Previous >>40915408• Help, advice, guidance on meds and dosages• HRT related medical experiences and research• Availability and pricing of medications• Rational and scientific discussionSee following post for a pharmacy list.Survey: https://1drv.ms/xs/s!AudRJceTA5C9c2G5lCV2Avq0kQ0▶ Survey data: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AudRJceTA5C9cyIWo6_X14AvHyM▶ HRTGen Data Analysis: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AudRJceTA5C9gRLLWnbpdzlIxe4r▶ HRT Info Sheets: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AudRJceTA5C9gQnyM7wxZcBGWRzW▶ Pill ID: https://www.drugs.com/imprints.php▶ DrugBank: https://www.drugbank.com/▶ Basic HRT: https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/assets/hormones_MTF.pdf▶ HRT ranges: https://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/hrt_ref.htm▶ Powers Method: https://powersfamilymedicine.com/s/Healthcare-of-the-Transgender-Patient-V60.pptx▶ Endocrine Society Guidelines: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/11/3869/4157558▶ Transline Guidelines (with bicalutamide): https://transline.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/360047702053/TransLine_HRT_Guidelines_FINAL.pdf▶ WPATH SOC: https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc▶ TransDIY: https://www.reddit.com/r/transDIY▶ Blood tests (US): https://www.privatemdlabs.com/, https://www.labsmd.com/▶ Blood tests (UK, Ireland): https://www.medichecks.com/▶ Blood tests (Canada Only): https://bloodtestscanada.com/▶ Blood tests (Sweden): https://werlabs.se/▶ Blood tests by mail: https://www.letsgetchecked.com/ DIY capillary blood samples. Expensive.▶ Lab test guide: https://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu
▶https://diyhrt.market/ - general HRT marketplace directory▶https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/t-shipping.aspx- Has been popular in the US. Ships from Vanuatu to some countries.▶euaibolitatgmaildotcom - Ships from EU to Worldwide.▶https://unitedpharmacies-uk.md/(UK only) - Ships from HK.▶https://unitedpharmacies.md/(US only) - Ships from HK.▶https://alldaychemist.com/- Ships from India to some countries.▶https://shape-shifter.webnode.page/- Ships from Turkey to Worldwide.▶https://stayhealthynow.co/- Ships from Turkey to Worldwide▶https://amazing4health.com/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.▶https://favskinhouse.com/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.▶https://goodstuffstore.net/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.▶https://otc-online-store.com/- Ships from Russia to Worldwide.▶https://www.weborderpharmacy.md/(US only) - Ships from India.▶https://www.weborderpharmacy-uk.md/(UK only) - Ships from India▶https://opengatelabs.com/ - Ships from US
god last one got archived with 4 replies its so over lol
>>40918489I replied to the thread and someone else replied and I think it got buried. Maybe /lgbt/ got some more activity than usual is my guess.
>>40918571yeah but people dont even try to keep this important thread alivei used to bump this thread every time it was close to get archived but i got a 3 day ban once bc of that someone reported me for spam so i stopped doing that often :/
>>40918442My weekly dosage is 6mg E cypioAnd I take 120mg of regugolix daily So far I’ve been shedding my weak hair sadly so it’s been dysphoric for meCpa caused me liver pain same with bica
>>40918646Surprises me people don't keep it up that often. Other generals seem to have a thread up almost in perpetuity, but this one stays for some time sometimes, just stays gone for lots of time, with the number of replies it gets, I wonder why so few bother to bring it back up once it's down.>>40918675Seems about good to me at a glance. Got blood tests in at your trough yet?
should i have told my physician i plan on starting hrt soon?or should i just come back with tits in a year
on 4mg E with bica at 14 months hrt. my last levels were 207pg/ml but i feel like my progress has slowed. is this a good dosage?
>>40919019You could just message them on your patient portal or whatever you have, couldn't you?
>>40918442just started pio today im underweight as fuck (8% bf) so im bulking i would like to thank everyone receiving gender affirming care in /hrtgen/ and /fraudgen/ for B.E.ing yourself, as well as india for their unregulated pharmeceutical market
HRTCafe says >The ideal range is 150-250 pg/ml of estradiol when blood is taken right before the next dose (this is to get numbers when your estradiol levels are the lowest)I won’t have access to blood tests. Since I won’t be able to exactly know if my levels would be as high as they’d need to be, would it be a good idea for me to overshoot a little by following a routine like picrel where my pg/ml would be expected to be 300?
