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Community Conversation => Transitioning => Hormone replacement therapy => Topic started by: xchristine on July 02, 2013, 12:06:31 AM

Title: how long
Post by: xchristine on July 02, 2013, 12:06:31 AM
Been seven months of sore blobs
So sore I have to watch out for them....
Haha make some protective heat maybe. 

How much longer is this going on for ?
Title: Re: how long
Post by: smile_jma on July 04, 2013, 03:52:30 AM
I asked this same Q a few weeks back...  Answers I got were "forever."   Well, maybe not sore 100% of the time, but only if touched, then sore.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: Vicky on July 04, 2013, 09:20:19 PM
At page 38 of the WPATH SOC7, the chart says:  Expected Onset 3 - 6 months,  Expected Maximum Effect  2 - 3 years.

Ok, I will be at 4 years on July 6, and from time to time I get some action from the girls even now.  I have had a friend that had a growth spurt at 5 years and Post, and had to have implants put in at year 3.5 taken out for health reasons -- they were literally killing her back!!

It is quite an experience.  Evil cackle!!
Title: Re: how long
Post by: PrincessDayna on July 07, 2013, 01:56:22 PM
So, what if that onset hits at midway thrugh the second week? is it normal? cuz these girls hurt!
Title: Re: how long
Post by: xchristine on July 07, 2013, 02:38:01 PM
My growth spurts are completely random..
Just yesterday at work I was walking down some steps and
Well they bounced more than the day before. .
Enough to make my shirt move a little ...

I'm going to have a yard time hiding this soon
Which is good that I can get forehead nose and Adams
Done this year...

But they still hurt!!! I swear to god if some guy grabs me
The wring way he'sgetting my knee on his rocks
Title: Re: how long
Post by: Riley Skye on July 07, 2013, 03:15:02 PM
I'm 6 months in and patiently waiting for the hormones to work their magic, so far slight growth but not enough where I can't go topless
Title: Re: how long
Post by: suzifrommd on July 07, 2013, 04:09:53 PM
Quote from: PrincessDayna on July 07, 2013, 01:56:22 PM
So, what if that onset hits at midway thrugh the second week? is it normal? cuz these girls hurt!

For me, soreness started the first week.
Title: Re: how long
Post by: PrincessDayna on July 07, 2013, 05:15:35 PM
Quote from: suzifrommd on July 07, 2013, 04:09:53 PM
For me, soreness started the first week.

Thats pretty intensce!  How many monthes in are you?  How long after this soreness till we get more growth? Im at work with a bra on cuz i had to protect these girls its that painfull lol!
Title: Re: how long
Post by: suzifrommd on July 07, 2013, 05:43:13 PM
Quote from: PrincessDayna on July 07, 2013, 05:15:35 PM
Thats pretty intensce!  How many monthes in are you?  How long after this soreness till we get more growth? Im at work with a bra on cuz i had to protect these girls its that painfull lol!

There were issues with my e-levels. We had about 4 months of playing with doses, where I had sensitivity but only budding. Then the doctor doubled my E and gave me spiro. During the first month of that, they basically popped right out. Now they're about a handful (I'm more than satisfied). After a month of spiro, the sensitivity subsided a bit.

Title: Re: how long
Post by: PrincessDayna on July 07, 2013, 06:03:51 PM
Quote from: suzifrommd on July 07, 2013, 05:43:13 PM
There were issues with my e-levels. We had about 4 months of playing with doses, where I had sensitivity but only budding. Then the doctor doubled my E and gave me spiro. During the first month of that, they basically popped right out. Now they're about a handful (I'm more than satisfied). After a month of spiro, the sensitivity subsided a bit.

Im already on high E for sure weekly and injections. Maybe my low spiro dose has to do with it? Idk cuz the spiros def done its job already fast from its aa effects i have :p but awesome, granted the whole ymmv thing, but yay hopefully this next month ill get nice growth then! *fingers crossed*
Title: Re: how long
Post by: Jenna Marie on July 07, 2013, 07:21:19 PM
Dayna - I'm another who had sensitivity in the first week (by day 5). I could fill a 42A by the end of that week, but I think most of that was pre-HRT gynecomastia perking up and out once the breast buds formed underneath.  I had to buy new bras constantly, b/c I was a C-cup by three months. I am currently 42DDD in my favorite Lane Bryant T-shirt bra (about 3.5 years on low dose estrogen only). And that one is starting to feel tight again... frankly, I'd be happy if it stopped somewhere around here. Anyway, yeah, you're not the only one to see breast soreness/growth very early on, and most of the women I know for whom that happened have also ended up pretty big. :) It seems like it might indicate high estrogen sensitivity or something.

As for the original question, the soreness has been off and on but hasn't quit so far. Sorry!