trans rites of passage: first pill on HRT.

[Emmaline]

Well after exactly one year to the day from my 'uh-oh..." moment  I am clear to start HRT.  This coming monday.  So yay.

But I would like to hear your stories about your first pill.  Did you wait for a special day?   Have a ritual?  Neck that little biatch as fast as the chemist could hand it to you?

[Jessica Merriman]

  Neck that little biatch as fast as the chemist could hand it to you?

Before walking out of the Pharmacy. Sure gave him his laugh for the day!

[ath]

I wasn't as bold as Jessica, lol. Still took them promptly, though.

After I left the pharmacy with my pills I took them as soon as I got in my car. Swallowed my spiro and stuck an estradiol tab in my cheek.

I've pretty much felt the best I have in my entire life since then - there is no reason to wait for some special occasion - getting your hormones is a special occasion. Why delay something so great?

[noleen111]

I get my lady juice via injections... i remember the first shot... I did not even mind the prick.. i swore i could feel the estrogen flowing out of the needle.. i was so excited to start my new life.

[ath]

I get my lady juice via injections... i remember the first shot... I did not even mind the prick.. i swore i could feel the estrogen flowing out of the needle.. i was so excited to start my new life.

I switched to injections almost 3 weeks ago - I definitely prefer it to sublingual estrogen. I feel more stable, for sure, not to mention the much increased breast tenderness, hot itchyness, breast pain, etc. I'll be injecting myself again tomorrow.

[Emjay]

Did you wait for a special day?

For me, getting them *was* the special day!!

I do remember setting all of the bottles out on the counter when I got home that day and just looking at them for a few minutes before taking them.  Taking a deep breath and thinking "this is it".

It was such a good day! 

[Jessica Rush]

After getting my script to fill I raced to the nearest pharmacy and filled that thing out!

Once I got my pills I ran to my car and popped both in my mouth! Drove the rest of the way home so euphoric!

[Hideyoshi]

August 20, 2012

still have the picture of the first little pill sitting on the computer desk

[Jenna Marie]

Patch, but I stuck it on as soon as I got home.

[Shodan]

Yup. Didn't wait to go home before taking my pills. Had to take them on the drive home.

[Rachel]

I was going to take them in the Pharmacy, then in the paring garage, than as soon as I got home. I thought for a few hours, 4 or 5, "are you really sure" yup.

[stephaniec]

so how fast can you say Rumpelstiltskin

[f_Anna_tastic]

October 3rd 2013, a yellow progynova pill.  Still have the photograph of it in my hand

It's a great feeling

NO DOSES

[Vicki]

For me, getting them *was* the special day!!

I do remember setting all of the bottles out on the counter when I got home that day and just looking at them for a few minutes before taking them.  Taking a deep breath and thinking "this is it".

It was such a good day! 

I did the same thing, it took me a minute to take it all in before I took my first pill. From there the journey began! I felt like I was on a cloud for the rest of the week

[Alainaluvsu]

I remember I had been putting off getting on HRT for about a year. Well the day passed when it was the 1 year point that I called the therapist for my first appointment, and since LSU never called me back to set up a dr appointment, I ordered online. About a week after that I went to the DMV to take my last male picture ID. I looked at it and said "This will be the last license I have where I look male". Well, that was true! A week later I got my drugs and popped em in as soon as I got them.

Here's a picture of me with my first E pill in my mouth under my tounge, taken on August 19th, 2011:



Oh, and for the record, 2 weeks later I called a private endo and set up an appointment to get on something I could get from a pharmacy

[@Diana]

i first started with injection & pills together when i was around 19 .... i got all info from my senior trans friend .. and yes, i was so excited to start a journey with that my 1st pill lol .. and from that moment, my life had changed drastically in a better way i wouldn't expect it to be 

[Jenny07]

I waited a day before taking it unlike all you others who couldn't wait 5 seconds.
Looked at the box that night and made it to lunch time before going WTF.

Must be something wrong with me.
Oh that's right I'm trans.

What a wonderful feeling such a little blue m&m can make.

J

[Ms Grace]

Can't remember my first first time...that was well over twenty years ago. No doubt I was extremely impatient to get started.

My second first time was perhaps tempered by that experience, as keen as I was to get started I knew a couple hours wasn't going to make any difference in the grand scheme of things...waited until I got home and had dinner before popping the pill.

[V M]

The moment I got home and shut the door behind me

[defective snowflake]

March 20, 2004 was when it was. Took one as soon as I got home.