I am just past month number 5 on HRT. I got blood work done, and I go to the Endocrinologist in a week. They sent me my blood work all my levels are good except T is still 424 and it was 525, and estradiol is like 394 on a low dose hrt, and it was like 36 estrodial starting out. I mean I have had good development, and pretty much common changes one might expect at 5 months in.
I said this part before I weighed my self, and I feel much better now.
I am at a weird place, I mean I not longer get bothered by gender dysphoria. I feel really good taking medicine in the morning, but at night I feel sluggish kind of like the day I forgot to take estrodial in morning. I mean by 3 pm, and I was at work, I told my boss I forgot something at home, and then took medicine. I felt like a zombie then after I took estrodial I felt normal afterwards.
That only happened once, and I try to take medicines at same time in the morning. I try to take Spiro 30 min or so before estrodial. I heard some people split up their tablet to take two times a day for better averaging levels?
Oh, I also found out that sublingual estrodial is coated, and if the under the tongue swells then the tablet has to be cut in half or crushed to get past the coating.
I have more weird experiences where people do not gender me or take second looks. I had a person today ask me where my male name was... I said its me... He looks at me and says you have long hair now...and you...you got waay bigger. I said I normally keep it in a bun,but I had it in a ponytail. My other coworker she knows about me, and I could not help it, but we had a good laugh afterwords.
Weight wise I started at 282 pounds, and tonight after 5 months I weigh 281.5. Recently since the new year I started riding my bike 40 minutes every other day to practice for mountain biking. I changed up my diet to be chicken and more veggies, and I do not eat pork beef or sausage. I might try beef like I did after a month of not eating it, but it makes my stomach hurt so bad until its done digesting. I compared it to how blood goes to growing boobs it feels like that but in my stomach. I guess I am more sensitive to how my body feels. I feel like I have lost muscle mass because my pants are only tight in my butt area lol, and they used to be tight on my legs.
I used to be a bad nail biter and my nails are growing out nicely since I have not been biting them, which has been 7 months ago.
I oil them everyday,and I get less breakage and they still grow pretty good.
Overall, I feel like a new person, and some changes are happening at a alarming right, but others are slow.
I smile a lot more.
:)
"I am at a weird place, I mean I not longer get bothered by gender dysphoria. I feel really good taking medicine in the morning, but at night I feel sluggish kind of like the day I forgot to take estrodial in morning. I mean by 3 pm, and I was at work, I told my boss I forgot something at home, and then took medicine. I felt like a zombie then after I took estrodial I felt normal afterwards."
I had to edit this because I reread that above this.
I feel really good taking medicine in the morning, but at night I feel sluggish. The other day I forgot to take my estrodial in morning. And by 3 pm I felt like a zombie, and I had to go home from work to take it. I felt embarrassed, and I promised myself that would never happen again.
Quote from: Coffeedrew on January 31, 2019, 11:49:07 PM
"I am at a weird place, I mean I not longer get bothered by gender dysphoria. I feel really good taking medicine in the morning, but at night I feel sluggish kind of like the day I forgot to take estrodial in morning. I mean by 3 pm, and I was at work, I told my boss I forgot something at home, and then took medicine. I felt like a zombie then after I took estrodial I felt normal afterwards.
I had to edit this because I reread that above this.
I feel really good taking medicine in the morning, but at night I feel sluggish. The other day I forgot to take my estrodial in morning. And by 3 pm I felt like a zombie, and I had to go home from work to take it. I felt embarrassed, and I promised myself that would never happen again.
Dear Drew:
Well, part of what you wrote is certainly good news about not being bothered by dysphoria and now that you are back on schedule with your meds again and it seems that you are back to your happy 😃 happy place once again.....
NOTE TO DREW: Do not forget to take meds on time!!!!!
Hugs,
Danielle
I do feel like I am trying to play catch-up with all of the little things in life I missed out on.
I broke my silence, and I finally developed a voice for myself during social interactions.
I have been able to concentrate a lot better, and I am trying to work on my English, so I can be a better communicator.
How have you been Alaskan Danielle?