Thinking about quitting

[Naturally Blonde]

Ah, ok.  So now we've finally realized - after four pages of posts! - that this thread is about quitting hormones and not quitting being female, let me ask the most obvious question:

What does your doctor say about this?

(And another question that needs to be asked: what did your doctor say in the past about your dissatisfaction with the effects of HRT?  Did he adjust doses, medications, etc. to try to produce more feminine fat redistribution?)

Doctor? covers a multitude of options, do you mean my GP or psychiatrist? or someone else?

My GP agrees with me that I don't have a female shape, my psychiatrist doesn't know enough about meds and I don't have an endocrinologist or specialist who is more familiar with the meds. With meds it's trial and error on my part and most endo's I've seen in the past are quite negative and say there's nothing I can do about it. I only have myself to rely on to try new ideas and meds.

[Beverly]

I'll give you my number you can hear my voice for yourself.

No thank you. The call would not go well...

Are you sure you are older than me?

If the picture is genuine then yes, I am older than you. Probably by 20 years or so

Most of the time I pass but I still get the odd episode where I don't.

In that case I fail to see what you are complaining about. Anyway, I will leave you to it. Good luck in your journey and I hope you manage to find acceptance within yourself.

[Brenda E]

Doctor? covers a multitude of options, do you mean my GP or psychiatrist? or someone else?

Don't be obtuse.  We're only trying to help.  Obviously, the doctor prescribing the hormones.

My GP agrees with me that I don't have a female shape, my psychiatrist doesn't know enough about meds and I don't have an endocrinologist or specialist who is more familiar with the meds. With meds it's trial and error on my part and most endo's I've seen in the past are quite negative and say there's nothing I can do about it. I only have myself to rely on to try new ideas and meds.

Have you gone to an endo specializing in TG care?

Or a nutritionist?  Are you eating properly?  Is your body supposed to be naturally bigger than you're making it, because most of us look far better when a little plumper.

If so, it looks like you've probably gone as far as HRT can take you.  You could try quitting the meds on a trial basis.  Next steps would be the plastic surgeon (expensive) or learning to accept who you are.  I don't know what else to suggest.

[Joanna Dark]

I am of the opinion that hormones don't work and for the majority of TS woman this is a normal occurrence that they don't pass all the time. I've met a lot of TS women over the years (over here in the U.K) and I haven't seen anyone who strikes me as physically looking female. 

Over in the USA you have shots (HRT injections) which are not legal over here but shots may be better than the tablets we get over here? I tried for ages to try and get some but could get them. I also haven't tried Spiro (anti-androgens) which I also can't get over here. We can only get Androcur and Zoladex (or Decapeptyl).

Without AAs, I am of the opinion that HRT does not work. You need to suppress T with AAs. Otherwise, the T is being suppressed by E, which renders it's other feminization qualities useless, since all it's doing is suppressing T. And that's just free or total T there is other T that will convert to it's ugly half breed cousin DHT. For two months, I only used E, at a higher dose, and P, but only for one month, and maybe it's just in my head, but I swear I started masculinizing, started masturbating which I hadn't done in ages, had erections (sorry if this is TMI but I need to say it to help explain and trust me I don't like thinking about it), and I gained ten pounds. Now, after three weeks of the same does of E and the near max dose of Spiro, I feel I look almost completely different and def female. I don't wear makeup sometimes, and even was unshaved yesterday, but the spiro slows facial hair growth big time, so...anyhoo, nobody looked at me weird or said a thing and I walked by two women having a convo. They didn't give me a second look or even bat an eyelash. Also, there were no whispers when I went in the stall.

As far as never seeing one TS who passed or looked physically female, well, if someone looked totally female howwould you know they were TS if you didn'tknow them. Maybe in the circle you travelled becuase o fthe lack of AAs no one looked female, but I am 5'5, 120 lbs, Am a 32D, and look decidedly female. I think I'm still being clocked residually from the prior experiment (AAs  costed too much and I didn't call insurance company, stupid stupid stupid me) but everyone I meet and talk to addresses me as she and her. But maybe those whispers I hear every once in awhile lately, and the last one was "no, she's a girl, look at her" maybe that's allin my head. My whtever he is FWB/BF A-Hole says guys walk by me and stare all the time, particuarly at my boobs. I'm going to dump him as i have had enough and I can better, but that's a story for another day. I dont sdeserve the lack of respect and can't save him from himself and refuse to go down with the ship.

I have been on HRT since Sept. 25, not even a year. I was on for 7 months before that but at a veyr very low dose and almost no AAs, so I shouldnt count that too much and then with the last couple months, I'm just going to say I have been on them for 10months. Seems right. Does it?

[Jessica Merriman]

This topic has run it's course. A lot of good advice has been given and argued with.

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