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>>43677083good job redoing the links
>>43677109thanks, anon! i hope it's okay, it looked like the thread text hadn't really been changed much since around 2017 or so...i intend on redoing the stuff in the "Links that need updating" section when i get the free time too :) also on my TODO list is adding more FTM stuff (hence my specifying "MTF" for a lot of links...), but more or less the only seller i know of is PurplePandaLabs :(
if i order vials to the uk, how long do they usually take to arrive? i'm debating whether to order to my house or my university accommodation.
>>43677162doing god's work anon this is a valuable resource
>>43677162unsure if its wise to list test suppliers
odds that homebrewers wont start drama again in hrtgen? (close to zero)
>>43677242why's that? i know it's illegal but if governments ever cracked down on test suppliers they'd piss off every zoomer cismoid in the country. do they actually do anything about it?
>>43677261idk if you wanna find shit go check roider sites like steroidsourcetalk >>43677253notice how its always the americans
>>43677242i think you're right, but if not on the board, where else do people reliably get information on getting test? *reddit* is cucked enough as is... maybe a note to "check bodybuilding forums for sources" could suffice?>>43677253i really hope they don't...
>>43677261are you actually so terminally fembrained that you cant just look up a roid dealer like any other man? theres literally 1000s of them what the fuck pathetic fucking pinkskin jfc /spit
>>43677606i'm not looking for t i want estrogen. i'm just asking because there's no way the government would want to piss off gymbros when they make up a solid 90% of the gen z male demographic.
yay new hrtgen
>>43677177Also, do the vials come in recognisable packages?
>>43677960No, the box is plain and the little inserted box is typically also plain unless you order from otoko who sends in a weird fetishy insert box but theyre in latam so probably not of interest to you.Most sellers will have two options for the label on the vial itself, a stealth label that says its a generic essential oil and a regular label that just says estradiol blablabla. If you're paranoid always go for stealth, but if you order from a UK brewer there shouldn't be a problem with non-stealth label.
>>43677997Okay, that's fine. Honestly my parents would probably be fine with me trooning but I don't want an awkward conversation and they'd probably be scared of DIY more than anything. Unless private works, but DIY is probably easier.If I order from a UK supplier will it take too long to get to me?
>>43677541PSYOP PSYOP PSYOP
>>43678082cmon just ignore and report
>>43678208They are banned now.
is it better to buy from hera or symphony, like which one has the least problems ig
>>43680122both have dust issues recently but if you're domestic US hera is faster with shipping, symphony has been really slow lately
>>43680186ive only seen symphony have crimp issues in the uk recently
>>43680122I bought two vials in March right before they shut down. They never replied to any of my emails for 4 weeks and I was only able to get a refund and I never got my vials. Ordered from OGL during their firesale and everything arrived on time but both vials they sent me had dust, lol. Hopefully they refund me soon.
>>43680186>both have dust issues:(does anyone not? i wouldnt wanna inject dust
is this a hon dose
sometimes i get a bump where i inject and this time it's kinda largethis didn't happen for a few weeks but i can't tell if i messed something up or i'm ignoring a problem
>>43677083>>43677162holy moly someone actually updated the copypastayou're an angel, thank you for your service nona
>>43677083is it a bad idea to take pio and gain weight if my whr is 0.67 at bmi 18i planned on buying the pio about a year ago when my bmi was 19 and my whr was 0.79, but i worry now it will do more harm than good
>>43680456lurk moar
>>43680508thank you for the thank you! just doing my part in helping the community <3t. wastedOP
>>43677092why has HRTGen's beloved second Image been forsakened
>>43681077oops! i'm so sorry, i forgot to post it,,,, forgive me, nona!
>>43680320every big supplier seems to at the moment but you could try aurelia or another of the less popular ones.
>>43680186this is construed like every single vial has dust in it when its likely like 1/1000 to 1/3000
>>43680122I would personally never trust Symphony, they were in here a few threads back talking about how they accidentally leaked tracking numbers of orders through their public review API for two weeks. LE could use it to find the names/addresses of person who ordered HRT with a subpoena to USPS (Florida has been building a case recently with seized packages so it's probably already been done).It's just a complete amateur move to have a massive opsec failure that leaks customer information to feds like that and I recommend never ordering from Symphony Labs because of it.
