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at what age did you start HRT?

My initial start for HRT was at the age of 24,  I was on for 7 months, stopped for 6 and have been back on ever sence (with a few minor yet anoying hickups due to finances)

I started at 24 as well, my one year anniversary is in 3 days :).

You ladies are lucky. Wish I'd started that early. 42 here.

Dennis

Quote from: Dennis on March 28, 2007, 05:19:39 AM
You ladies are lucky. Wish I'd started that early. 42 here.

Same here.

Ah, to have started in youth...

Kate

Heh, 30 over here.

^*shrug* I can not say I have any complaints really. Life has been exactly what I have needed, imagine that.
:angel:

18, a couple of weeks after my birthday.

properly offically started just under 7 months after that but I was in proper care all that time, just it takes two GIC appointments at four month intervals to get HRT sorted out on the NHS and I got my first one three months in.

I started at 28 and paid for it all by myself.  My parents refuse to have anything to do with me.

Melissa

Illegally at 16 1/2 to 29.
Legally at 29 1/2
I would not recommend what I did. I was just lucky I did not have problems.

Deb

Later than the rest on this thread.  I would have liked to start pre-teen.

I'm taking DHEA now, does that count?
I'm 16.
The second I turn 18 I plan on starting the whole process, hope to start T asap after that.

Hey,

Where is the option to take your vote away? How come I can not see the results without voting.

I Put in 40-50 because if I start it will be within that time period.

Alice

Quote from: Alice on March 28, 2007, 08:10:54 PM
Hey,

Where is the option to take your vote away? How come I can not see the results without voting.

I Put in 40-50 because if I start it will be within that time period.

Alice

I think that Yvonne made this poll unchangeable; once you submit your vote, that is basically it!  You should be able to see the results of the poll after you are done voting.


tink :icon_chick:

I like to think about how it could have been if I'd started in my teens but then I wouldn't have my wonderful daughter. Besides, I never knew it was possible. For too many years I avoided anything to do with gender and missed out on a lot.  I'll be 52 when I have SRS after being on HRT for nearly 12 years. ouch!

Karen Lyn

Dear Yvonne,

I voted in the 25-30 category but that is misleading since things did not work.

However my wife and children are great so that things have a way of working out.

All I knew when I was young is that I was not allowed to be me.

Quote from: debisl on March 28, 2007, 03:37:43 PM
Illegally at 16 1/2 to 29.
Legally at 29 1/2

Deb

lol, we've been bad, haven't we?  illegally at 15, stopped at 19 for about eight months and continued with it until i was 32 [two years ago].

legally from two years ago to present.  im 34 now.

Quote from: debislI would not recommend what I did. I was just lucky I did not have problems.

me neither.

Quote from: zombiesarepeacefulI'm taking DHEA now, does that count?

dunno, is it a form of t?  i've seen the name advertised somewhere though  ???  on tv? 

I started mones at 24.

Quote from: zombiesarepeacefulI'm taking DHEA now, does that count?

DHEA is a natural hormone produced by humans.  It decreases as we age and some claim it can reduce aging if taken at an older age.  If a male takes more than recommended it can have some slight feminizing affects and vice versa for GG's.  There is a point in which almost any chemical will overload the liver and you will get very ill.

Supervised HRT began when I was 25.5 years old.   :D  I rounded up. 

I just started two month ago...and that was and still is age 23!

Cheers: Patty

A woman never reveals her age ;) but I was _ _ years old and that was five years ago January 1st new year new me kinda thing. That was 2002 goes with my email address  ;D

Quote from: Yvonne on March 28, 2007, 03:38:18 AM
I started the anti-androgen Cyproterone acetate when I was 16.  My parents helped me through hormones and gender reassignment.  At 18, I started hormones, did what I had to do and at 24 I had gender reassignment.

Lucky you :)
and you look beautifull too!
wish i did start on hormones 30 years ago  :(

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Well i did first start on hormones 10 days ago,
and i am 44 years old  :(
Cant feel any changes yet,
but i'm waiting with patience  :)

Quote from: Kia Lafemme on April 02, 2007, 06:15:10 PM

Quote from: Yvonne on March 28, 2007, 03:38:18 AM
I started the anti-androgen Cyproterone acetate when I was 16.  My parents helped me through hormones and gender reassignment.  At 18, I started hormones, did what I had to do and at 24 I had gender reassignment.