>>40918442O9A recruitment thread
I'm doing DIY HRT since June. I feel so good, I started on a small hondose but I've been going with 200mg spiro and 10mg estradiol sublingual since July and I'm seeing and feeling the changes. What else should I be taking? I read that you should be steady on E like this for 2-3 years and saturate your body with E before taking whatsitsname that feminizes your fat deposits and makes you curvy and all.
page 9 bump
If I'm taking 50mg spironolactone, and I have 25mg pills, is it better to take twice at once or space them out?
>>40923061every 12 hours is better bc of spiro half life
nobody told me about the injection lumps how do i get rid of them and avoiding them, got a large one on my tummy and its stressing the shit out of me. some other trannies said they are normal and caused by poor technique. please help
>>40922302Hellooooo
>>40925290lipohypertrophy? if so i think you should stop injecting in that area and moving to another place (ive seen people recommending upper booty area bc if that ever happens again you can hide with clothes easily) and hoping it goes away after some months without injecting there
>>40925391i dont think u should be taking anything else? also 10mg estradiol sublingual isnt enough for T supression without antiandrogen? anyway i think you should take blood tests to see your levels bc thats a high dosage for just 4mo of hrt
>>40925411Someone told me to stop hondosing and I read about a Brazilian femboy on plebbit who did 10mg sublingual and said he fucked his cousin who didn't recognise him at all, so I made that my baseline.Also, isn't the spiro acting as an antiandrogen?
>>40925393thanks, but i want to avoid injecting in the buttocks cause its actually dangerous to hit the sciatic nerve, i will try the front thighs
>>40925477im esl so sorry i was trying to say that 10mg sublingual is probably high enough to supress your testosterone without having the need to take an antiandrogen
>>40925488I think that's a good idea. I think with injections you just don't want to inject the same place multiple times in a row. Maybe try having different injection sites you rotate through?
>>40918442would there be any real benefit from combining bica and an actual t suppressant. i have unironic high blood pressure anyway and spiro didnt ruin my brain when i was on it
ive been super irritable lately and started prog 1 month ago, does anyone know if it could be causing that?
>>40918442bump
hello hrtgenI'm a cis male and I'm trying to get my face and hair to look more feminine thus I have a few questions. 1. what dosage of what hormones should I take?2. do I need any blood tests or anything else prior to taking it?3. if possible, what's the best alternative to injections?4. if I'm taking a low dosage will I still grow some breasts and get some fat redistribution?( I don't want boobs)5. I want to workout to get more muscles so will this affect the hormones in anyway?
Also, will hormones make me lose face fat?
>>40930271Ideally, if you're taking HRT long term, you'd want to take a blood test to see your baseline before starting HRT, and take tests every few months to monitor your levels.However, you said you don't want to grow breasts. Breasts are like one of the first things that happen, even though it just starts with your nipples getting puffy. It is going to happen if you take HRT, and if you take it for years they might not even be concealable anymore.And yeah, HRT makes it harder to build muscle, as hard as it is cis women, at least after some time on it.Hormones will, if anything, make you gain face fat.
>>40930646Where can I do said blood test? And will they question anything if my e levels rise?what about ppl like hrtwinks or femboys? They seem to have relatively small breasts, plus if I'm taking a low dosage it won't grow so much right?
>>40925290If they're red and itchy then it's a skin reaction. Switching to IM will solve it, and it's no problem for insulin needles.>>40925488Don't inject into the rectus femoris, the muscle is too tough and it will hurt, use the vastus lateralis, it'll go in like butter and you won't feel a thing
>>40930271Golden rule: don't fuck with hrt unless you plan on transitioning, it's not a toy.
>>40930718You can't microdose estrogen to be 'a little bit feminine' dummy, it doesn't work that way, you're replacing one primary sex hormone for a different one, and it's one or the other. You need to have proper primary sex hormone levels.
>>40931560is there anything else then, that can make my face look like a trans girl's? i also remember seeing somewhere that a certain drug can inhibit breast growth but i forgot what>>40931560>You need to have proper primary sex hormone levels.how can i do that?
>>40931820At this stage I can't even tell if you're serious or not..Please stay far away from hormones.
is there any real different between een ev ec aside from dosign frequency? reading language like "higher peaks" etc makes me scared my een wont be as effective as if i had chosen ec or ev
>>40932517</3 :(I just want to look more feminine naturally..
