So I've been on heavy Spiro for a year and low estradiol for about a month (my endo wants to move my estrogen up every 3 months to ease my body into the E pool since I'm 40)
Anywho, I was feeling better emotionally on Spiro but just the one month on low estradiol and wow! My nipples are puffy and my breast ache as they are growing already. So much so that my wife took me sports bra shopping. I know its strange but I love owning my own bras and that I wear a bra daily even if it is just a sports bra for now. Seems silly but feels so right.
I'm already feeling more at peace and calm. I stopped taking my antidepressants 2 weeks ago and I'm doing great. Which is amazing since I've been on them for 15 years and whenever I stopped taking them, within 3 days I was a jerk and my wife could tell I wasn't taking them.
My wife and I are closer and for the first time ever, EVERYTHING is out in the open and she has fully accepted that I have GID. More and more she can see that we are just like two women in love and committed to each other with a small child. Our sex life has disappeared for now and has been replaced my cuddling and occasionally long passionate kisses. She gave me one of her vibrators and for now we both have that option should we choose (solo for now). But she feels it will be a little while until she can start to feel comfortable with us having sex as two women would. Which I can understand as its a change after 20 years together but she has come MUCH further than I ever could have hoped. So there is hope girls!
I guess HRT does wonders sometimes as I always hoped. I am not sure what more is in store for me physically but the emotional benefits so far have made it so worth it that any physical developments and improvements are icing on the cake. I looked much like Carrie before HRT and she has blossomed so well that it gives me hope. I'm on a major diet to help the physical improvements along.
I'm not sure if I'll ever fully transition but for now I am just taking it day by day.
I know this sounds a lot like so many other early HRT posts but just had to share.
Hugs
Kay