Lucky you :)
and you look beautifull too!

Many thanks! :)

I started HRT at exactly age 20. March 18th 2003. My Mothers B - Day. I started with Spiro, Progy, and Progestrone. Till this day, My mother still does not have any idea.

Gos to show ya how much I keep in touch with family...lol

Now some odd years later. I am at:


Spiro
Injectable Estro
Estrogel
Vaniqa
Finasteride
Proges Creme

And 2 Boob Jobs. 1 size bigger than the last!

Quote from: ssindysmith on March 29, 2007, 01:52:09 PM
A woman never reveals her age

Ah, so you're old enough to start having to use that phrase. ;)

I started at 27. I'm 28 now. I've been on them for almost 9 months.

I've been wanting to go on them since I was a teen, but things didn't turn out until now.

I was 29 or 30.  I dont' remember all that well.

Cindi

no option for those of us that don't take hormones lol..

I'm curious to see what the results are  :icon_yes:

I wish I had started earlier actually i wish I have alrady started but I have to wait untill I get back to the US permananatly.  But I will satrt soon thereafter and I will be over 50.  I pray that the results are satisfying but I need to do it anyway.  I wish when i was younge r I could ahve recieved the help i needed but I can't chage that and my life hasn't been to terrible.  I am soo looking forward to the future.  ;)

I started HRT at age 28 after time off work with a back injury and 3 months to work my head out,now I'm a totally different person.

Floritine

I started at 24.  Wish I had started sooner - Glad I didn't wait til later.

Needed to be independant before I took the leap.

-Alexis

I started last September, a month after my fifty first birthday and 10 months after I started therapy even though I told the therapist I wanted hormones on the first day.

It took awhile and I really do believe they saved my life.

hugs & smiles
helen

20... I think. Or 21. Pretty sure it was 20. I'm 21 now and I think I've been on for over a year... must be 20. (I should really look into this!)

i started at 23

Well I have started mones yet :'(, I am having problems getting to a gender specialist and I want to see the results, please can we have another option for SOs and not started yet....  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE


                                                                       LUCY

Quote from: Hidrix on April 11, 2007, 03:22:14 AM
started T las year. 

wow you look really good!  <3

I started HRT 92 days ago, at the tender age of 54. I do envy all of you that started in your 20's!! But I am pressing on towards the goal!!
-Barb

i started on jan 14th, im 20 :)

Started at 53 and I am a little over 4 years along.  All done with a doctor monitoring. 

Margie

I initially started when I was 20, but stopped for about 6 months. I am 21 now and have been on HRT for about 4 months now.

Officially starting Age 28!  ;D  First Month!

I started just a couple months after my 20th birthday and I haven't stopped, and while I wish I had started even sooner, I'm glad that I did manage to start as soon as I did, even if it was a bit risky.

risky? whats risky?

Well... the only way I managed to start then was by self-medicating. Which I'm not anymore, but still.

48, DIY.

I started at 46 (which was last year) - surprised to find that the forties are the smallest age cohort in this poll. Here I'd been thinking the forties were the most common age to begin it.

How I envy you youngsters who have so much more self-awareness, information, support, and resources than were available when I was young. I remember wishing in my early twenties that I could transition - and telling myself it was impossible, never gonna happen, just forget about it. <sigh> The lies we tell ourselves out of fear and ignorance.

19. :)

I started officially 6 months ago (jan 2007).  I am now 22 years young.  However, my mom (who has been by biggest supporter), listened as I cried to be a girl when i was 15-16 and with my doctors permission gave me  alsdactone (which made me pee a lot) and said that it would "slow down or even stop my male side", until I was older and could decide for myself.   (my mom is a nurse, and was able to get this for me)......i started therapy off/on when i was 16, Yag laser treatements when i was 19....and now the real deal.....looking forward to SRS in 1 year (or less maybe).....

I didn't start officially till I was 38. Before that I used to steal birth control pills from girlfriends while I was in my 20's....

