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Community Conversation => Transsexual talk => Female to male transsexual talk (FTM) => Topic started by: JRAF on May 03, 2011, 04:01:06 PM

Title: Taking T
Post by: JRAF on May 03, 2011, 04:01:06 PM
Im new to the website so Hello :-)

I've been waiting now for over a year to get on T and I was told today that Im going to have to wait for longer.  I look like a lad already and no one thinks im a girl.  so Im just getting frustrated as i just want my voice to deepen and have facial hair.  what is the T called as i want to try buy some off the internet?

Thanks

J
Title: Re: Taking T
Post by: Lee on May 03, 2011, 04:05:52 PM
Hey JRAF welcome to the site.  I'm sorry to hear that you are having to wait.  However, Susan's doesn't allow discussion of hormones obtained through different channels.  Maybe we could help you figure out how to work with whatever is holding up the process instead.
Title: Re: Taking T
Post by: Ryan on May 03, 2011, 06:10:04 PM
Buying testosterone online is illegal. Steroids are widely abused and are therefore controlled substances. In the UK they're a class C which makes them illegal to posses and could even get you a prison sentence with repeated offence. The other thing about buying medication online is that you don't know what you're really buying. It could be anything.
Also, hormone therapy has to be monitored by regular blood tests as it can cause liver problems amongst other things. If your levels are too high then your body will start converting the extra testosterone to oestrogen anyway.

If you want testosterone, go see a doctor.
Title: Re: Taking T
Post by: joeybrogue on May 06, 2011, 03:11:16 PM
As said by both posters, don't go that route.  You need monitored blood work, and if something should go wrong-- you need an experienced endo. to seek out the correct treatment.  I would highly suggestion, as Lee said, providing details as to what is holding up the actual "getting T" with a trans.-friendly endocrinologist and maybe others can help there.  Buying it online is illegal, and seen as steroids, and can be confiscated in the mail.  Then you shoot it up, god only knows what you are actually buying and without blood work, who knows what things could go out of whack.  Plus, you don't know what your needed dosage is. :/