It's been two months on estrogen shots and spiro and for some reason I felt some minor changes first three weeks now 6 weeks in everything is flatlined. . I don't know if I am
Doing anything wrong. . I take spiro in the morning and night. . I stopped taking spiro for last 4 days . Anybody go thru this ?

I haven't gone through it, just started. But from everything I've read, changes take months to years. So 6 weeks is still early on. Maybe talk to your doctor about your dosage?

Quote from: Saphielakeview on December 20, 2013, 09:23:17 PM
It's been two months on estrogen shots and spiro and for some reason I felt some minor changes first three weeks now 6 weeks in everything is flatlined. . I don't know if I am
Doing anything wrong. . I take spiro in the morning and night. . I stopped taking spiro for last 4 days . Anybody go thru this ?

It sounds like you're self medicating or at least self modifying what's been prescribed , unless stopping the Spiro was your doctor's idea...?

Any HRT course is a fairly delicate thing based on your weight, height, age and general health and accordingly will react differently in all circumstances. You don't indicate what you mean by "flatlined" but I'm presuming you were expecting more results than have occurred so far? As Thylacin says, it is a very long process, the two months are almost no time to be able to gauge a proper response. Please see your doc about stopping the Spiro, as it is used to also treat high blood pressure, amongst other things you shouldn't just stop it arbitrarily and/or without supervision as there may be undesirable side effects.

Quote from: Saphielakeview on December 20, 2013, 09:23:17 PM
It's been two months on estrogen shots and spiro and for some reason I felt some minor changes first three weeks now 6 weeks in everything is flatlined. . I don't know if I am
Doing anything wrong. . I take spiro in the morning and night. . I stopped taking spiro for last 4 days . Anybody go thru this ?

You can't expect too much change the first few months. You should try sticking to the prescribed doses and discuss with your doctor at your first checkup.

If something doesn't "feel" right, you probably need an adjustment. Talk to your endo about it.

Visual changes do take a while but the mental effect of hormones can be an almost instantaneous tell-tale sign that something needs to be changed up.

I am on a very high dose of E (pellet form) and about 6 months in I felt like things had slowed down and mentally I could feel it too. My endo suggested that perhaps my body had become resistant to the high dose of E and counteracted it with a booster injection of estradiol. That seemed to get things going again.

At 4.5 years on E and still being on the Spiro post op, I can authoritatively say you are only beginning, only beginning.  I fathered two girls who are 40 and 34 years old and was a single parent to them from ages 11 and 7 up, the oldest began her puberty and periods at 11, and the youger one began at age 9.5.  Both of them were still growing into their 20's.  If you get the picture that 10 to 12 years is a possibility for you, you are right. 

The WPATH Standards Of Care V7 in a table at page 38 for MtF's lists things with a bottom time of 90 days to get going, and 3 years plus to get to full development, but the numbers on all the stats say "average" meaning YMMV  -- your mileage may vary!!  I recently had some new expansion of my bust line, so mine is still chugging ahead at over 4 years.  Feels great though. 

As said above, do not change your medication without your doctor's knowledge and advice or you will get terribly frustrated to the point of wanting to harm yourself.  I have seen it.  Trust your doctor too, and then settle back and breathe normally.  Why the heck you took a vacation from the Spiro without the doctor's knowledge is more than I can fathom since it reduces the efforts of your Testosterone to make you boy so that the Estrogen can push you on to being girl faster.  At most you have slowed things up an hour or two if that long, but without the doctor's say so, I think it was nutty.