What kind of shot the Dr's give to try to "challenge" your body to have a period after being on hormones? Or anyone else done this? My doc told me after 6 months they were going to do this, and I'd like to try and research it a little. Thanks.
Never heard of doing that. It'd probably have to be a female hormone though. Perhaps you should ask your doctor why s/he thinks that's necessary. Also, there is Nick Gorton's FtM care manual online that might assist: it's at www.nickgorton.org (http://www.nickgorton.org) but seems to be down at the moment.
Dennis
I don't know about your specific case 'cuz I'm not on T yet. However, I did have all periods stop, randomly, for 6 straight months... I was happy about this 'til I read that it could lead to osteoporosis (which runs in my family anyways), so to the doc I go. She suggested putting me on 'female hormones'--aka progesterone & estrogen--an idea that I balked at, so she said I could just try the progesterone at first to see if it worked. I took the prescription but didn't fill it for 2 months (doc said it would be ok to wait that long); at the end of the 2 months I had the progesterone filled, took it & nada. A month later, when I finally got the guts to put myself through the dreaded E as well (HOW had I not come out to myself at this point?!), well... it worked.
Anyways, my guess is a dose of estrogen, or progesterone, or both, prolly in a fairly large amount to counteract the larger amounts of T in your system; but I'm sure if you called the doc's office he could tell you what he would be using so you could research it more.
why the hell would they wanna do this to you? gah, try to get out of that one dude.
Yep never done that either. wtf ??? maybe u gotta find another doc bro!
The doctor's a bozo.
If T levels are in the male range, T is transformed into E by local
enzymes (in the bone, fats) and this E prevents osteoporosis.
Why do you think not many men have it till they're like 80 and
they're T levels are real low.
So, unless your T is out of male range, there's little risk
for osteoporosis.
Though FTM have a risk factor Genetic males don't have,
the bone density starts (bone cross sectional size also)
off lower than males because
its T esposition in the late teens, early 20's that lead
to bigger bones.