>>43681500fwiw they also lied in their big reddit comeback announcement about "no customer information being compromised" with their opsec failure when it was obviously not true
>>43681534was that not like a month before the reviews shit also i presume they didnt shut down from the reviews api maybe leaking 4 peoples customer info (as bad as that is)
>>43681605nta but before they locked down the api leak it was 25 people's information that was exposed, which isn't too bad but not ideal by any means
damn i hope yall homebrewers are behind seven proxies i for one would not post on a gov datamining forum about troon things except as a sort of joke or ruse that only a fool would etcetc
>>43681644thank you for correcting me, i am somewhat uninformed about that, even if its just tracking numbers i think its pretty fucked.also i its less about law enforcement tracking shit and more just about the fact that leaking that is bad, i dont think it would be too hard for LE to get customer info but maybe im stupid.
>>43680456https://estrannai.se/#it0_c,,,1_u,7,10,2pretty normal >>43680496no its fine>>43680547>i worry now it will do more harm than goodi mean it might. its really subjective anyway and also varies so much individually. it could go where its "supposed to" and you could hate it or it could mess with the numbers and upset your worms even if you look better. you could always lose weight after if you dont like >>43680320ive never even seen a dust. lets all post where our packages came from in the name of safety >>43681500>I would personally never trusti never trust crying anons>talkingyeah thats p bad>>43670991>Most trans people buying DIY are the opposite, they're more trusting, tru. idk it seems like this is a pretty new thing. it will be tragic and then they will figure it out.
>>43681776Hi Tea! Have you thought about running all your posts through LLM first so it's not so obvious when you samefag? ^_^
>>43681827she doesn't type like that at all
>>43681827lfmao not even close
NUKE AMERICAN HOMEBREWERS
yeah ok
>>43682060just reset everything lets go back three years
>>43680456no
Accidentally came across this horrible set of official hrt guidelines from Johns Hopkins for 'doctors' to follow.-Bloods at peak not trough-Targets 100-200 E, <55 T-Spiro up to 400mg/day-Finasteride as an AA-Progesterone from day 1Dosages 2mg swallowed pills, OR 0.1mg patch 2x/week OR 10mg valerate/week. It's all over the place.This is an outrage. Doctors who don't know shit about hrt will just follow this because it's the 'official' method.A friend of mine just went on hrt and they gave her basically this, except 2mg/day gel and finasteride as the AA, and Prog from day 1, and she's really proud of her hondose and that she's doing it the 'right way' with a doctor. She won't listen to me that she's being tragically sabotaged. Bloods at midpoint will be completely wrong, I guess she'll do gel in the morning, test at 1000 E, but then crash to 50 in the evening. After 3 years she'll get zero feminization and think that 'hrt just doesn't work for some people'.How are they allowed to do this?
Hi, I'm in Australia and looking to start HRT. I found a clinic that offers implants, after a brief search (reddit) it seems like its comparable to other methods of delivery, but I'd like to hear any opinions from /hrtgen/ on them. aka am I geomaxxing my HRT?
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>>43680186Astrovials Why are they forgotten
>>43683639Just man up and take injections
>>43682924In my defense I got plenty of feminization on 50mg spiro and 4mg oral ev. Even my hair grew back. E was 60pgml T <20ngdl.
>>43684679>E was 60pgmlSay whut?Do you know what 200mg of Spiro twice a day would do to someone, and do you know what would happen if they were given finasteride instead of Spiro?The point is doctors who don't know anything about hrt can just blindly prescribe the shit on this list and think they're doing it right, 'by the book' and end up fucking people up
>>43684757But it says to start with 50mg. It's implicit that you'd only raise it if it didn't work.
>>43684802You test bloods at midpoint and you've got no way of knowing if it's working or not. But up to 200mg 2x/day is never ok. Neither is Finasteride as an alternative to Spiro.
>>43681077that is v2.0this is v2.51took that pic from https://leftypol.org/lgbt/res/1501.html
>>43684866Oh yeah that's fucked
how long does it usually take 'merrican brewers on average to ship an order? mine has had a label made pretty quickly but that's about it and its slowly worrying me
>>43684646astro doesnt ship to usa
Can I add dutasteride or does it do nothing if I'm on injections?
i usually pull to 0.3 on my 1ml syringe when i inject my een. i use 10ml/40mg vials. is this too much? i'm doing monotherapy.
