Quote from: Dietlind on November 08, 2018, 11:26:35 PM
Got my first four weeks supply of estrogen patches today. I am sporting the first one already, and wonder what the stuff will do to me!
Hi Deitlind, 09 November 2018
Mind if I call you Miss Kitty? Your avatar made me think of it.
I can't tell you what it'll do for you as everyone is different and may experience different changes. I can tell you this much, things will change.
I can also tell you some of what I have and am experiencing. I was 77 years young when I started HRT sans AA's (spiro). I was prescribed patches for Estradiol on 27 March 2018. I started them that day. Remember I'm a tad more seasoned than most folks that start HRT and I had problems with my prostate. Normally it should be the size of a walnut, mine was the size of a cocoanut. That made it very difficult to pee. I had been on Flomax for several years without much luck. Four days on the Estradiol patches and I was peeing like I did 20 years ago. Then I started to notice I was happier than I had been in many a moon. As time went on happiness kept increasing. About 16 days after starting HRT I had my orchiectomy. Thing started getting even better. I lost most of the male aggression I had been plagued with most of my life. I still had some residual aggression, the learned kind. That's going away as I unlearn these harmful traits. My boobs have started developing and I love having them. They are noticeable and I love it, even though I still look male. I'm having fun outing myself and it's fun watching folks look at me with confused looks on on their faces. Sometimes I think I'm having more fun than I deserve.
Enjoy the ride; be proud and happy for who and what you are. You have every right and responsibility to be happy. No one has the right to expect you to be otherwise. Yes, there will be those that don't like us; they don't even like themselves so don't concern yourself with those idiots, just smile and go on your way. One other item, quit worrying about passing; I can't pass, except maybe for the south end of a mule heading north. I'm too weather beaten with too many miles on the clock to ever be attractive. I now have "Character Lines" instead of wrinkles.
I am enjoying my life more than I ever have because of someone very special in my life; I love her more than I have ever loved anyone on this earth.
Wishing everyone in our community a wonderful transition and a very happy life.
Best Always, Love
Chris
