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| I think I'm out of amusing titles
Injection was good no blood no pain
This week was kinda long, feels like I robbed spoons from next week to pay for what I had to do this week
Hope you're all doing well and taking your estrogen