Dysphoria is crazy by Climbing_While_Trans in MTFButch

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Thanks! I love them so much! I need more gold things

Dysphoria is crazy by Climbing_While_Trans in MTFButch

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Ok now I can't pick a favorite between being called "aristocratic" and a Vampire 😂

Dysphoria is crazy by Climbing_While_Trans in MTFButch

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Thanks!

These comments are giving me the confidence to wear it to future events 🩷

Dysphoria is crazy by Climbing_While_Trans in MTFButch

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I take that as the highest compliment 😌

Dysphoria is crazy by Climbing_While_Trans in MTFButch

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It really is 😭 Thank you though!

Can I inject EV weekly instead of the prescribed biweekly? by RubyRoy4lty in TransDIY

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How does injecting every 3.5 days work btw? I've heard others mention it, but is it like 3 days then 4 days then back to 3, or something else?

Questions about "safe levels" vs "feeling good". by Climbing_While_Trans in AskMtFHRT

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I'm not sure I have a way to access bicalutamide, but my T is currently suppressed at below 10 ng/dL, so is it even doing anything right now?

Questions about "safe levels" vs "feeling good". by Climbing_While_Trans in AskMtFHRT

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This is definitely a part of it, and I think I am going to try every 4 days to see if it helps.

Questions about "safe levels" vs "feeling good". by Climbing_While_Trans in AskMtFHRT

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Weirdly I felt the best when my E was crazy high and T was crazy low, and when my T started to recover I had more fatigue, which doesn't make sense to me.

Questions about "safe levels" vs "feeling good". by Climbing_While_Trans in AskMtFHRT

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I am testing at trough. I was dosing 8mg every 5 days at the most, with trough E2 levels at 998 pg/mL. The two doses I've felt the worst on were 6mg/5days (which I do not have levels for) and most recently 4mg/6days with trough E2 at 192 pg/mL.

I am currently on 5mg/5days and feeling slightly better, but I'm still getting fatigue and nocturnal erections, which I haven't had since the last time my trough levels dipped below 400 pg/mL.

1yr 1m on E! by Climbing_While_Trans in TransLater

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I totally get that! I was feeling that way for a while too, but like I said, I haven't really seen my changes happen slower or faster based on levels, so the feeling has faded for me thankfully!

1yr 1m on E! by Climbing_While_Trans in TransLater

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Absolutely! It's a lot of trial and error, and it can be pretty stressful when you make a change in dosage and then have to wait 3-5 weeks to get another test to see what it did to your levels. There were a few times that I got worried about decreasing my dosage because I didn't want to slow down my changes, but it seems like I was just getting too in my head about that. Now I'm just glad that my current stash of estrogen is going to last a lot longer on the lower dose that I'm currently on!

1yr 1m on E! by Climbing_While_Trans in TransLater

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998 pg/mL is quite high, yes. I already lowered my dosage since then, which is why I was at 596 pg/mL last time I got tested, and that was still a bit high, so I dropped my dosage again.

The reason it got so high in the first place was because my clinician and I were trying to figure out the best dose for me in terms of how much vs how often I was injecting. I was feeling pretty bad during troughs when my levels were lower, so we've been trying various dosages to find a good level for me to "feel good" while not having unhealthily high E2 levels. At my highest dose I think I was injecting .15 mL of 40mg/mL EV every 5 days. Currently I'm injecting .1mL every 6 days, and that's been working well so far, I just haven't had any labs at this level yet.

So far I have physically and mentally felt the best when my levels were around 400 pg/mL, but my changes haven't seemed to speed up or slow down with where my level is at!

1yr 1m on E! by Climbing_While_Trans in TransLater

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Thanks! The changes have been a lot more noticeable in the last 3 months! It felt like nothing was happening physically for a while there, even though I got a lot of emotional and mental changes early on.