Here's an interesting concept I haven't seen talked about very much....... Weight loss surgery......and HRT. Almost 8 years ago, I had weight loss surgery. Called the MGB for Mini Gastric Bypass. I was 334 pounds, and now hover in the 160's. I have now been on MTF HRT for 2 months. For one, I have been curious to see if my body absorbs it properly, maybe less, maybe more because of my bypass. I'm supposed to go in for follow up blood tests in about a month to see how my actual levels are. But knowing that the reason the surgery helped me lose weight, is largely because it was designed to allow the food I eat to bypass parts of the intestine that absorb so much. It is the malabsorbtive properties that make it work so well. So even thought I take my estrogen sublingually, and therefore that shouldn't be affected by the bypass...The Spiro I still swallow, so that could be affected.
The other thing I wanted to mention, in sticking with the theme of the thread..........As far as fat redistribution goes.....I have been curious to see how my body would respond to HRT having already been significantly overweight in the past, but being normal weight now. I'm curious to see if my body has a tendency to distribute fat differently because of the fat cell history within my body. I already have a lot of saggy loose skin from so much weight loss. I'm very curious to see if any of it fills back in, and hopefully in the right places. Even when I was at my heaviest, my body weight was pretty evenly distributed and not mostly in my stomach area like a lot of men. So I'm hoping that fat will find itself going to my butt, thighs and breasts mostly. But we shall see. Not enough transgender weight loss surgery people out there to really get an idea of what to expect.