Going off HRT for two weeks: What to expect?

[Apples Mk.II]

So my endo has agreed to change my HRT to new drugs and dosages, but only after making a two weeks stop to "clean" the system and take a new baseline blood analysis. Today is day #01. It's been 11 hours since my last espiro and estradiol pill, and things will be that way until The 31st. That day I just need to go to the endocrinology unit again, let them draw blood and I can get back to doing the Pac-Man (We discussed other methods, but I did not want patches and he did not want shots).

We agreed to start the clean-up after I finished with my interview, to prevent mood / feeling awful / whatever at a critical point. He believes that after 7.5 months (1 year if you count the antiandrogens) I should not get any reversal to androgenic factors in just two weeks, but it's pretty clear that things won't be nice on the mind again.

What can I expect? I've never felt anything like a "feel good" sensation from estrogen, or getting suddenly emotional (that did not happen until last month), just being less aggressive. I can only guess I will be feeling more gloomy and on edge for anything I can see as male, or getting chills from looking at the mirror again...

The only positive thing I can see is that I can take it as a test experience of what will be to stop before surgeries...

[Ms Grace]

You might start lactating. That happened to me when I came off them.

[Sammy]

Do You have to go off from anti-androgens too? When my liver started to make itself known, I stopped taking estradiol pills for one week, but kept taking Spiro and I did not feel a sudden emotional drop or mood swings (my E levels were not great to start with anyway, but my T was extremely low).

[Apples Mk.II]

Do You have to go off from anti-androgens too? When my liver started to make itself know, I stopped taking estradiol pills for one week, but kept taking Spiro and I did not feel a sudden emotional drop or mood swings (my E levels were not great to start with anyway, but my T was extremely low).

Yes, I guess the purpose is to see how my t levels behave without an AA, before calculating my dosage with something so powerful as androcur.

Which it is going to be so weird since my libido is already at pre-hrt mode right now, wet dreams and everything.

You might start lactating. That happened to me when I came off them.

Squeezed them on sunday day, just in case. A bit of ooze in one, a tiny micro drop of blood in the other. Maybe sweating or a lot of rubbing against clothes and putting backpacks all the time.

[Sammy]

Well, I would not expect sudden androginisation, but those two weeks could be crappy

[Ms Grace]

Squeezed them on sunday day, just in case. A bit of ooze in one, a tiny micro drop of blood in the other. Maybe sweating or a lot of rubbing against clothes and putting backpacks all the time.

I'd really recommend you not do that, just let them sort themselves out or you could end up causing a duct blockage which will get infected. When it happened to me it was spontaneous and random - went on for about two weeks - it's not something you want to encourage by trying to expressing milk.