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I'm not ready yet to start full HRT yet because that would cause a severe disturbance where I work. However I was woundering if take just a anti-androgen would not cause me to begin to appear more female. I'm not ready to start developing my breasts but I would like to stop having to endure erections.

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Quote from: Robin. on November 09, 2009, 09:46:17 AMI'm not ready yet to start full HRT yet because that would cause a severe disturbance where I work. However I was woundering if take just a anti-androgen would not cause me to begin to appear more female. I'm not ready to start developing my breasts but I would like to stop having to endure erections.

It would most likely help with that. I've never taken one without the other so I don't know what other effects it might have.

Just taking a t-blocker would end up throwing your balance off. The body needs a balance of sex hormones to function properly. You would most likely get hot/cold flashes and night sweats from hell.

All t-blocker have the side effect of developing Moobs.  But binding or loose shirts will help hide them.  But it also will take time for them to develop.  If someone mentions them make a joke about your' moobs'.  Guys joke about them all the time.


Janet

Quote from: Janet Lynn on November 09, 2009, 10:44:39 AM
All t-blocker have the side effect of developing Moobs.  But binding or loose shirts will help hide them.  But it also will take time for them to develop.  If someone mentions them make a joke about your' moobs'.  Guys joke about them all the time.


Janet

Thanx for the advice.  :)  I have considered binding them if necessary but I'm worried that that would hurt too much?

I don't know about hurting, the boys could tell you that.  But it could hinder development.  I would just let things happen, you would not develop overnight.


Janet

Quote from: Janet Lynn on November 09, 2009, 01:53:52 PM
But it could hinder development. 

Janet

Dang it... I suspected that... :-\

Oh BTW, since your an administrator and all. Should I specify my gender? And if so, or if its optional should I specify my phyisical gender or my emotional/spiritual/mental Gender?

Quote from: Robin. on November 09, 2009, 01:58:13 PM
Dang it... I suspected that... :-\

Oh BTW, since your an administrator and all. Should I specify my gender? And if so, or if its optional should I specify my physical gender or my emotional/spiritual/mental Gender?

Specifying gender is your choice, but most of us elect to choose our true brain gender.  If you feel you are female then you would choose that.  Many of the androgynous members don't choose at all.


Janet

Quote from: Janet Lynn on November 09, 2009, 02:03:03 PM
Specifying gender is your choice, but most of us elect to choose our true brain gender.  If you feel you are female then you would choose that.  Many of the androgynous members don't choose at all.


Janet

For most of us it's not a choice but something we've had to live with all our lives.

Exactly.  But I think she was wondering what is the proper ( can I say it that way) choice is.  I am male bodied at this time, but I am female in heart, mind, and soul.  Thus I am female.


Janet

Quote from: Janet Lynn on November 09, 2009, 02:31:39 PM
Exactly.  But I think she was wondering what is the proper ( can I say it that way) choice is.  I am male bodied at this time, but I am female in heart, mind, and soul.  Thus I am female.


Janet

Yeah what she said ^^^^^

Thanx  :)

binding won't hinder development.
You won't need to bind anyways, you can easily hide  them for a very long time.
And if someone notices it it's not like they will say "omg you are turning female", more like man boobs.

Your body needs some type of hormone be it testosterone or estrogen, without either you could develop osteoporosis over time.

On estrogen we develop breasts at different rates and development usually takes many months, people just thought i had moobs but it was the facial features and body odor changes that people first noticed somewhere around the 5 - 6 month mark.

Paula

tanx

I took only antiandrogens for a while prior to adding estrogens and stuff.

Go and look at Avodart forums and discussions. Sure you can take antiandrogens, men do it all the time for their hair. I read about some who make a paste out of spiro and rub it on their bald spots, others who break open their avodart gelcaps and all other sorts of things. The side effects they complain about are the yumyums to us. You do need either testosterone or estradiol, yes, but you don't need as much testosterone as your body is making and a doctor can help you reduce the levels without needing to supplement with anything else. It's no fun to bottom out though and not have enough sex hormone of either flavor, so make sure your doc isn't a goof.

Seriously though you'd be missing out, estradiol is the best part  :) Prolly the best thing to do would be to sort the issues barring you from hrt out first so they don't get worse.

Quote from: Becca on November 11, 2009, 02:36:57 PM
I took only antiandrogens for a while prior to adding estrogens and stuff.

Go and look at Avodart forums and discussions. Sure you can take antiandrogens, men do it all the time for their hair. I read about some who make a paste out of spiro and rub it on their bald spots, others who break open their avodart gelcaps and all other sorts of things. The side effects they complain about are the yumyums to us. You do need either testosterone or estradiol, yes, but you don't need as much testosterone as your body is making and a doctor can help you reduce the levels without needing to supplement with anything else. It's no fun to bottom out though and not have enough sex hormone of either flavor, so make sure your doc isn't a goof.

Seriously though you'd be missing out, estradiol is the best part  :) Prolly the best thing to do would be to sort the issues barring you from hrt out first so they don't get worse.

The only thing keeping me from doing hormones right now is my job, and because I havn't found one where I would be accepted yet.

anouther option increase cardio ie fat burning exercise and it will slow their growth as well since you will have less fat to deposite their kind of counter productive but healthy alternative to slowing breast growth to buy more time.
jessica