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my injection is late by 5 days but i feel my boobs itching now, does that mean my dose was too high? last blood tests gave 455 pg/mL at through but i lowered the dose from 5mg a week to 4 since
If I do somehow puncture a vessel while injecting into my vastus lateralis, is the needle going to look different when it comes out and is it going to bleed more than normal? What are the telltale signs?
>>41551533And is 0.1 ml of AV enanthate enough to cause an oil embolism? I heard it takes far more
>>41550141The nipple sensitivity will last for years Estradiol results are useless without T resultsGive us the full information
>>41551583T: 14 ng/pLLH: 0.08 mUI/mLFSH: 0.30 mUI/mLSHBG: 95.3 nmol/LProlactin: 65.1 ng/mL
>>41552439Yeah you can get away with 4mg
Can you girls redpill me about progesterone?I transitioned in ancient times when progesterone was widely regarded as a brainwormy meme with dubious benefits.Now everyone seems to be on it.Has science changed?
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I was following a guide that said to get a female hormone level blood test but why couldn't I get the male one?Outing myself seems fucking cringe as shit but if I gotta I gotta
>>41553228All we have is anecdotal evidence
Hi, this might sound like a stupid question, but when i swap needles I lose a lot of E in the needle head. Am I supposed to be sucking that down the barrel before swapping needles to get the full 1ml, or do I just throw away that little bit?
>>41556935i was taught to throw it away but then again it was a pooner who taught me so idk also dont bother trying to bleed with the drawing needle
>>41553228i honestly think it just makes you more horny and emotionally irregular (which people apparently like)
>>41551533do you aspirate before injecting?
>>41556987it doesn't even make me horny but that might be because im on a low dose (100mg.) all it does is make me extremely suicidal. I still take it every night though, to torture myself
messing around doing some enby experimentsi started taking micro dose (12.5mg cpa 2x weekly, 1mg e hemihydrate sublingually split 3/day) like a month ago.grew breast buds after like 10 days and reproductive organs aren't really workingshould i expect things to keep happening or is that all from this kind of hondose
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>>41549938im on 6mg EEn SubQ weekly, and its been already 7 injections but i still sometimes get morning woodshould i up the dose?how much should i add?
How did boners/libido change during hrt?
>>41558217sorry, are you taking 1mg of E hemihydrate every 8 hours or are you splitting a 1mg pill into 3 pieces and taking it every 8 hours? because if you're doing the former, 3mg of E hemihydrate sublingually is not low lol (iirc thats like 4mg of estradiol valerate, and you're taking sublingual which gives you higher levels comparing to oral). if you're doing that you're not taking a micro dose, you're taking a normal dose, thats why you're already getting some results (even tho 12.5mg of cypro only two times a week is a bit low, but CPA is very potent anyway. some people take it only 3 times a week and get them T nuked with that)>>41560170its probably the first thing to change. you will get a lower libido and you wont get random erections anymore. if you do not use your penis (by jerking off or having sex), you will lose it (which for me for example was a good thing lol, but i know some people want to keep it working so its your decision)>>41560079i think you should just wait a bit or do some blood tests if you're really concearned about that. 6mg EEn subq a week is a very regular dosage. again, wait one or two more weeks and do some blood tests to see if your levels are good
>>41560681i am taking 1mg total per day, split into 3 piecesfrom what i've seen that usually integrates to average levels below whole-cycle averagei've also seen studies where they titrate people down to that cypro dose but in conjunction with pretty high e dosing that probably act together
What's the difference between finasteride and dutasteride and which is better/more effective for use after an orchi if I still am scared of dht?
>>41561464finasteride blocks one enzime, dutasteride blocks two. dutasteride is more powerful
i cut my dose from 15.5 to 12.5 mg EEn injected subq, is that largely to blame for my recent dpdr symptoms and if so will they likely subside?
how are you actually supposed to know if your T is a good level on bica?
>>41562468are you feeling signs of non supressed T in your body? high libido, more random erections, if you jerk off your semen wouldnt be transparent and thin. the best way to know tho its obviously by doing bloodtests
Because of circumstances ever since I started hrt 3 months ago I couldn't get blood test but now I'm working to it, what are the chances I've been hondosing and if I did is there any harm I have done or it's not anything relevant?4mg every 5 days estradiol valerate.
>>41561549What's the typical dose for dutasteride?
>>41563126I feel like I should add more information I do subq, I'm 18 and started after my birthday, idk if this could help but I'm physically active?
fellow gender affirmers, what drugs can help me get rid of my gyno?
How do I stop getting lumps that last around a week when I inject in my stomach? They aren’t itchy just slightly red then turn purple and disappear
>>41563152cis men scared of balding take 0.5mg per day every single daydr will powers, on his reddit (you can search more about that there) says he puts his trans women patients on 1mg of dutasteride per week, so they would take 0.5mg of dutasteride two times a week.you should do blood tests tho. if its below 10ng/dL you shouldnt be worried
>>41563126>>415632934mg every 5 days of EV you will probably have levels slightly below the recommended i believe. nothing to panic about bc hondose would be levels a lot lower and even if you were taking a hondose, 3 months is nothing. do blood tests, if the levels are low just up the dosage a bit (5 or 6mg) every 5 days
>>41563770Alr thanks I was probably just overreacting, I might add that I'm doing mono therapy and after reading a bit more I might bump up to 5mg just for peace of mind. I think I'll do my blood test in a few weeks when I can afford it, even thought it will probably only be T and E2 since it gets expensive easily.Thanks for the tips.
is aspirating unnecessary if im doing subQ with insulin needles? shit's like 6mm, so i doubt i'll be hitting a vein in my stomach, but i still get anxious thinking abt it lol
>>41560720>>41558217i also got breast growth from 1mg e
>>41563326serms (raloxifene, tamoxifen, etc.)aromatase inhibitors (letrozole, exemestane, anastrozole, etc.)
