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Community Conversation => Transitioning => Hormone replacement therapy => Topic started by: Cadence on March 07, 2013, 02:04:15 AM

Title: Altered Treatment For Naturally Low T-Levels?
Post by: Cadence on March 07, 2013, 02:04:15 AM
Here's my situation.

My T-levels are naturally low - both total (307.8 ng/dL) and free (8.52 pg/mL) levels.  The latter you may notice is falls completely off the scale of the cis male reference range and approaches that of the female range.

I find this intriguing, as I've always noticed a natural femininity about my body that has had me be fairly at peace with it.  I have no dysphoria; I embrace myself as I am.

Thus I think my goals with HRT are different than most.  I'm not looking to so much to repress a part of me that I find abhorrent; rather, I'm trying to promote my feminine qualities that are naturally occurring.  I want to give my body the chance to go through puberty just as if I were a cisgendered woman, and I want to create a hormonal environment in which it can do so.

My primary care physician (who is a very qualified transgender specialist) works on an informed consent model, and thus a lot of these decisions are entirely in my court.  Given what I've described to her - and given my hesitancy towards losing my erections and fertility issues - we have conjectured that it might be a good call to go without antiandrogens for the moment.

For now she has prescribed for me Estradiol.  She has told me that as I am still working out with my therapist whether this is worth the potential side effects (namely the small possibility of permanent fertility effects, the possibly negative effects on my libido & other health concerns), she wanted to give me that prescription with the understanding that I can start and / or stop at any time.

So... I have a few questions for the community here at this point:


I don't want to jump the gun, but part of me thinks that even with my low testosterone levels I should be starting with either a higher dosage or with some degree of AAs if I want the medication to have any meaningful - or even noticeable - effect...
Title: Re: Altered Treatment For Naturally Low T-Levels?
Post by: V M on March 07, 2013, 03:20:09 AM
Hi Cadence  :icon_wave:

Welcome to Susan's  :)  Glad to have you here

Everyone is different and so the HRT script will be different for everyone

Please be sure to review


Hugs

V M