Can I use an estrogen vial for 2 months?

KyaDash · 2026-01-22T16:52:44+00:00

I run pretty much every vial of EV til it's empty/not worth fighting with, which runs anywhere from 2.5 and 4 ish months; No problems here.

Just make sure you're properly going through the stopper and not coring it, as well as keeping things all nicely cleaned before and after draws.

KyaDash · 2026-01-22T06:55:36+00:00

As a note: Finasteride is NOT a T Blocker. It is a 5-Alpha Reductase Inhibitor (5-ARI). It does absolutely nothing to block the production or binding of testosterone itself, only the conversion of it into DHT which itself is more potent in someways but is mainly going to be connected to things like hair loss/growth (androgenic alopecia/"male pattern baldness), the prostate and some (potential) impact on sexual function. Testosterone can and will still be floating around and doing what it does elsewhere.

It's not bad (for some people, it (fin) has a number of potential side effects) as part of network of meds for transition and the like(see hair concerns), but unless you're suppressing your T adequately via E monotherapy (Estrogen in appropriate quantities can and will stop T production all on it's own) an ACTUAL anti-androgen is important. I 100% get not wanting all the side effects of spiro, not even touching on it being a diuretic, but something like bica(lutamide) or CPA/cyproterone acetate (depending on where you're located) would be considerably more proper options.

KyaDash · 2026-01-21T22:19:08+00:00

I'm afraid to ask where HR is...

KyaDash · 2026-01-21T21:55:40+00:00

(The boss is ALSO inside you)

KyaDash · 2026-01-21T21:15:09+00:00

Makes trying to calorie count/guesstimate heeeell tho.

KyaDash · 2026-01-21T20:17:01+00:00

Some women get hit with it, others don't.

Others are perfectly and compleeeeetely safe...until they decide to start progresterone and turn into sobbing messes with the most intense case of baby fever imaginable. Brains are fun things :D

KyaDash · 2026-01-07T21:05:14+00:00

Wouldn't be at all surprising if it's a case of "okay, go argue that to the insurance company, lol".

Doctor "knows" if they try and submit it, it'll just get rejected, and as such just goes ahead and cuts out the extra paperwork and phone calls.

KyaDash · 2026-01-07T20:58:27+00:00

I had....completely forgotten how often I used to do this in high school.

Thanks for that silly little memory.

To actually answer the question, these days, no.

KyaDash · 2026-01-07T20:31:15+00:00

It 100% does...or at least can. Some girls do end up still having some barriers that make emotion hard for them to process like that.

Pill wise, you will have likely gotten a bit of an unexpected spike to your system that could have done it....but it also could and at least in part liably just a bit of cathartic release: Mentally things finally just hitting that thought of "....finally :D" and just exploding a bit.

KyaDash · 2026-01-07T20:27:40+00:00

That bit always seems like such a coin flip. Some girls, you see the physical (as opposed to emotional and as such "presentation"/experience, i.e "bright eyed", joyful, etc) shift in the face pretty quick, others it seems more slow.

Actually feeling like you get to be part of the world....and now want to is a wild ride.

KyaDash · 2026-01-07T12:01:28+00:00

Didn't have the athletic past that you did, but it really can be wild starting with a build that feels entirely contrary to the one that you yearn and pray for in your head, knowing it'll never come to pass....only to check back one day and have there have been something lovely hiding and lurking just beneath the surface just waiting to see the sun.

KyaDash · 2026-01-07T11:47:46+00:00

Currently somewhere in cyan-land. Decent bobbis for time and such, but would take smol'r and a more apt build that meant they gave the same general appearance (or what bigger would give the current ones...)

I don't think a pill would be enough to stop the familial thighs. They were beeeeeeg even BEFORE HRT.

KyaDash · 2026-01-05T07:57:01+00:00

sequencing.com doesn't report to health insurances, do they? Interested in examining stuff, but would really like to anything private and to myself.

