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Community Conversation => Transitioning => Hormone replacement therapy => Topic started by: morriganali on March 28, 2014, 10:40:48 PM

Title: Finasteride, Mdroxyprogesterone Estrodial Your Thoughts
Post by: morriganali on March 28, 2014, 10:40:48 PM
I was on Estrodial and Spiro for 10 months and within that time frame I developed breast buds and sensitivity hair reduction and less morning erections, but also in that time spiro was making my feet fell numb. On the 11th month every thing stop and disappear now I'm back where I start with not reason as to why. My doctor told me to give it some time a few months while she do a bit of research and find out what could I take to further this transition because it was clear I couldn't take Spiro anymore. Now I'm on Finasteride, Mdroxyprogesterone and of course Estrodial and even though I just start short of a month I'm so freaked out that it might not work because of what happened last time I know if it doesn't I'll still be a girl and maybe its other methods to achieve my physical appearance, I just want to know what to you all make of this. I've been reading several post and nobody seems to have anything that good to say in reference to these to medications and though everybody body is different but it's so stressful when you just have no real answers. Please give me feed back
Title: Re: Finasteride, Mdroxyprogesterone Estrodial Your Thoughts
Post by: Jessika Lin on March 29, 2014, 08:40:18 AM
My thoughts are, you should ditch the Medroxy asap and get bio-identical progesterone. Medroxy has a whole raft of bad side-effects. There are multiple things that could be used as an AA, Androcur for one though if you're in the U.S. it's not an option. Casodex (Brand name)is another option, I'm sure others here could recommend other possibilities.
Not sure what form of E you're on, but there's nothing wrong with Finasteride.