>>43685254it does nothing>>43686087i assume you mean a 10ml vial with a concentration of 40mg/ml. yes it's way too much and you're a fucking retard for doing diy without learning first
>>43686207it's not that i didn't learn. I started with a lower dose, but my friend who is properly prescribed een uses that amount. we are around the same build and she was thinking i'd get better results doing it that way. what should i lower it to? 0.2? 0.1?
>>43686252alternatively - should i stop for a few weeks and let my levels come down?
>>43686252get blood tests. in the meantime lower your dosage by at least half. also i really doubt your friend was prescribed een, let alone 12 mg weekly. either you're lying or they are
>>43686329alrighty. thanks nonny. i have no reason to lie myself but its not outside of their character. i've never actually seen their vials just what they've told me.
>>43686087>>43686252>>43686283The fuck am I reading.. Well done for asking questions I guess but there is SO much information out there, and you're just guessing about something as important as this..You should use 5mg/week, that's 12 units on your syringe, or 0.12ml. Your build doesn't matter. You won't get 'better results' by injecting more oil. You should think long and hard about whether you actually want to transition to a woman for the rest of your life or not before you continue.Also your friend is not prescribed EEn, and certainly not 12mg per injection.
>>43686490That is the dose I started with. I don't know. She's been transitioning for years so I kind of just take what she says as gospel. I've only been doing it for about a year and a half, injections for maybe ~6 months, and the higher dose for... 3? I know I'm stupid for it. I am adrift in life right now and barely have anyone to talk to. I do want to be a woman. I would not have started doing this if it werent the case. Have I fucked myself really badly by doing this, though? Other than some crazy mood swings, (which is why i came to ask this in the first place) i really havent noticed many differences.
>>43686562>I kind of just take what she says as gospelSo maybe don't do that anymore?Don't worry Boo you'll be fine. From today take 1 week off, and then 2 weeks from your last injection just go back to 5mg/week, it's plenty for most people. You're about to feel shit for the next week or so and I don't envy you, but in 3 weeks from now you'll be doing great, ok?
>>43681776>upset your worms even if you look betterrelatable
>>43682924>-Bloods at peak not trough>-Targets 100-200 Ethe fuck? this sounds like malpractice. do doctors even half life blood serum calculator? i hate when people cant think for themselves and 10x more when they are "educated"
>>43686087good job on telling us dose and concentration>>43686329>let alone 12 mg weeklythey didnt tell frequency lol probly okay for 10/14 day but a lot for 7day>>43686329>also i really doubt your friend was prescribed eensome countries do, esp in latam, but its not usually a mono preparation except in spain(?) irrc >>43686562>Other than some crazy mood swingsyeah they told me overdose is like fatigue headache nausea drowsiness irritability brain fog insomnia and of course mood swings stuff like that.>me slowly turning up the dose dial while looking back at the audience for approval >>43686634you can use the sim to dial in a smoother curve if you really care but that works just as good desu. can just drop strait from 12 to 5 in one week too it might be smoother than skipping a week since your cutting the dose so much or you could taper down with like an 8 in the middle week. smoother drop might let your body catch up and downregulate in case its desensatized or something on such a high dose idek if it does that tho but for me i would want to prevent pms symptoms or even bigger mood swings to maintain my comfort https://estrannai.se/#it0_c,12,7,2-12,7,2-12,7,2-12,7,2-12,7,2-12,7,2-12,7,2-12,7,2-8,7,2-7,7,2-6,7,2-5,7,2-5,7,2-5,7,2_cu,5,7,2-cu,12,7,2,2>>43686846yeah i started creatine and the worms are furious that my weight is going up even though my waist is the same they are like BUT THE NUMBER STARTS WITH A 140 instead of 130! you are FAT! FATFATFAT!
>>43686909My friend is so proud of herself that she's going to an expert (not an expert) and is doing it by the book (the book is shit) and I'm mad that she refuses to do any of her own research. She even refuses to type finasteride into Chat-GPT to ask if it's an AA. She has blind trust in this doctor and this doctor has blind trust in this document and in the end it's just two blind motherfuckers baffled that she still has chest hairs.People are getting hurt with shit like this.
