Do you have to get used to your new appearence on hormone therapy ?

[itsApril]

One thing I wonder a lot about : do you have to get used to the changes hrt causes? Getting used to your new appearence I mean?
. . . However I'm very determined that I need estrogen and a blocker to relieve the dysphoria that got very badly at this point : suicidal thoughts , moodiness , agressiveness ,...
I hope the changes are gradual enough ....
Also ... Is your way of thinking about this changing on hormones?

Hormonally-induced changes are gradual over months and years if you're talking about the physical changes like breast growth, fat redistribution, changes in muscle mass, etc.  These changes don't happen overnight, so you have plenty of time to adapt to them.

I've noticed that people who had high levels of distress from gender dysphoria often report rapid (and usually welcome) changes in their emotional state.  I'm no doctor, but I think the rapid emotional change for these folks isn't so much a product of the hormones themselves, as it is a sense of relief that they feel they have finally taken a major step forward towards resolution of their gender issues.

In my case, the changes caused by HRT were not something to fear.  I like the changes.  HRT has softened some of my rough edges in a way that I like.

[iKate]

Oh btw I AM at peace with myself. I look in the mirror I see ME. Minus the little dangly thing that's going byebye In a year or so and what I'm fixing with FFS I love myself. People may call me ugly or whatever but I'm still a woman and I still look good to me. And I still blend and pass like nobody's business.