Taking 2x the estradiol

[Jenny_B_Good]

My primary concern is elevating testosterone levels by taking too much E, but I have not seen anything documented on it.  Just from heresay...

It's well documented that the body's balancing act is in play with hormones as well.

Ever heard of body builders that get "bitch tits". This happens when too much T is injected and the body converts to the opposite hormone to protect it from damage.

Jenn

[Stephe]

I think a good analogy is the boiling a live frog one. If done slowly the body doesn't react in a way we don't want it to.  If I  was going to double my E, I would be doing it over a period of a month or so, not just start taking 2X the dosage the next day. I think too many people want to try to force this second puberty to happen over a period of 6 months to a year. My goal is to take the minimum amount of meds that produce results.  If it takes 2-3 years to get the "final results", that's more of a normal time period for changes like this to occur. I don't think the "shock treatment" plans are a good idea.

[Shantel]

I think a good analogy is the boiling a live frog one. If done slowly the body doesn't react in a way we don't want it to.  If I  was going to double my E, I would be doing it over a period of a month or so, not just start taking 2X the dosage the next day. I think too many people want to try to force this second puberty to happen over a period of 6 months to a year. My goal is to take the minimum amount of meds that produce results.  If it takes 2-3 years to get the "final results", that's more of a normal time period for changes like this to occur. I don't think the "shock treatment" plans are a good idea.

Stephe is correct! Any medications that will make a drastic change in one's physiology or mental wiring have to be ramped up slowly under medical supervision just like some of the anti-anxiety meds have to be because they are psychotropic drugs that change brain wiring. I have known two MtF people who knew better but desiring to see quicker results they took excessive amounts of estrogen and gave themselves deep vein thromboesis ( blood clots), one had a stroke the other a heart attack and died. The other is learning to walk and talk again with her entire left side sagging and dragging. There is no cure for willful stupidity, you have received a lot of good advice in this thread, use it wisely!