>>43687185>She has blind trust in this doctor and this doctor has blind trust in this documentits so frustrating. pay a million dollars to a school to pass multiple choice test not to understand the material. but this isnt the thread for that rant lol
>>43687253Yeah I just want medical professionals to stop hondosing people out of incompetence. It's not even like the doctor can say 'I don't know' and refer her to an endo because the endo doesn't know either and is following this same bullshit pamphlet. People shouldn't fuck with stuff they don't understand.
>>43686634>>43687139thanks anons. i wont be listening to her anymore lmao. i realize im really fucking stupid for this. i too easily blindly trust people if i think they know more than me, tranny shit aside i'm just not smart. i think i'll taper my doses down so i dont jump into a woodchipper.
>>43684869nta but pretty sure the old page 2 was 2.0, the 2.51 from leftypol is a truncated version of our page 1
>>43687139i thought this said height and was about to lose my shit ngl LMFAO>they didnt tell frequency lol probly okay for 10/14 day but a lot for 7dayeven on 14d this is a super concerning dosage ngl, 10mg is probably more typical for 14d (although still dont recommend)>>43688636youll be fine. do you get labs done? if so when was your most recent?
(ten)drama!
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what happens if i dont take AAs and only use E patches, or if i start and stop E every now and then
>>43692985You can technically mono with patches but its expensive and bothersome.If your body isn't receiving enough estrogen to block T and you aren't taking blockers then you won't see results.Starting and stopping just makes it so you remasculinize when you're off HRT. I know some people go off for a month or so once a year and it works fine for them but idk, i dont see the point.
>>43693005starting and stopping isnt something i want to do but its a little expensive and takes a while to arrive so i just want to make sure i wont end up fucking up my health severly if i cant get my hands on it
what should i use for crypto because i was using coinbase b4 but it fucking stole 60 euro from me and it wont let me transfer to my bank from it without uploading my passport but then it glitches out after i do the face scan and shit it asks me for, and im really shitting my self i wont be able to fix it by the time i need to order another vial
>>43693462why don't you write them an email and tell them that shit's fucked?
>>43693483i told their customer surport and they just told me to keep uploading my passport over and over :> i spent like 3 fucking hours on the phone with 5 different jeets
>>43693491unirnonically try again later as you can't be the only one struggling with this so it should be fixed some day but thanks for the warning o7never used it myself and i am still confused about it but its listed on serapharma so i was thinking retroswap maybe? makes some sense in my NWO shithole at least..
>>43693462So uh, what i do typically is i have an app on my phone called cake wallet.This is a standalone wallet that stores any crypto. It also has an integration to buy crypto from crypto seller sites like banxa, moon pay, whatever. And i just buy my crypto thru here.I havent had any issues but they do want kyc on the sites you buy it from, so id scan and selfie scan. But they don't take money before you've completed the kyc
would this work- 50mg spiro per day- climara 50 3.8mg estradiol patches
What's the deal with pio again? From what i know it just makes you get diabetes>>4369356050mg i think twice a day "should" in theory be enough. But consider a different aa, spiro is shit
what does "soon" mean when it comes to vial restocks?
