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Community Conversation => Transitioning => Hormone replacement therapy => Topic started by: Tyler on October 21, 2012, 04:39:41 AM

Title: Ways to take the pill
Post by: Tyler on October 21, 2012, 04:39:41 AM
Swallowing: You swallow the pill
Sub lingually: You place it under the tongue and wait 8 years for it to dissolve.

Any other ways you girls would like to add? I know one person awhile was talking about crushing it and something..
Title: Re: Ways to take the pill
Post by: Alainaluvsu on October 21, 2012, 07:12:29 AM
lol 8 years? It's gone before you know it, silly :D
Title: Re: Ways to take the pill
Post by: Alyx Vox on October 21, 2012, 07:15:12 AM
Quote from: Tyler on October 21, 2012, 04:39:41 AM
Sub lingually: You place it under the tongue and wait 8 years for it to dissolve.

8 years? Are you sure about that?

That makes me think: isn't there an implant or something so that we don't have to swallow those pills constantly?
Or perhaps a patch, like a nicotine one. That way estrogen will be absorbed more evenly.
Title: Re: Ways to take the pill
Post by: Asfsd4214 on October 21, 2012, 08:02:16 AM
Quote from: Tyler on October 21, 2012, 04:39:41 AM
Swallowing: You swallow the pill
Sub lingually: You place it under the tongue and wait 8 years for it to dissolve.

Any other ways you girls would like to add? I know one person awhile was talking about crushing it and something..

Uhhh.... well conventionally those are the only two ways people tend to take estrogen pills.

The druggie in me feels compelled to point out plugging, snorting, crushing filtering then shooting... but realllllllly, I strongly recommend against doing any of those.

Pick swallowing or sublingually, they're both fine.
Title: Re: Ways to take the pill
Post by: Rena-san on October 21, 2012, 08:54:17 AM
Quote from: Asfsd4214 on October 21, 2012, 08:02:16 AM

The druggie in me feels compelled to point out plugging, snorting, crushing filtering then shooting... but realllllllly, I strongly recommend against doing any of those.


I'm totally going to try snorting my estrogen now. I'm going to have the most feminine looking nose ever. Haha. (Kidding here.)

I just swallow my estrogen. I asked my doctor about sublingual but she advised against it telling me that it was meant to be swallowed.
Title: Re: Ways to take the pill
Post by: Tyler on October 21, 2012, 02:15:59 PM
Quote from: Alainaluvsu on October 21, 2012, 07:12:29 AM
lol 8 years? It's gone before you know it, silly :D

No no it takes eight years :p
Title: Re: Ways to take the pill
Post by: Ms. OBrien CVT on October 21, 2012, 03:00:30 PM
If it is micronized then under the tongue.  Otherwise just shallow.
Title: Re: Ways to take the pill
Post by: Dale on October 26, 2012, 11:27:02 AM
my estrace under the tongue is gone in less than 1 minute