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Okay, so as I mentioned in a previous thread a bazillion years ago (
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,104347.0.html), I have something wrong with my reproductive system.
The gyn I went to six months ago ignored me, acted like I was some ignorant child, and prescribed me progesterone without ever really talking to me. When that did nothing (the goal was to make me have a period), she immediately prescribed me a birth-control pill that was specifically chosen because it didn't make girls have lighter periods without even calling to talk to me or having me come into the office for another appointment. Without knowing what it was, I took the pills like I was supposed to for two weeks, but after literally not sleeping at all those weeks(which increased my stress levels and made my hallucinations worse) and having an extreme pain in my abdomen as though my organs were being shredded, I finally read the package. Apparently, it was a fairly highish dosage of estradiol and some other form of estrogen mixed together. Also, the package noted that it would take being on the pills for about 3 months before side effects would begin to subside. Since I was only supposed to be on it for 1 month and was already going crazy and suicidal from the side effects, I stopped. I never went to that doctor again.
Then I figured out that I'm not going to be allowed to start T until we figure out what's going on inside me. My gender therapist was able to talk to a doctor friend of her's and so was able to refer me to a trans-friendly gynecologist. Even though he had never had a trans patient before and didn't really know anything about it, the doctor was very open-minded, friendly, and professional. I had to have a pelvic exam, but he was quite professional and was very fast (the exam took much less than a minute). Then, though he would occasionally turn to explain something to my mother, he mainly talked to me, and treated me as a patient and a person.
His idea was to start me on a hormone regimen that would mimic the natural menstrual cycle - 28 days of estrogen, the last 10 of which I would also take progesterone- and then a week of nothing. I was instructed to, after I've waited that extra week, call him and report whether or not anything happened (unlike the other doctor
). If I don't have a period, then he'll do an ultrasound to see what's going on internally. If I do, then I'll get the go ahead for T. This whole time I've been fighting with myself inside my head over the estrogen, because I want to get this all over with so I can get T, but I don't want to be feminized, but it's a super low dosage and is in gel form, so that's unlikely. He chose the gel so that I won't get the terrible pain and sleeplessness like I did with the other stuff. But, when I started taking the estrogen (one packet rubbed in each morning), I started getting the same "side effects" I got whenever I had an elevated level of female hormones from actually having a period. That is, I get super cold and will be shivering even if it's in the mid-seventies(unlike my normal condition of usually being hot), and I'm just generally bitchy. Like most side effects, those started after a few days, but since those are what I was always like when my levels were elevated, I didn't mind too much.
However, just about 2 weeks into the regimen (I start the progesterone in just a few more days), I accidentally skipped a dosage of E and didn't remember until the next morning when it was time to take the next dose. I couldn't take more than one dose in a day, so I just left it alone. Strangely enough, after the brief lapse in added E, my body suddenly seemed to start rejecting the E. I started getting the way I normally am, but even more so. So, normally I'm hot at any temperature above 70, suddenly I'm sweating at anything above 50. Also, my amount of body hair started increasing along with getting several whiskery facial hairs at once along my jawline. Whereas normally, I'll occasionally get 1 whisker at a time on some random part of my face.
My question is: I know that if you take too much T, some of it can be converted back into Estrogen, but is it possible that some of this added Estrogen is being converted into T?