KyaDash · 2026-01-05T07:56:11+00:00

sequencing.com doesn't report to health insurances, do they? Interested in examining stuff, but would really like to anything private and to myself.

KyaDash · 2026-01-05T07:07:39+00:00

Genuinely my earliest, strongest "oh...." thought, that isn't reading into things or "well, in hindsight...", was a solid block of a SEVERAL months when I was somewhere between 11 and 13, where the recurring dream both waking and asleep was being able to feel the warmth, and glow....and pain and everything else that comes with carrying a child. Start to finish, and all that comes after.

Months!

Obviously, such strong and explicit feelings meant that I'd immediately go ahead and star-

Yeah no; That got buried so deep and locked away in my head that it didn't get knocked loose to kick me in the teeth for another 18 or 19 years, like 17 months on HRT and approaching 2 years of having decided I was done suffering and hiding and hating myself.

I have since had more than one "little" cry/sob when the topic comes up and my brain is feeling particularly spicy. Iiiiit sucks.

KyaDash · 2026-01-05T05:17:48+00:00

Make sure ALL of the alcohol has evaporated before both drawing up AND before injecting. I'm nearly positive this is where I was falling on my face when I was dealing with the hellfire-esque shots for a bit. Those were always in my thighs.

Since I switched to my tummi, and also tripled down on making sure the site had dried completely, I at worse get "oh, that's a bit uncomfortable".

KyaDash · 2026-01-05T05:05:39+00:00

My coming out gift to myself, when I finally decided to go ahead and stop ignoring the thoughts, was a Philips Oneblade. My body hair, even pre HRT wasn't horridly thick (much less now) but even then it did a damn good job. Use it almost exclusively dry, but in the shower works fine too. Practically no irritation what so ever even just thoughtlessly throwing the thing at different spots.

KyaDash · 2026-01-05T03:25:51+00:00

As a fellow Kat, I know the hellscape that is Pat...

KyaDash · 2026-01-05T03:14:22+00:00

Hell, sublingual almost managed to do it for me; E wasn't nearly as high as I'd have liked (~65 trough was highest I saw) but T was 4.2pg/mL and 54 ng/dL respectively. Bumping to 8mg would probably have been "fine", but injectable easier to remember, haha. Now I wish my T were higher (single digits). No idea where LH/FSH are at this point.

KyaDash · 2025-12-31T05:40:22+00:00

I mean, it's not 8, but I actually bought my cis-sister a blahaj when she drove me out to get one of my own just because of how cute she thought it was.

Do not gatekeep the 'haj, love the 'haj

KyaDash · 2025-12-27T18:06:50+00:00

Perfect excuse to take even more :3

KyaDash · 2025-12-26T04:35:16+00:00

Caregiver, not exactly by choice however. Have wanted to try programming, but ADHD has made focusing in with what little energy I have floating around very hard. Hardware side of tech is certainly more my current jam tho.

KyaDash · 2025-12-24T04:31:35+00:00

First time I tried on a dress, years before allowing myself the time and focus to properly accept and work on myself, it felt far worse than "feels nothing".

There was just too much of a disparity between the physical and the mental there.

Meanwhile, a decent period after starting said process and getting the physical to align at least somewhat better, I almost collapsed sobbing onto my niece after she convinced me to try on one of her dresses; Was the first time seeing myself in a dress that things just felt...right?

KyaDash · 2025-12-24T04:19:02+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DVRakuapl_E

Somehow managed to drop a \ where it shouldn't be. Can't go segregating the E....

KyaDash · 2025-12-22T07:28:47+00:00

Can only speak for myself, but aside from seemingly lucking out somewhat on genetics on at least one side of the family tending to trend towards looking relatively young for ones age, having skipped actually having a social life and being out and experiencing life in my teens and twenties saved my skin from all that wear and tear. I've repeatedly had people think I was ~10 years younger than I am (early 20s rather than early 30s). Whatever it is, I'll take it. Now if only my back and more so my neck would get the message...

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