What was it like on your early days on HRT

[Brenda E]

After a few days, when my t blockers started being effective i felt like a nail had been pulled out of my foot.

I misread that the first time.  I thought you were talking about a toenail being pulled out of your foot - unpleasant!  Just got what you were talking about.  Makes sense now.

[KayXo]

it's just trading a boring male life for a boring female life.

Boring? Definitely not boring for me since I transitioned...but was boring as male, was going through the motions and felt "dead". Transition made things more interesting, more alive but with greater highs and lows as well. Still no regrets though.

[Heather]

I just meant I'm basically living doing the same stuff. I am happier but I don't think that's because of my gender it's because I'm free to be myself. I try not to overhype transition for the people starting out and say that really transitioning is not everything and gender is such a small part of life. And shouldn't be seen as a fix for problems or depression..

[KayXo]

But if the reason you're depressed or have problems is because you aren't living in your proper gender or don't feel free to express yourself and suddenly you are, then transitioning to your proper gender and finally expressing yourself will make a world of a difference.

Most of it though is in the head, then changing to the correct gender physically is the icing on the cake. That's how I see it anyways.

[Ltl89]

Really, very little changed during my early days of hrt.  I was relieved to be starting it but hormones take a very long time and I came out to my mother shortly after this which took away for the relief as she was very upset.  In terms of effects, most were minimal except this placebo like euphoria that I started to have after taking my estrogen.