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Community Conversation => Transitioning => Hormone replacement therapy => Topic started by: kim99962 on March 31, 2013, 09:59:58 AM

Title: starting HRT
Post by: kim99962 on March 31, 2013, 09:59:58 AM
Hi went to the doctor to start HRT did blood tests to set my baseline and the results came back and the T is 140 with no meds and said that I was that low naturally the E will probably be effective.  Does this sound right to you?
Title: Re: starting HRT
Post by: Jenna Marie on March 31, 2013, 10:09:08 AM
It does to me. My T was 200 before I started HRT (that's below the bottom of the normal male range) and with a low dose of E only it got down to 30-40. I've seen some pretty impressive results, too.
Title: Re: starting HRT
Post by: Megan S on March 31, 2013, 12:13:36 PM
Yes, this is good. It means you can start Estrogen first a d hopefully it alone will do the job of furthering lowering your testosterone. Due to how hard andro-blockers are on the liver this would be very positive news. You can redraw the T level in a few months after starting E and it is hopeful it will drop further.
Title: Re: starting HRT
Post by: Theo on March 31, 2013, 08:02:12 PM
Based on what I've heard from my doc, it does indeed seem okay. To be honest I really envy you though, I started off at 759 T and after 6 weeks on E have finally reached 424. Time for anti androgens...
Title: Re: starting HRT
Post by: Alainaluvsu on March 31, 2013, 11:38:26 PM
Keep in mind that sometimes the brain sees that increased estradiol is in the body and tells the pituitary gland to up the T. So it MAY go up after HRT. However it's possible you wont need AA.