Community Conversation => Transitioning => Hormone replacement therapy => Topic started by: Leah443 on January 02, 2015, 07:25:07 PM Return to Full Version
Title: Just something i noticed
Post by: Leah443 on January 02, 2015, 07:25:07 PM
Post by: Leah443 on January 02, 2015, 07:25:07 PM
So i just realized that most women seem to start off on estradiol or some variant and then go into spiro or the variants. my endo put me on both at once. should i be concerned? i know this is a little late cuz its been 10 months lol. anyways as i said just something i noticed. have a good day!
Love Leah
Love Leah
Title: Re: Just something i noticed
Post by: mrs izzy on January 02, 2015, 07:32:56 PM
Post by: mrs izzy on January 02, 2015, 07:32:56 PM
You are ok.
Normal hrt always started off low doses of both for a good feminising regimen.
Just doctors have been now experimenting on patients with different ideas of hrt.
If you are seeing a doctor and that is there regimen its all good.
Normal hrt always started off low doses of both for a good feminising regimen.
Just doctors have been now experimenting on patients with different ideas of hrt.
If you are seeing a doctor and that is there regimen its all good.
Title: Re: Just something i noticed
Post by: ImagineKate on January 02, 2015, 09:23:32 PM
Post by: ImagineKate on January 02, 2015, 09:23:32 PM
I got put on both, but I had been self medding off and on with just E prior. One factor that got me on both was that she needed to see how spiro would work in conjunction with my other blood pressure meds.
Title: Re: Just something i noticed
Post by: Jessica Merriman on January 03, 2015, 01:08:32 AM
Post by: Jessica Merriman on January 03, 2015, 01:08:32 AM
Your fine. that is pretty normal girl. :)
Title: Re: Just something i noticed
Post by: Carrie Liz on January 03, 2015, 01:24:04 AM
Post by: Carrie Liz on January 03, 2015, 01:24:04 AM
I started out on full doses of both E and Spiro, and HRT has definitely been very kind to me, so yeah, nothing to worry about.
I also have friends who started off on almost nothing, on low-dose E alone for months, then low-dose Spiro, and it took like 2 years for them to get their hormone levels into the female range, and yet they feminized just fine, so seriously, I don't think it really matters that much, I think it's all down to doctor preference.
I dealt with some nasty mood swings in the first couple of months that my friends didn't get due to the rapid change in hormone levels, which is probably why a lot of doctors like to ease into it, but it worked out.
I also have friends who started off on almost nothing, on low-dose E alone for months, then low-dose Spiro, and it took like 2 years for them to get their hormone levels into the female range, and yet they feminized just fine, so seriously, I don't think it really matters that much, I think it's all down to doctor preference.
I dealt with some nasty mood swings in the first couple of months that my friends didn't get due to the rapid change in hormone levels, which is probably why a lot of doctors like to ease into it, but it worked out.
Title: Re: Just something i noticed
Post by: Ms Grace on January 03, 2015, 02:04:25 AM
Post by: Ms Grace on January 03, 2015, 02:04:25 AM
I was started on E, but that was for about six weeks - after that it was onto Spiro as well. I think he wanted to see if the E would knock out most of my T which apparently it did. I think endos just have their own way of doing things and presumably it is guided by what is going on with the patient too.