>>41556935Yeah you should pull the E out of the needle deadspace before swapping to your injection needle. Otherwise when you inject you fill the space of your new needle with your dose, and that doesn’t get injected either. The way you are doing it right now you actually are wasting 2x the amount that is left in the needle because you have two needles with that much left in them. Also, depending on your dose you can really underdose yourself. My needle deadspace was 0.05mL when I was starting, and I was injecting 0.1mL. So I was only getting half of my E per cycle for like 3 weeks until I caught it.
Hi Im starting diy t very soon and im wondering if one can get an accurate dose of 0.4ml in a 3ml syringe? Ik its more difficult than if it was 1ml but its all i have atm Picrel is 0.3ml right? Also ik it sounds dumb but it seems like a small ass amount of fluid , but thats just because its a bigger syringe right?
I finally decide to nut up and troon out and opengatelabs has been down for days. Perhaps this is a sign from god that it’s a bad idea
>>41567007It’s working now. Start trooning.
>>41567028orders not working>>41567007i was thinking same thing
>>41566521yeah thats 0.3ml, just count the stripes, every small stripe is 0.1ml. idk about dosages for FtM injections sorry but yeah assuming thats right and you should inject 0.3ml you have 0.3ml on your syringe, you just think its too little bc of the size of the syringe
>>41567087Thank you
>>41567086I’ll keep trying but if it’s still down by midnight I think I’ll just use the bitcoin I bought to buy shrooms lmao.
>>41565824did it stall out at some point? curious to know how long i can keep it up without making things complicated. i've been offered raloxifene but am still considering my options
is it true that the rubber stopper of a vial is putting a bunch of microplastics into the medicine and by 20 draws its not recommended to use it any longer?and also that the medicine in the vial degrades a lot just from the air in the syringe?
>>41567235i started ralox
>>41566521buy a 1ml syringe you retarded moid
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There any place to get estradiol cream with a relatively lower concentration? The gels are too high concentration to use for my whole face.
I started 5 weeks ago on daily 100mg Spiro, 4mg sublingual Estradiol. At 5 weeks my endo wanted me back in to check my levels, but I just lost my insurance and I can't afford the tests out of pocket. Based on my starting blood levels and my regimen, can anybody here guess if I should be able to reduce my Spiro or increase my estradiol dosage? I've heard you can cut out Spiro once your e levels are goodMy starting bloodwork 5 weeks ago:Estradiol: 22 pg/mLTestosterone: 657 ng/dL
>>41563721Switch to IM, it's a slight skin allergy, doesn't happen with IM
>>41571228its hard to know bc some people get T reduction with spiro more easier and some dont. on OP guide for example you see that spiro is listed to be kinda problematic at blocking regular male T levels, and 600ng/dL is on the regular to higher side, and 100mg spiro is not that much, some people take like 200mg. 4mg sublingual, if splited throughout the day (12/12hrs or 8/8/8hrs which can get you more stable levels) is a regular starter dosage.do you have signs of your T being supressed? no random erections, its harder to get and keep erections, if you jerk off your cum will be ligther, etcbut desu, if i were to guess, i would increase spiro or if posible change to another AA like ciproterone or bicalutamide
>>41572722My t went from 300 to 14 with 50mg spiro
>>41570841????You're not supposed to apply estrogen gel on your face
>>41572934300 is a lot lower than 650. but ok its posible. the only way to know is doing blood tests or trying to estimate by her signs (or lack of signs) of T supression on her body
>>41549938Is pio a meme or something actually worth looking into?
>>41567489it's rubber and you can negate the chance by drawing with needles that are smaller than people would normally use to draw (viscosity of the batch you have will make this either take forever or be relatively quick) just always use really thin needles and you're good.
>>41572722>do you have signs of your T being supressed? no random erections, its harder to get and keep erections, if you jerk off your cum will be ligther, etcYes. Seems to be working, definitely less random/night erections, barely stays hard, clearer cum Etc. Does that mean I can stop Spiro soon or would it be too early? Or up estradiol?
>>41574150you wont stop taking an antiandrogen, be spiro, cipro or bica, unless you're taking a estrogen dose high enough to supress your testosterone production on its own. thats called monotherapy. the best way to achieve estrogen levels that high is with injections. its very hard to get that with pills, desu i dont even know exactly the dosage you would need to take to achieve that with pills but i believe its something around 8mg. anyway, you're just 5 weeks on HRT. keep taking your 4mg of sublingual E and desu i would even up spiro to 100mg just to be sure, but YMMV. do blood tests as soon as you're able to. its the only way to know if your levels are good enough for your transition. or change to injections if you dont want to keep taking an AA. good luck!!
>>41549938Should one do diy hrt or "official" hrt if there's a choice?
>>41574710it depends on how good your endocrinologist is. if he/she knows what their doing, you can follow what they're saying. if they're put you in 2mg EV pills a day + 50mg of cyproterone a day you ignore them and DIY.basically, always do your research. theres a lot of resource to learn more about HRT and the effect and differente dosages and approaches and methods and etc out there. i follow the DIY path but i use the government gender clinic to blood tests and free AA. unfortunately my endo here is pretty bad so i dont follow her advices