Definite Changes for HRT within a month

[PBP]

Hi everyone,

I'm not entirely sure how to phrase this so apologies for the potentially misleading title. I've been on HRT for nearly two weeks now. I appear to have noticed two things- fewer erections and lower libido. What I want to know, however, is what things should happen in the short term that tell me something is going on? Things that I won't mistake for just a phase, eg mental wellbeing for example.

I'm just a bit nervous about how quickly everything is going to happen.

[DawnOday]

In the short term I experience a profound change mentally. It could be attributed to revealing the secret I carried around for 64 years and lifting the weight off my shoulders. But it appears the hormones were able to do whatever the anti depressant had not. Four and a half months later my breasts have become rounder, the nipples more sensitive, my butt is getting rounder and starting to fill out my guy jeans. I may have to switch to ladies jeans soon. I am also starting to see my waist is relocating due to fat redistribution. My hair once plentiful had fallen on hard times. Since starting HRT my hair is growing like weeds, Your results may be different in that we all are different in many ways. As far as libido, it probably has more to do with the Spiro reducing your testosterone.

[AshleyP]

I've been on HRT for nearly two weeks now. I appear to have noticed two things- fewer erections and lower libido. What I want to know, however, is what things should happen in the short term that tell me something is going on?

You've already experienced more than I have. I've been on HRT for a little more than a month and nothing has happened. As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm on what I'd characterize as a medium oral dose of E and a medium-low dose of Spiro. As is widely noted, YMMV.

All the best,
--AshleyP

[Artesia]

Been on HRT for about 4 months.  No real libido to speak of, though recently I have been getting aroused again, just not like it use to be.  My hair is growing in and the bald spot is almost completely gone, but my hair is still thin and the receding hairline didn't come back much.  Nothing has happened with the rear for me, the moobs are very sensitive, and might have gone up a size, but I can't really tell.  The biggest change was in my mind, I'm a bit calmer now, people around me say that I look happier, I don't wake up in the morning thinking "crap, I woke up" I no longer am driven to read/watch gender swap porn or retreat into my video games where I am playing female characters.  I still like the video games, I just no longer have the unrelenting drive to escape into it.  I also am now having real conversations with my wife, when before the games and computer were where I went to escape my life by living in the stories of others.  Weight loss has been a bear, can't get below a certain point.