For those who started hrt in middle age, what did it do for you?

[Vicky]

For ladies who started hrt in ancient age:

* What age did you start?

61

* Did it help your face look more feminine?

Less angular, forehead less fatty, cheeks rounder and softer.

* Help the texture of your hair?

Now baby fine and grey if I don't get my color job regularly

* Change the growth rate or texture of your body hair?

Even less, and twice a year shaving if that often

* Give you a more feminine figure?

Except for the beer gut I am still working off.  Hips & Boobs great!!

* Allow you visible breast growth?

42 B in girl shape, and at 38 months E have started growing again.

* Better align your feelings with your self-image?

40 months of finally getting the stuff working right.

[PaigeM]

* What age did you start?

44. It has been about 8 months now.


* Did it help your face look more feminine?

Yes.


* Help the texture of your hair?

No change, I luckily have a full head of thick hair.


* Change the growth rate or texture of your body hair?

Not so far. Still have to shave every couple of days.


* Give you a more feminine figure?

Not as yet.


* Allow you visible breast growth?

A little so far. Nowhere near an A cup yet.


* Better align your feelings with your self-image?

Hard to say. My wife has ALS and I am her full-time caregiver. I have a lot of depression issues related to that, on top of existing depression issues. Also, right after I first started HRT, I started worrying that I was making a huge mistake. I got over that, but I am not as confident as I was pre-HRT. Again, it may have more to do with my wife's illness. I am still in boy mode most of the time as caring for her leaves me exhausted. I am content to wait and let the hormones do their thing. It is going slowly, but in my current situation, that is okay.


Hope this helps,
Paige

[Stephe]

My gender therapist was concerned hrt would not do what I hoped due to the fact that I'm in middle age.

For ladies who started hrt in middle age:

* What age did you start?

50

* Did it help your face look more feminine?

Yes

* Help the texture of your hair?

No, mine already fell out

* Change the growth rate or texture of your body hair?

Yes, especially arms and legs. It looks like trunk is slowly decreasing? I had back lasered and it's gone. Didn't take much to kill it off.

* Give you a more feminine figure?

Yes

* Allow you visible breast growth?

Yes, a small B cup + still growing and I had ZERO boobage before. I mean totally flat chest.

* Better align your feelings with your self-image?

Yes, changed me into a kinder, less hostile person.

[kathy bottoms]

Started this summer.


* What age did you start? 61

* Did it help your face look more feminine? Softer skin and very minor change from fat depositl

* Help the texture of your hair?  Regrew a very little bit of fine blond hair, and at 61 it's gray.

* Change the growth rate or texture of your body hair?  Dramatically for me.  Chest hair is almost gone.

* Give you a more feminine figure?  A bit.

* Allow you visible breast growth?  Absolutely.  Even after loosing weight my breast are bigger.

* Better align your feelings with your self-image?  Have trouble when the E gets too low.  It makes me feel feminine (like I want to look

Kathy

[Eva Marie]

For ladies who started hrt in middle age:

* What age did you start?

around 47-48

* Did it help your face look more feminine?

yes, a bit

* Help the texture of your hair?

not really, i have mpb and it was on the way out.

* Change the growth rate or texture of your body hair?

hair growth slowed down dramatically on my body

* Give you a more feminine figure?

yes, my fat redistributed and my skin changed. When i look down I see a much more feminine body now.

* Allow you visible breast growth?

yes, i have some A cups now.

* Better align your feelings with your self-image?

i started low dose HRT to calm my dysphoria and the racing persistent thoughts in my head. I am bigender and I do have a female self image when in girl mode (and she's happy with the changes) so I guess my answer would be a qualified yes.

[JoanneB]

Just what do you call "Middle Age"? My wife is constantly reminding me I am NOT 29 y/o.  As far as my expectations:

• Piece of mind. I went on low dose HRT several times since my late teens in search of that elusive goal. Only to have the S#$%! scared out of me when I achieved it

What it did? 

• I started at around age 53. On HRT for 3 years now
• Better align my feelings and self image - You bet! See above. I started for the emotional relief. Never stopped like I had in the past.
• Anything hair related is a "Don't Care". MPB started at age 14. Never had much to start with, on top or on my body. If only on top grew as good as in my ears....
• If it weren't for a new employee ID pic I would not have realized the subtle changes that took place in my face after 2 years.
• Most dramic change was in my skin. No more oil gushing out of my pores. Much smoother. Best of all, not stinkin like a guy
• Being VERY prone to weight gain all my life, much of it going to my hips, thighs, and breasts; I lost about 40 pounds during the time I started. I have a good A cup, maybe a B. It depends on the bra. I stll have the big hips and butt. Though sitting on hard surfaces is a bit more of a pain now

[peky]

According to "dictionary Peky," as some dude in another thread labeled me  , middle age can be from 35 to 45 , or from 40 to 65, depending who you are talking about.

