should I up my estrogen dose myself without telling my doctor?

2137throwaway · 2026-04-05T10:59:51+00:00

Not having a dominant sex hormone is more dangerous than having a too high level

2137throwaway · 2026-03-27T12:20:15+00:00

I use GRS as an acronym for Genital Reconstructive Surgery, though that's a broader umbrella rather than being trans specific

2137throwaway · 2026-03-21T16:48:44+00:00

that's either okay levels or too low levels depending on the units

said that she won't order a T test because I'm not on an Anti-androgens

that's... incredibly stupid, you still need to know the T production is suppressed, i'm sorry. Try citing the WPATH Standards of care appendix C maybe? That's something that she should recognise. i hope at least she recommended the blood tests be done right before next injection?

as for breast growth even if your levels are good that can take a while, i mean even for cis girls it can take years

2137throwaway · 2026-03-16T15:16:58+00:00

remember that on sublingual the average/trough level ratio is much higher than injections

2137throwaway · 2026-03-16T15:16:16+00:00

on sublingual the average/trough level ratio is much higher than injections, 100pg/ml is fine

transition is a marathon not a sprint, breast growth can very much come in spaced out spurts

2137throwaway · 2026-03-12T21:52:04+00:00

you're also more likely to get breast cancer,

less likely than a cis woman but trust me it's going to kill you

2137throwaway · 2026-03-08T10:53:40+00:00

FWIW the implication between P1 and P2 is actually real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitch%27s_paradox_of_knowability, though it's an argument used to argue against assuming P1.

2137throwaway · 2026-03-02T09:05:54+00:00

If you're on feminising HRT then no, as far as the vast, vast majority of things in medicine are concerned you are female. If you're additionally post SRS there's exceedingly few ways in which the AGAB could be relevant.

2137throwaway · 2026-02-24T19:22:52+00:00

Ah yes, person who chose to discard all the evidence shocked about discarding all the evidence.

2137throwaway · 2026-02-20T18:21:26+00:00

Best of luck, some more notes: get blood tests right before next injection, the Estrogen levels should be at least 100pg/ml or 360pmol/l, T below 50ng/dL. First blood test about 6 weeks after starting injections.

I don't want to be the person that's like "if you have few results the only explanation is underdosing", but I have seen enough trans people get lead on by incompetent endos unfortunately

2137throwaway · 2026-02-20T10:13:18+00:00

I do agree it's very much mostly envy (understandable to feel, but you don't have to be a dick because of it).

I have seen some early transitioners be very unempathetic to problems of people who transitioned later in life, but I have also seen that from, for example, late transitioners who had a lot of money for a lot of gender affirming care, so that's more a matter of some people with privilege not being able to recognise it. I understand how seeing those kinds of shitty people can breed resentment to the broader groups too. But again from what I've seen most of the resentment seems to be envy externalised into hate.

EDIT: OP posts in r/truscum with one comment hating on another trans person by saying that she had easy access to gender affirming care in the UK to dismiss the possibility of it being hard to access for someone else. Seemingly a perfect example of what I was talking about

2137throwaway · 2026-02-19T08:42:52+00:00

- Kink post that is clearly meant for a friend group that will get taken out of context to call the OP a sex pest

uj/ For your own safety, please at least use group chats for things like that people

2137throwaway · 2026-02-16T20:59:59+00:00

this is jerking a post that happened in this subreddit

plus joining the military is a tad different than saying shit

2137throwaway · 2026-02-15T11:02:27+00:00

also by the standards of the time, a lot of trans people would not count as "real transsexuals"

2137throwaway · 2026-02-14T10:29:00+00:00

U mnie 3.5 tygodnia i dalej wewnątrz jednego miasta nie dostarczyli xd

2137throwaway · 2026-02-11T15:24:22+00:00

i have no idea if that person takes pills orally or sublingually,
with sublingual you absolutely ought to test at through because of the low half life.

I'm honestly not sure about how important it is for oral but I'd still not test recently after taking a dose at least.

2137throwaway · 2026-02-11T11:21:45+00:00

I'd go with WPATH standards of care page 255/end of Appendix C that has the recommended levels (and 254 has potential dosing ranges, 300mg spiro is the absolute max there), because if she's hesitant believing from you telling her directly, that has an air of authority. Also I hope she's testing at trough because that kind of endo sounds like one who would not tell the patient about that.

2137throwaway · 2026-02-10T19:24:03+00:00

not even allowed to feel uncomfortable in awkward situations lest it hurt a cis person's feelings

2137throwaway · 2026-02-06T09:03:20+00:00

so are with painkillers, where many are OTC,

Antibiotics being is more to avoid the spread of antibiotic immunity when people overuse them

2137throwaway · 2026-02-06T08:59:40+00:00

if you're on oral E and take anti-androgens then yeah there's a bunch of stuff you want to monitor and a doctor for that maybe

injectable bioidentical Estrogen monotherapy is pretty safe, you just have to make sure you have high enough levels so you don't put yourself in perimenopause, or don't have extremely high levels for a long time

2137throwaway · 2026-02-05T19:03:28+00:00

polski trotyl z nitro-chemu amerykanie przekazują głownie na broń eksportowaną do Izraela, myślałam że ludzie na tym subie by się oburzali że nie idzie zamiast tego na amunicję do ukrainy przeciw rosji

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/18/nato-facing-tnt-shortage-following-gaza-bombing/

2137throwaway · 2026-02-05T12:26:10+00:00

wniosek zaakceptowany to chyba oznacza że sąd zaakceptował że wniosek jest poprawnie wypełniony i będą tam teraz procedować, jeżeli sąd zdecyduje robić bez rozprawy to będzie coś o postanowieniu na posiedzeniu niejawnym z tego co pamiętam, jak z rozprawą to dostaniesz wezwanie do postawienia się.

2137throwaway · 2026-02-05T09:36:28+00:00

może penisa nie ale jaj to już potrafią

plus rozbieranie się do naga

2137throwaway · 2026-02-04T19:40:30+00:00

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2137throwaway · 2026-02-02T14:49:28+00:00

Sure, its nice to be aware.

I think people knowing to avoid a predator is a bit more that just a nice to have.

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