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Community Conversation => Transgender talk => Topic started by: Denise on February 09, 2016, 07:01:20 PM

Title: HRT options
Post by: Denise on February 09, 2016, 07:01:20 PM
After reading a few dozen postings about different options for hormones and blockers, I'm more confused now than when I started looking.

Is there a post/site with all the different meds/delivery-systems and what each does and the expected (both desired and undesired) side-effects available for MtF?

Title: Re: HRT options
Post by: Rachel on February 09, 2016, 07:09:51 PM
It really is best to go to your doctor and discuss it with them. If they are not experienced then a referral to the correct doctor is best.

In general there are anti-androgens and Estrogen.

in the USA post puberty most anti-androgens are spironolactone. This is in pill form. This tells the brain you have enough T and to stop making T. It causes you to urinate (diuretic). You need to drink water, eat salt and avoid potassium.

E can be in pill, injection patch, cream and pellet form. When T is suppressed E makes your skin soft, alters your body odor, makes breasts grow and shifts fat and deposits fat under the skin. If you have dysphoria it can help reduce it.
Title: Re: HRT options
Post by: Dena on February 09, 2016, 07:33:30 PM
I am going back on hormones and the plan will to be to keep me on pills because they work with my lifestyle and I don't need the rapid development that others need. Some people like jells or patches and others have skin issues that prevent the use of patches. I hate needles but injections sometimes produce faster development. Implants are an option for some but you need to find a doctor who can do it. Some doctors have preferences in treatment and favor one over the other. Top that off with sometime one deliver system works better with a person than another. These are questions you need to ask you doctor because it's more a question of your goals and what's right for you.
Title: Re: HRT options
Post by: Emileeeee on February 09, 2016, 07:51:21 PM
I agree with the doctor bit. Not all doctors prescribe the same stuff either, so you might not even have all the options. Mine only does oral pills (not sublingual) or injections.
Title: Re: HRT options
Post by: JessicaSondelli on February 09, 2016, 08:25:27 PM
Here is a link to an interesting Harvard Medical School article about hormones but as the others said, consult an endocrinologist with transgender experience.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/womens-health/what-are-bioidentical-hormones
Title: Re: HRT options
Post by: Laura_7 on February 09, 2016, 09:47:39 PM

You could have a look here :

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,197550.msg1757196.html#msg1757196


hugs
Title: Re: HRT options
Post by: Squirebuffy1990 on February 12, 2016, 02:22:07 PM
Every doctor is different.

My doctor has me on Estrogen alone without T Blockers for 3 months to get me used to E first.