Hello I thought I would ask this question to all.  What is one thing you have to go through with now being on HRT that you really could live without.  Or if you could change one aspect of it what would it be?  For me it would probably be the time it takes to see significant results but I understand like the saying goes "good things come to those who wait",  other than that it has been good for me.

I suppose one thing that would be nice is getting what we want, without having to take medication to get it.   

Quote from: AnneK on June 05, 2017, 02:58:28 PM
I suppose one thing that would be nice is getting what we want, without having to take medication to get it.   

I like that one. 

The need for Spiro! I'm off of it now, but I hated that stuff! Made me pee every 5 minutes and eat a pound of salt a day.

Quote from: AnneK on June 05, 2017, 02:58:28 PM
I suppose one thing that would be nice is getting what we want, without having to take medication to get it.   

+1

Water retention! I look like a marshmallow monster.

Spiro helps with water retention as can progesterone because it exerts similar, anti-mineralocorticoid effects. Ask your doctor about them.

Quote from: KayXo on June 09, 2017, 01:33:01 PM
Spiro helps with water retention as can progesterone because it exerts similar, anti-mineralocorticoid effects. Ask your doctor about them.

Thanks for the suggestions! However, I'm a trans man and T just causes water retention for the first couple of months. It'll die down eventually, but thank you

I'd like to be able to do without spiro.  I hate getting up twice in the night to pee, and feeling thirsty all the time in spite of chugging gallons of water.  I also find that that big pill (sorry, forum rules won't let me say the dose, but it's a honkin' big pill) hard to choke down.

anybody else experience bouts with overwhelming weakness associated with HRT, like as if you were recovering from exhaustion?

I had pretty much no energy for 5 weeks after starting Spiro and again when they changed my dosage. Felt like exhaustion.

Maybe starting everything the same day in full transition dose has contributed a bit.

So the first 3 month have been pretty rough. Ever since it has been fine and certainly a lot better than having no energy from depression...

Quote from: Member061817 on June 10, 2017, 05:48:43 PM
anybody else experience bouts with overwhelming weakness associated with HRT, like as if you were recovering from exhaustion?

Quote from: Member061817 on June 10, 2017, 05:48:43 PM
anybody else experience bouts with overwhelming weakness associated with HRT, like as if you were recovering from exhaustion?

Yes.  At one time I did.  Eventually though the body adapts.  I feel full of energy now. 


Conform and be dull. —James Frank Dobie, The Voice of the Coyote

Quote from: Member061817 on June 10, 2017, 05:48:43 PM
anybody else experience bouts with overwhelming weakness associated with HRT, like as if you were recovering from exhaustion?

Yeah. Me too. It seemed like it was when I was in a no mans land. My hormone levels were neither in the normal male or female range. After I got the E up and the T down I felt pretty normal.


~Brooke~

I always here about salt cravings and having to pee a lot on Spiro but I'm 3 weeks in and haven't experienced either yet

Well.....I'm an old broad and I've been on the stuff for over a year now. I'd like to see it live of to the dream of doing what I fantasized it would do. It has been a bit of a let down regarding that matter. Another year and another assessment I suppose.

(Disclaimer - my first HRT/endo appointment is next month).

What would I change about HRT?  Sure would be nice if MTF HRT deleted all that facial hair without resorting to electricity.  And while we are at it, shorten vocal cords just a bit.  But even without those capabilities I'm looking forward to what it can do.

Quote from: jentay1367 on June 12, 2017, 04:19:54 PM
Well.....I'm an old broad and I've been on the stuff for over a year now. I'd like to see it live of to the dream of doing what I fantasized it would do. It has been a bit of a let down regarding that matter. Another year and another assessment I suppose.

What is it not doing, that you "fantasized" about it doing?

Quote from: Kendra on June 13, 2017, 12:49:15 AM
(Disclaimer - my first HRT/endo appointment is next month).

What would I change about HRT?  Sure would be nice if MTF HRT deleted all that facial hair without resorting to electricity.  And while we are at it, shorten vocal cords just a bit.  But even without those capabilities I'm looking forward to what it can do.

TWO THUMBS UP!

I wish there was something  you could take that would totally reverse the male puberty you went through but oh well that would be magic, or some futuristic nano-technology.  Things like facial structure, body size, etc, etc...

Quote from: LexiDreamer on June 13, 2017, 10:27:47 AM
What is it not doing, that you "fantasized" about it doing?

breast growth, hip growth, waist reduction, loss of muscular definition, a bit of feminizing to the face. Maybe, just maybe grown a tiny bit of hair back on my head. Almost every physical secondary sex marker I can think of................just the little stuff.    Oh........and before you comment that my levels are wrong, my T is usually at 25-30 and my E is almost always around 250-300. Been checked 4 times. So we can drop that conversation. In reference to physical results, the YMMV thing is REAL.