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Community Conversation => Transitioning => Hormone replacement therapy => Topic started by: Jaelithe on October 28, 2013, 12:05:55 PM

Title: SQUEE!
Post by: Jaelithe on October 28, 2013, 12:05:55 PM
A wind rose on the throughways of Columbia Maryland.  The wind was not the beginning.  There are no beginnings or endings to the Wheel of Time, but it was a beginning.

Which very much sums up how I feel each time I start a new part of my process.  Today I got my papers for my blood work, in two weeks I will have my perscription for my beginning dosage on HRT.  I'm excited, exuberant and exausted......all of which seem to start with ex for some reason.

I'm a bit worried about how my wife is going to take this, this is several weeks sooner than I had originally thought it would be(which makes me a verra happy Trisha!) but I know that she needs time to adjust as things go along too.....
Title: Re: SQUEE!
Post by: Xhianil on October 28, 2013, 12:11:54 PM
Congrats, i wish ya luck on HRT.
Title: Re: SQUEE!
Post by: Beth Andrea on October 28, 2013, 12:14:15 PM
WOOT!!

Congratulations!

:)
Title: SQUEE!
Post by: Jaelithe on October 28, 2013, 02:42:49 PM
Thankies, a bit nervous still but I'll be at the lab tomorrow morning to have my blood drawn!
Title: SQUEE!
Post by: Jaelithe on October 28, 2013, 02:58:30 PM
Good to know, thanks for the reminder ^^;
Title: Re: SQUEE!
Post by: Robin Mack on October 28, 2013, 03:38:27 PM
Quote from: ♡ Emily ♡ on October 28, 2013, 03:00:56 PM
That includes "no coffee" :). Seriously, my endo told that coffee or tea early in the morning can seriously mess up Your prolactine range :)

Wait... does that mean coffee on HRT is a bad thing, or just for the blood test.  This is *IMPORTANT*.  ;)
Title: Re: SQUEE!
Post by: ambiguousinlife on October 28, 2013, 04:08:58 PM
congrats and good luck
Title: Re: SQUEE!
Post by: Rachel on October 28, 2013, 05:10:26 PM
congratulations
Title: Re: SQUEE!
Post by: Ltl89 on October 28, 2013, 08:15:18 PM
Congrats!

I drink around 3 or 4 cups of coffee a day, and I'm okay...... sort of.   :D
Title: Re: SQUEE!
Post by: JLT1 on October 28, 2013, 08:32:24 PM
Wow, I'm around 14 cups or so......

Seriously, Jaelithe  CONGRADS!!!!!!!!!!!  YEA!!!!!!!!!

Big, Huge Hugs!

Jen

Title: Re: SQUEE!
Post by: Jaelithe on October 29, 2013, 08:44:41 AM
Blood drawn(I really hate needles x.x)!  Sure enough, the wife thinks things are moving too quickly.  There's more to it than that though, she's been somewhat traumatized by seeing what different medications do to peoples' personalities.  Some of her coworkers went on anti-depressents and became zombies, etc.

I can't even say that something like that is impossible, as any time you tinker with hormone levels there's no telling what might happen as far as I can tell.
Title: Re: SQUEE!
Post by: LizMarie on October 30, 2013, 01:30:47 PM
HRT affected my emotions. I smile more. I laugh more readily. I cry more readily. Things that never would have touched the withdrawn shell of him now openly impact her.

On the whole, I'm happy with my HRT based emotional changes. ;)