>>40930718>blood testsThey're in the OP's resources.▶ Blood tests (US): https://www.privatemdlabs.com/, https://www.labsmd.com/▶ Blood tests (UK, Ireland): https://www.medichecks.com/▶ Blood tests (Canada Only): https://bloodtestscanada.com/▶ Blood tests (Sweden): https://werlabs.se/▶ Blood tests by mail: https://www.letsgetchecked.com/>what about ppl like hrtwinks or femboys? They seem to have relatively small breasts, plus if I'm taking a low dosage it won't grow so much right?I can tell you that after only a few months, I got breasts that require a sports bra to hide, and that was on a dose that I made too low by mistake. How much or how little you grow breasts is very dependent on your genetics.>>40931820That drug is raloxifene. It inhibits breast growth but I don't know anything about it and I don't know anyone on this board who has claimed to use it long term
>>40932581If you really want to be feminine and take HRT forever but don't want breasts, you should plan on getting top surgery later.But yeah, microdosing isn't really a thing. You can't pick and choose what happens. A low dose only slows everything down, but everything still happens simultaneously.
>>40932607Ok, thanks but what are the blood tests for? Do I need to monitor my e levels or something? also how low should the doses be? And do I need an AA? I really don't know anything about diy hrt sry
Prog makes me smell awful. what do i do? up my E? change from oral to anal prog? dump prog altogether?
>>40932911If you are new to this, I know this might sound a bit unhelpful, but it’s on you to read through all of the resources available and take in the important information. https://transharmreduction.org/blood-tests - this is a good site DIY hrt requires a lot of research so do be patient and just read through as much as you can. With your two questions, yea you need blood tests to make sure the hrt is working and it is not too low or too high, for pills start low and work your way up, and if starting on tablets you will most likely definitely need AA to reduce T levels to below 50 ng
>>40932911Yes, you want to monitor your testosterone and estrogen levels. A trams woman wants them within cis female ranges. Testosterone being too high masculinizes you. Estrogen being too low prevente you from feminizing. If both are too low, you may develop osteoporosis and anemia.Your other questions are answered by the thread infographic. You can technically do estrogen monotherapy to suppress your T, but to be safe, I'd recommend using an AA in the beginning.
>>40933041>>40933044Kk thanks y'all
>>40930271If you wanna do hrt, you generally have to go all the way. Taking a low dose of e without suppressing t would give you the opposite of what you want: you'd grow little boobs but your skin/hair would remain masculine from the t. Do the women in your family have small boobs?
>>40933235>Do the women in your family have small boobs?Nofor now I'll wait until I'm away from my family, then research on hrt, then start
Do you have any tips on avoiding testicular athropy while on estrogen monotherapy with injections.Might be a little unrealistic and a bit pornbrained of me but i really want to keep my genitals functioning as best they can and i know some girls are able to keep it going normally (big inspo is this girl on twitter, doggirlthing. shes been on hrt since she was 16, is now in her 20s, her bits seem to function normally and her balls while on the smaller side still look nice and full)Do i like combine my hrt regimen with external meds? Ive heard people do testosterone cream on their genitals but idk about that.I know im supposed to keep masturbating to not get ED, thats already something i do
So I was cleaning my apartment and found my old estradiol enanthate vial with MCT oil that i recieved about 1,5 years ago. I had drawn from it like around 15 times before I lost it. There is no discoloration, dirt or hairs or anything inside it and it looks clear. It was in a dry place out of sunlight for the whole time. Is it still safe to use or will I die if i inject it or something?
>>40933524safe
>>40933618probably
Dunno where else to put this but i guess it's worth a shot. It's a long story but basically I'm 31M, partner just turned 28, nonbinary. Doesn't necessarily want to be a woman, hates male aging, facial/body hair (and has had electrolysis to kill all facial hair for good) hates masculinity or being referred to as a man (prefers they them, she/her if secondary, doesn't like he/him) and wants to be fem leaning androgynous. That's more of my speed anyway so I'm all for it, they've only just started estradiol now (don't know the dose, I'm not well versed in these things.) What am i in for the next couple months, both in regards to their physical changes and mentally, will they mentally be the same person or will i be dating a stranger?
>>40934761They are going to loose all sex drive
>>40934761Loss of sex drive, B.O. will stink less, body hair will grow in slower, and some amount of breast developmentAlso, they might cry more. I experienced no mental changes other than that.
