Are you happy or unhappy with results of HRT

[Carrie Liz]

I don't think that I could have reasonably expected HRT to do more. It did all that it could have done and then did some more with my huge bulky pre-transition body to change it into a female-typical body. It's out of the realm of possibility to have expected it to do more. They gave me boobs, they gave me a feminine body shape, they gave me soft skin, they feminized my face and fat and muscles, almost completely regrew my balding head of hair, and they're keeping all of those things that way so that I'll never have to have nightmares of turning back into a man again.

I do really wish it could have done more, though.

I want the impossible. I want to be cis. I want my body to become COMPLETELY 100% cisnormative. Hormones can't do that. They can only get me part of the way there.

So yeah... hormones did everything I was expecting them to do. I just wish they could do more.

[Lady_Oracle]

Voted yes absolutely! It's been life changing in every way possible but it took time and lots of patience. The first few years of hrt was like awkward teenager land all over again but eventually that went away.

Initially when I started, my only expectation was wanting to feel better but my results have been more than I could have ever hoped for. I caught myself just in time I think because its almost as if I started hrt at like 15 or something.

[stephaniec]

I'm totally surprised and grateful that they've done what they have done , but I'm greedy so the more the better. Being my age I very pleasantly surprised.

[JoanneB]

The BIG Happy    for me has not been primarily the physical changes, but the emotional ones. Sure, it is nice actually seeing a body I can mostly like living in. But the overall effect HRT has had on me emotionally I give about all the credit for why I am alive today

[Newgirl Dani]

I am very satisfied with the results both physically and emotionally.  Best ride ever and I have never been happier or felt more like my real self.

Most evident in your smile Tessa 


Being this age gives me a long term perspective and my few doubts have faded and my fears have diminished.  This is the right course for my new life as yes, a happy girl.

[Newgirl Dani]

The BIG Happy    for me has not been primarily the physical changes, but the emotional ones. Sure, it is nice actually seeing a body I can mostly like living in. But the overall effect HRT has had on me emotionally I give about all the credit for why I am alive today

I could not agree with anything more Joanne, not if I tried!  My life was so entirely dire (after a 30+ year long life of 'do or die dope fiend life) that I had to reach a point where living was impossible.  I had a life of NO emotion, cold, stark, b&w, analytical to the point of turning every single happening that could show who I was into a non-issue, thereby eliminating introspection.  HRT, opened my heart, believe me it caused many, many problems as I did not know how to live AND feel.  If it was needed, it would take an entire book chapter to expain this, what is profoundly nice is that here one does not need to.  Luv this statement of yours in so many ways.   Dani

[Newgirl Dani]

The first few years of hrt was like awkward teenager land all over again

Lady O, this was indeed something that kind of stopped me in my tracks for a moment.  For me, this would have been a treasure, I know that sounds odd, but it is true.  My childhood was one of isolation, I was an island that did not connect with anything or anyone, with one exception, my love for the woods which were my only companions.  What I'm trying to say is that because there was 'no' true connections with other kids, I had no awkward "teenager land."  I call this a treasure because in my first year or so of hrt, this would have provided a very nice signpost to reflect back on, a thing to strive for, reliving and mending.  But for me it was totally absent.  This is big, and I feel those now, never far away tears lurking in the background (a very nice and good thing though).  Thank You!   Dani

[Fara]

I'm about 1.5mths on HRT, I've been very happy so far.  But ouch... my girls just started budding about 4-5 days ago.. before that they had grown a bit but were soft to the touch, now they're both hard as a rock and constantly tender with erect nipples.  But yeah happy