Like other labels this is but a societal construct with no bearing on biology.

I guess we could say there are pre pubescent and post pubescent humans.


Age has more to do with the state of your body and mind rather than the number of years after your birth.

Are you really 58, 43, or 62? What is really to be old? or young? physically? mentally?

[Joanna]

I started transition at 36, does that count?

Well for what its worth...


- what age did you start
*36 - I am now 13 months in

- Did it help make you face look for feminine?
*Yes it did, your complexion changes along with skin tone and texture.  I lost quite a bit of weight from my jaw and chin area.  My eyes appeared a lot more of a feature than they did before.  I recently had some FFS as I wanted to go fulltime without worrying too much about passing as I have a very public facing role

- Help the texture of your hair
*A bit.  It certainly makes your hair drier than before.  Hair became a little more glossy

- Change the growth rate of texture of your body hair?
*Yes.  I started epilating a few months after commencing HRT.  Now the hair on my legs and arms grows back much slower and so much more finer.  The hair is so weak you can pull it out with your fingers.  I epilate now every 14 days or so.  I have had to have some laser on my chest though.  I was a very hairy boy

- Give you are more feminine figure?
*Before I started HRT my stats were 42-35-35, 14 months in I now measure 36-28-36.  I have some curves, but I lost a lot of weight.  It didn't matter what I ate or if I exercised or not.  My body continues to change

- Allow you visible breast growth?
*Yes some, but not enough for my liking.  Losing weight has compromised breast growth I am sure of it.  I have an A cup and do have to wear a bra


- Better align your feelings with your self image?
* Absolutely.  I feel like I have woken up.  Emotions are switched on again.

[Jamie D]

* What age did you start?

At conception, unfortunately, they were the wrong hormones.  It started on the correct hormone is 2011, at the age of 55, low dosages, and continued for six months until health issue forced me to stop.

* Did it help your face look more feminine?

Nothing can help my face!

* Help the texture of your hair?

I have very fine hair.  Nothing changed.

* Change the growth rate or texture of your body hair?

I never had a lot of body hair, and hated what I had.  It did slow the growth (probably due to the AA I was on).

* Give you a more feminine figure?

If looking 5 months pregnant is feminine!  I need to continue to lose the excess weight. In the short time I was on hormones, I did recognize some development in the butt.

* Allow you visible breast growth?

Yes, but nature had given me a head start with noticeable gynecomastia.  Six months of low dose 17 beta estradiol by patch added about a cup size, and much more glandular tissue growth.

* Better align your feelings with your self-image?

Yes.  My self image, however, is not purely female.  I'd day 60-40 female over male.  The purpose of my HRT was to feminize and to address the dysphoria.  When I was forced to stop HRT, the dysphoria returned, but not as strong on most days.  Perhaps, because I shave less often.  Perhaps because I have started to accept the complexities of who I am.

[Lea]

Hi agfrommd,

* What age did you start?

57

* Did it help your face look more feminine?

It is beginning to.

* Help the texture of your hair? 

The rate of body hair growth has noticeably slowed. It has also gotten finer.  There is been no change to the hair on my head.

* Give you a more feminine figure? 

Too early to tell. Plus, I've been on an aggressive weight-loss program – so I'm seeing more change due to that than anything else.

* Allow you visible breast growth? 

Very, very little.

* Better align your feelings with your self-image? 

Yes and no. Psychologically I'm better off in most ways.  Depression and anxiety are down.  I'm far less disconnected.  My self image, however, includes what I see in the mirror – and I still don't like that!

[innainka]

Yep!!!  all that stuff!!! started at 44

[suzifrommd]

Thank you so much, all, for your helpful responses. Of the replies:

95% said it improved their feelings
84% said it improved their face
79% said it improved their body hair
79% also said it improved their figure
74% saw visible breast growth
47% saw improvements in the hair on their head.

[Joann]

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I'm not sure, this was me after 10 months of hrt, then I had ffs:

I think your cheeks look fuller now.

[Joann]

Why were you forced to stop HRT?