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I like how somebody on reddit's /r/asktransgender put it when asked about the mental effects of HRT: "I like how I look better when I'm on HRT".

Carrie, reading your posts has been very enlightening, having gone through a struggle with my gender identity that somewhat mirrors yours. Though they're ...

could all of the things I have experienced, all of the highs and the lows, really just be in my head?



Sure, the human mind is really quite powerful. Back when I was dealing with my nausea phase, being totally sick from worry, I was thinking to myself that maybe I was just ill, or that I had ...

I am constantly looking for feelings which validate my feelings of transsexualism...



Note that the "constantly looking" bit is a feeling of transsexualism in itself.


Kind of funny, I'm doing the same thing that cis-guys do. They're constantly doing things in order to prove their manliness ...

I think there's also something else going on. You've only figured out that this is right for you a couple of months ago, remember? To give you a bit of an idea, here's my recent history:

In my country all gender dysphoria treatment is done through two gender teams, each treating people from their ...

Usually 100mg is the avg or standard. Anything above will render T extremely low.



Your spiro must be stronger than mine then. I'm on 150 mg/day and my testosterone is at average levels.. for a male. :(

It's to be expected though; spiro blocks at the receiving end (cellular receptors) and ...

Being concerned with your physical gender identity, or as I have seen others put it, your sex identity (http://freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/2012/03/21/gender-expression-is-not-gender-identity/#comment-13903) is, I think, downright typical for transsexuals.

In fact, that's what bothers me about ...

Ah right, you're on a much higher dose than I was on at the time (0,5mg). My body probably simply ran out during the day.

I also used to use estrofem, but I had a lot of mood swings while on it. Turns out that estrofem, being estradiol hemihydrate, it's processed kinda fast into its active form by the liver, leading to rather high peaks and deep valleys in estrogen levels. If you're also sensitive to that, look into ...

Good luck! Do you have an ice-pack ready for if the pain afterwards is too much?

Yes folks, this is what us MtF transpeople go through voluntarily.

(delurk)


The first three sessions are going to be $200 each, monthly, and each subsequent session will be $155. It should take somewhere between 6-9 sessions before the obnoxious little itchy protuberances are completely eviscerated, so hypothetically it's going to cost me somewhere between $1065 ...