Worried HRT isn't working

[galaxy]

Looks like no growth ... why dont you do an augmentation?

[kelly_aus]

Looks like no growth ... why dont you do an augmentation?

Could it be a lack of money?
Could it be a lack of existing breast to augment?
Could it be the small problem that anaesthesia like to try and kill me?

Or could it just be that it makes no real difference to me?

[AnnaCannibal]

Could it be a lack of money?
Could it be a lack of existing breast to augment?
Could it be the small problem that anaesthesia like to try and kill me?

Or could it just be that it makes no real difference to me?

Well, you look happy and that's the most important thing I think. 

[Megan Joanne]

You look fine Kelly-aus. Afterall, while many of us may want biggest breasts (I certainly do), they don't make a woman.

I started hormones, injectable estradiol valerate back in May 2001 (missed 2 years and some months in between though), today I still only just fit in an A cup. Last year was my biggest breast growth, that's when I finally filled out my bras better. Most of my years on hormones I was shopping the smallest size I could find, basically training bras. Sometimes it just takes a while, a long while.

[missymay]

Hi SophiaF,
I agree that 4 months is not a lot of time, if I remember correctly, I think my breasts were really sore at 3 months. and my body hair was thinning, skin was getting softer. The changes are gradual, but you will start to notice more differences over time.  And if you don't enough feminization from HRT, surgery will get you where you want to be. 

[Cindy]

Funny I was reviewing a paper yesterday on breast growth in trans*women in Europe and there was a statement that most trans*women in the survey were unhappy with the degree of breast development, the average development was to an A cup and 70% sought BA at some time.

[galaxy]

Thats right ... most of the women i know go to BA and most of them dont have an A or AA.

[Autumn Faith]

Ok I would like to ask a question here as I am dumb as a nail to HRT. I moved away from my family and son to be more myself. And yes we are still close but they wouldn't understand and my son is a adult now.  I'm very ok with that. My question is I DON'T want a 42 DD. Can you stop and keep what you have at any point? Also do you have to deal with a doctor to get medication or is there other routes?  I live in a rural area and we'll to be honest..... I just don't want to go thru the headaches.

[Hikari]

Ok I would like to ask a question here as I am dumb as a nail to HRT. I moved away from my family and son to be more myself. And yes we are still close but they wouldn't understand and my son is a adult now.  I'm very ok with that. My question is I DON'T want a 42 DD. Can you stop and keep what you have at any point? Also do you have to deal with a doctor to get medication or is there other routes?  I live in a rural area and we'll to be honest..... I just don't want to go thru the headaches.

There are informed consent clinics, it doesn't have to be an endocrinologist, but they will still usually send you to get blood tests done by a doctor, just they aren't all gate keeper like some doctors are.

While the likelyhood of a 42DD is pretty low, AFAIK they will grow until your body says enough so long as you take estrogen. If you just stopped taking HRT all of the really nice things like the different skin and whatnot would stop, and T would take control again (or if you had T factories removed, you would lose bone density until you got some sex hormone back in your system)....Ciswomen don't get to choose their size, and many do opt for a reduction for various reasons. In any case it is very unlikely to get such a big result so, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

[RosieD]

Ok I would like to ask a question here as I am dumb as a nail to HRT. I moved away from my family and son to be more myself. And yes we are still close but they wouldn't understand and my son is a adult now.  I'm very ok with that. My question is I DON'T want a 42 DD. Can you stop and keep what you have at any point? Also do you have to deal with a doctor to get medication or is there other routes?  I live in a rural area and we'll to be honest..... I just don't want to go thru the headaches.

No love, you can't stop it.  You get what you get and that may be tiny, back-breakingly huge or somewhere in between.

To answer your other question, you don't HAVE to go through a doctor but given the widespread effects of HRT across all the body's systems it is (to understate things a bit) a fair bit safer to have someone who knows what to test and what the readings from the tests mean advising you.

Rosie

[Autumn Faith]

Ok thank you both. At times I wish I lived in the usa. I believe it would make things easier as many have gone before me to pave the way. While it may be common in Toronto or Vacouver.... the rest of the country at times still seems like it's in the dark ages.

[Handy]

Give it time, four months is nothing. You're probably just on a super tiny dose; Endos are notoriously conservative at the start of transition.

I've been on for more than a year and my boobs are still small. It takes years to achieve any substantial development.