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I expect to get my hormones late next week, or the following week. I have this sort of goofy idea about waiting 24 hours after getting them to make sure that I absolutely want to do this, a firewall of sorts. But I am guessing that once they arrive, my heart will be beating almost uncontrollably. The time before I start using them will be about 5 seconds longer than it will take to open the box. I am wondering if I should practice my box opening skills in the interim.

Hehe.

You can always back out after you try them. You will know quickly if it is not for you.

Have a tape knife ready, and practice opening child safety caps in the interim. I imagine you will have those skills perfected quite soon.

I told myself that I would wait a week or so after I obtained my prescription and begin taking them the day my legal name change became official. In reality I purchased a bottle of water on my way out of the pharmacy and took my first dose on the way to my car.  :D

Absolutely April. You definitely need to practice your parcel opening skills. Five seconds is just waaaaay tooooo long, girl. I wouldn't be satisfied until you were into the nanosecond region of timing. Good grief girl, what have you been dooooooooing.  ;D.  ;D

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Catherine

ooooo you should say a speech or a catchphrase before you take them, it has to be perfect for the moment, youll thank me down the line

You're right Chanel, how does "Let me at 'em" or if you need something a little more classical. "Give me those bloody little things."

It can't be too long, April will have the whole ceremony wrapped up within hopefully about 32 nanoseconds.
;D.  ;D    ;D

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Catherine

I had a spiro in my mouth and was slapping on a patch in the parking lot....lol.

My first was an injection, but I did sit there in the waiting room with a touch of the 'so this is it!'s running around my head.

They showed me through. The psych on hand gate kept a bit and said 'are you really sure about this?'

I was more sure than ever. I didn't even feel the needle go in.


I echo the call for something with a sharp edge :D

Quote from: ChanelMK on January 31, 2014, 09:41:30 PM
ooooo you should say a speech or a catchphrase before you take them, it has to be perfect for the moment, youll thank me down the line

I got my first shot in the butt and said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for womankind."

I probably could've done better, but I was on the spot and the doc had just said, "Oops! A bit of blood."

I get shots in the arm now...

This idea of saying a little speech actually sounds like a pretty good idea to me. After all, it took me decades to get to this point, and it is not every day that you come to such a major branch in the road of your life's journey. 

With a little practice, I guess I could open the box and speak at the same time, but it will probably end up sounding like a cliche.

"Let me at 'em" sounds about right to me too.  You can always take them for a short time and back out, no shame if you do.  If you take them for a week and it's just so right - well you know where you are going!

Quote from: MaryXYX on February 04, 2014, 09:14:22 AM
"Let me at 'em" sounds about right to me too.  You can always take them for a short time and back out, no shame if you do.  If you take them for a week and it's just so right - well you know where you are going!

I have heard that exact same thing before: If you take them, you will know pretty quickly if they seem right for you. If it took only a week to know, that would be absolutely amazing. I am starting on what is basically a half dose from the standard recommended feminization regimen. I am even wondering if that is enough to see anything, let alone after one week. At the moment, I am feeling a lot of anxiety associated with my dysporia, and because of that, I am even more interested in the psychological benefits than the physical ones. I am hoping I feel mentally better with some E in my system.

I took mine the second I got home from the pharmacy.

I knew 2 hours later that it was the magic bullet.  YMMV, of course.

I think the psychological effects will kick in before you've taken enough to see any physical effects.  They did for me.

You are what you eat!*giggles* :)

I have to admit that could not wait until I drove home well to be honest even left the pharmacy parking lot before i had my first dose ingested, I was so relieved to finally get a medically managed program

I had planned on opening the containers in the pharmacy. I got them, went into my car and drove home. I put them away and thought for a few hours while intermittently looking at them. I could not believe I was so close and all I had to do was take the pills. I gave myself a cooling off period and then I took the pills.  I wanted to make sure I did not have a second thought. I had no second thoughts. I wanted to wait 3 days till my birthday which I knew was not going to happen when I got the scripts. I just could not believe I was finally doing this. Now I have 2 birthdays :)

I got my Rx, went to my pharmacy, got them, went home and straight to the bathroom to take the first dose. Took about 5 days for the BIG smile to relax up a bit...:D

Good luck! Be careful with sharp objects if you've never trained to be a box-Ninja...!