Should I consume the 72 estradiol pills sublingually on top of my usual Ev regiment? Does it actually help or nah and could it maybe be doing something bad... My breast growth maybe slowed down a little.. btw almost 2 years hrt and few months on prog that is cycled every 2 weeks
>>43689806/HRTGen/ had two pictures one was detailed guide and the other one was quick guide.You can see that from here:1) https://hrt.coffee/assets/img/hrtgen-v2.5-quick.png2) https://hrt.coffee/assets/img/hrtgen-v2.5-detailed.pngthe 2.51 one is an updated one which adds slightly more detail
>>43693790>What's the deal with pio again?it also seems (?) to negatively affect breast development according to https://mesityl.substack.com/p/does-pioglitazone-negatively-impact
TIL T4TPharma is still active as a mutual aid: https://t4tpharma.orgThey said "We are live and well! Big announcement to come this quarter. If you weren't able to donate for your vial in cash, pls consider sending us some XMR. We (obviously) operate at a loss, so every donation goes directly towards raws for the next batch. You keep the project going <3 (updated Apr 2026)"
>>43693868could be a few days/weeks
I'm on oestrogel for six months now, and just started last week taking 50mg spiro twice a day, how long should I expect to wait before I can notice penis shrinkage? I know it's a matter of usage, and I don't use it ever, but I'm somewhat sexually active with my boyfriend so it does get hard a few times in the week idk if that changes thingsalso is spiro really that bad should I change it for another aa
anyone taken Black Maca before restore your libido ? I have 0 libido on HRT and want it back. I've heard of Black Maca but seeing if anyone's taken this before
is no libido somewhat related to effort and practice?i feel like it gets nuked and you all dont even try, just try a couple a times a week and it sorta comes back on its own?why everyone saying it takes 2 years its only been months
>>43697277well, what is your regimen now?often 0 libido is caused by a shitty HRT regimen. otherwise, you can try supplementing something androgenic like low-dose nandrolone or T. prog is the only meme.>>43698761>just try a couple a times a week and it sorta comes back on its own?are you describing responsive libido?my libido went responsive with nothing more than dht blockers; use it and it stays intense, ignore it and it dies until i reawaken it.
>>43670991>Unironically the steroid market is doing this better than the E market because cis dudes buying steroids are more seasoned drug buyers and vendors that try this get shit on relentlessly.steroid users are immediately bombarded with tons of options and vendors, so they have to actually think about what they're buying.in general, tranners will just go with whatever the first person they talk to tells them to do.
>>43698837I'm taking 8mg Estradiol , and 12.5mg Cyproterone Acetate every day. But I've purchased leuprolide acetate and will switch to that when it arrives
>>43699095>Cyproterone Acetatecyproterone acetate is a horrible anti-androgen for libido. a GnRH agonist like leuprolide could be better, but would likely drop your T well below cis female levels, which could also hurt your libido.i'd either go for monotherapy or E + bica if you wanna preserve libido.
where do i buy progesterone suppositories now that open gate labs is gone
>>43699713nevermind i just had to look around a little
>>43677083>qottThe first dozen times it was very anxiety inducing. I passed out after an injection once and I had a bad panic attack when I woke up. Now I kind of enjoy injecting because I feel better and less moody after.
>>43700225aw :< im glad you enjoy it now ^-^
>qottkinda? i used to think it was unapproachable, that something would surely go wrong, but it became a reflection of my agency real quick. i miss it when i'm feeling bad, missing it makes me feel bad, but starting the week off with a injection makes me feel in control, that i have agency.btw, is acne a good tell if im close to T dominance again? missed a couple shots in a row and noticed that my skin was getting oily, even getting whiteheads. should be back to normal now, but that was enough to scare me awake.
>>43677083hiiilike 5-6 week ago I came here asking for help and i was on a decently high dose of IM EV in addition to cypro. anon told me to stop cypro and i would get higher e2. anon was rightso im back here now, and im wondering what dosage schedule i should target instead?? Before I was doing 5mg EV/4days but my trough e2 levels have more than doubled since stopping cypro at the same dose. currently my trough is 986pmol/l. I was thinking of going down to 4mg/4days as I would like to be closer to ~780pmol/l (200 pg/ml) bc my current peaks are giving me incredibly fucked up sickness feeling constant migraines anxiety etc.does this seem reasonable? its about a 20% decrease, I feel like doing more is a little scary but I am also really scared of doing too much... also if anyone is curious, my T was 0.8nmol/l taking cypro 12.5mg daily, and after stopping for a month completely, it went up to 0.082nmol/l. lol. thank you so much for any help
>>43700501i meant 0.82 sorry
>>43698837>are you describing responsive libido?i guess yeah, that too. but i thought that was normal and google says only 30% of women and 5% of men and seems to be related to in the moment. i meant more like you will get more spontaneously interested if you just force it a couple times after the initial nuking, and that pushing the responsive part takes less time to activate if you just work at it but yes its also layered with learning how to deal with going from primarily spontaneous to primarily responsive im just wondering if other people experience that only a months since starting timeframe rather than what i typically hear which is full spontaneously returning "ravenously" in a years timeframe