Community Conversation => Transitioning => Hormone replacement therapy => Topic started by: Laurette Mohr on January 13, 2015, 10:29:59 PM Return to Full Version
Title: Best Times to Take HRT
Post by: Laurette Mohr on January 13, 2015, 10:29:59 PM
Post by: Laurette Mohr on January 13, 2015, 10:29:59 PM
What is the best times to take your regimen Morning and night or with the same digits say 6am and 6pm?? Suggestions please.
Title: Re: Best Times to Take HRT
Post by: Dee Marshall on January 14, 2015, 07:25:47 AM
Post by: Dee Marshall on January 14, 2015, 07:25:47 AM
I honestly can't say for sure, but I've always taken mine at 7:30 and 7:30. I take spiro both times and estradiol once. I recently moved the E to mornings when I missed a dose.
Title: Re: Best Times to Take HRT
Post by: Apple on January 14, 2015, 07:31:34 AM
Post by: Apple on January 14, 2015, 07:31:34 AM
Don't worry about precise timing. In genetic females, the estradiol and progesterone levels change hugely during the menstrual cycle. It's not like diabetes where you'd need to be very careful.
Title: Re: Best Times to Take HRT
Post by: Hideyoshi on January 14, 2015, 07:54:46 AM
Post by: Hideyoshi on January 14, 2015, 07:54:46 AM
Quote from: Apple on January 14, 2015, 07:31:34 AM
Don't worry about precise timing. In genetic females, the estradiol and progesterone levels change hugely during the menstrual cycle. It's not like diabetes where you'd need to be very careful.
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I take first dose in the AM, 2nd dose before I go to bed
Title: Re: Best Times to Take HRT
Post by: akegia on January 14, 2015, 08:03:10 AM
Post by: akegia on January 14, 2015, 08:03:10 AM
I take mine when I wake up, and when I get off work. E and Spiro both times.
Title: Re: Best Times to Take HRT
Post by: Mariah on January 14, 2015, 10:29:46 AM
Post by: Mariah on January 14, 2015, 10:29:46 AM
On Spiro I generally take a dose around 5/6am in the morning and the other dose around 5/6pm at night. As others have pointed it isn't an exactly have to be the same everyday. My IM injections I generally do in the mornings.
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Title: Re: Best Times to Take HRT
Post by: alexis.j on January 14, 2015, 12:39:42 PM
Post by: alexis.j on January 14, 2015, 12:39:42 PM
Ok, this is what works for me.
I take my first spiro dose and all my estrogen in the morning when i get up (7:00),
Then when i get home from work at 17:00 i have the 2nd spiro dose.
Its not perfectly 12 hours apart, but nothing is perfect... I do try and wait at least 2 hours after the 2nd spiro before consuming any alcohol so that it is at least sort of absorbed in m blood.
I take my first spiro dose and all my estrogen in the morning when i get up (7:00),
Then when i get home from work at 17:00 i have the 2nd spiro dose.
Its not perfectly 12 hours apart, but nothing is perfect... I do try and wait at least 2 hours after the 2nd spiro before consuming any alcohol so that it is at least sort of absorbed in m blood.
Title: Re: Best Times to Take HRT
Post by: Laurette Mohr on January 14, 2015, 01:21:03 PM
Post by: Laurette Mohr on January 14, 2015, 01:21:03 PM
Thank you so much for all of the help. It sure is a learning adventure.
Title: Re: Best Times to Take HRT
Post by: ImagineKate on January 14, 2015, 02:19:09 PM
Post by: ImagineKate on January 14, 2015, 02:19:09 PM
6AM, 2PM and 10PM.
Morning when I get up, lunch, and bedtime.
Works for me. Seems to keep me from crashing. At one time I took all once in the morning and by mid-day I was totally miserable. Now with the divided dose I'm fine all day long.
Spiro gets taken with breakfast, around 9AM (at work) along with my other medicines.
Morning when I get up, lunch, and bedtime.
Works for me. Seems to keep me from crashing. At one time I took all once in the morning and by mid-day I was totally miserable. Now with the divided dose I'm fine all day long.
Spiro gets taken with breakfast, around 9AM (at work) along with my other medicines.