Yeah, I'll bite, hormone saftety, even with proper supervision and medical supervisionit is a subject I'm all to familiar with on personal levels and medical experience and I think even the idea of self medication is a rejection of mental competency. ie dummer then rock bottom stupidity.
Quoteif anything i've noticed that i'm a lot less angry or aggressive.is this typical?
With only one week on hormones though I would have fully serious doubts you have any effects at all though for some time yet. I could be wrong, but not at all very likely so. Most take months before anything happens at all that can be seriously and objectively measured, both mental and physically.
that generally happens in most cases in male to female transitioners, but usually over an extended amount of time due to changes in the minds perception of living in a world that you were formally more affraid of because of trains of thought about it not being accepting of your wishes to transition and because of different ways of viewing the world about you and your new relationship with yourself. In short, you change and so your reactions to the world about you change, in some cases quite drastically, in others, little at all. It just depends on how and what kind of person you were before.
Keep in mind also that regardless of what others have told you about thier own dosages of the various drugs necessary that information may not be applicable to any other person in general. If I told you my exact medication and dosage information you would go a lifetime and never see any result at all unless it amounted to medical problems, if you took my dosage advice on what I was taking a couple of years ago you would probably be dead in less then a year. It all depends on the condition of your body and how it is equipped to handle such drugs, so unless you have been blood tested and the amounts customized to your body and needs you are simply spinning a wheel.
Then too there is simply the question of what you are taking and are you taking all you need and what you need to provide the proper body reactions. I can only assume you may have consulted people you have met or forums you have read where people talk about such things and may give thier own information or information they have heard from people who actually could not tell the difference from a premarin pill and an estrodiol or what the dosage of a premarin pill was from a quick glance at it. BELIEVE that statement. As Cassie already told you this is dangerous territory and those that don't enter into it with proper supervision are taking one of the greatest risks in thier lives even if they feel perfectly fine a few moments before the roof caves in.
Quote.i'm self medicating and i understand the risk,but i couldn't stand to not do it any longer.
Another one who doesn't have a clue about what they really want in life, how to achieve something worth achieving as an end result and despite that statement does not understand in the least the risks being taken.
In the first place consider that without going through proper channels it may become near or totally impossible to ever achieve surgery if that is what is ultimately desired if lacking the proper documentation of true GID condition and even if you later seek proper channels may make a therapyst or doctor hisitant of perscribing to you as you have already demonstrated a tendancy to be irresponsible in following proper instructions and dosages posing an ethical compromise to the Dr. who is ultimately responsible for your health and mental condition during Hormone use.
So you know about risks. Ok, I won't bother you and all you know about the many serious things that can happen, even under the best of medical supervision and care, Look around the threads about such things if you care for a refresher on this subject.
There is one big guestion you ultimately have to ask yourself. What is the purpose of your taking hormones. Are you looking to fix a problem in your life with the idea that this is the only thing you can do to be a happy functioning individual? or are you simply playing some silly self destructive game of wanting to look more "feminine". There is only one answer to this question that justifies the use of hormones dangerous or not.
Anyway as long as you already know what you are doing and are aware of all this risks I'll give you the only advice about it I can responsibly give. Take your self medicated chemicals and stuff then up some dark place rather then ruin yourself with them.
Don't take me as personally attacking you in anyway, but do to all extent believe that I am attacking and rejecting your methode of using hormones. It is insane and we see to many going through here who do not have a clue what they are doing and risking by self medication. Some here perfectly know better about such things, but then, what do those of us with the education, doctors advice, instruction and medical care and even some of the consiquences of dangerous hormone use possibilities know about anything? You do what you want and will, the rest of us will just go on being and becoming women living the real life of a woman with the ability and bodily function to do so in good health.
deep enough bite on the subject of self medication?
Terri