I think I started way too late but when I wanted to transition in the early 1980's there wasn't the internet or the help and support there is today.

I envy the girls who got going while they were still quite young and you look fantastic in your aviators..

I started December 12th last year. Wow finally my body is getting what it desperately needs. Im in my early 30's and noticing how good I look with this strange thing called Eostrogen. Why didnt they give it to me as a child. I dont know whats wrong with these people around here! Oh well...At least my breasts will get bigger now.

Quote from: Berliegh on June 23, 2007, 09:41:36 AM
I think I started way too late but when I wanted to transition in the early 1980's there wasn't the internet or the help and support there is today.

Same here. (Wish I'd known about the workaround of stealing my sweetie's BC pills... somehow that didn't occur to me.)

But when I think back to my teenage years in the 1970s... and how much my Dad yelled at me for simply growing my hair long... if I'd come out with this, he would have f***in killed me. I grew up in terror of his explosive anger. I was raised in a religiously conservative environment, sent to Catholic schools all the way through college... nowhere I turned was any support to be found. I simply wasn't aware that the possibility even existed.

I remember my Dad yelling at my Mom when he thought she was going too easy on me. Now I understand why: they were worried if they didn't toughen up on me more, I would grow up gay (horrors!) and it would be all their fault. I would have been sent to mental hospitals and given thorazine or electroshocks as they did in those days to control rebellious kids. I knew kids that had happened to, and we all knew it was a perpetual threat hanging over us if we got out of line. Wish I had an estrogen pill for every time some macho control freak got in my face with "What you need is to be sent away to MILITARY SCHOOL!" For anyone who hasn't gone through this, you have no idea.

Quote from: Hypatia on June 26, 2007, 06:24:46 AM

Quote from: Berliegh on June 23, 2007, 09:41:36 AM
I think I started way too late but when I wanted to transition in the early 1980's there wasn't the internet or the help and support there is today.

Same here. (Wish I'd known about the workaround of stealing my sweetie's BC pills... somehow that didn't occur to me.)

But when I think back to my teenage years in the 1970s... and how much my Dad yelled at me for simply growing my hair long... if I'd come out with this, he would have f***in killed me. I grew up in terror of his explosive anger. I was raised in a religiously conservative environment, sent to Catholic schools all the way through college... nowhere I turned was any support to be found. I simply wasn't aware that the possibility even existed.

I remember my Dad yelling at my Mom when he thought she was going too easy on me. Now I understand why: they were worried if they didn't toughen up on me more, I would grow up gay (horrors!) and it would be all their fault. I would have been sent to mental hospitals and given thorazine or electroshocks as they did in those days to control rebellious kids. I knew kids that had happened to, and we all knew it was a perpetual threat hanging over us if we got out of line. Wish I had an estrogen pill for every time some macho control freak got in my face with "What you need is to be sent away to MILITARY SCHOOL!" For anyone who hasn't gone through this, you have no idea.

That sounds awful Hypatia. I never experienced that kind of abuse. My parents were my adopted parents and were very religious but never unkind or uncaring. I grew my hair long, really long in the late 70's (and kept it long ever since!) and they didn't ever protest about it. I wore femine clothes and it wasn't ever an issue either. My adopted dad was a lovely man who gained a lot of respect in the community and was well liked. I think he knew which direction I was heading but was quite intelligent and mature about these kind of issues.

Maybe in the U.K people are more liberal than American's. As for stealing birth control pills in the 1980's, it was something I couldn't stop doing. My girlfriend would give them to me in the end but they didn't have enough in them to do anything. I never really tried to conform and I ended up singing in rock bands which gave me a little more scope to be different.

I am 25. I started sprio a month ago and will be starting estrogen soon.

I think it doesn't matter what age we start HRT, we always wish we had started earlier :)

Started Spiro...something and Estro...something (I am so bad with these kind of names)
1 month ago, turned 18 in Feb.

Quote from: MaraOnline on July 08, 2007, 03:07:33 PM
I think it doesn't matter what age we start HRT, we always wish we had started earlier :)

So true... so so true...

i agree, i wish id started before puberty started, but sh*t happens i guess...

19 :) xoxo