Just came back from my doctor - she was VERY helpful and VERY supportive. She's going to ask around for a therapist in my area that i can talk to and get the proper notes from for the transition (if there are none, she knows of one about 45 minutes from me) and she's referring me to an endocrinologist!

She said if all goes well i COULD be on T by February, but WILL be on it by spring.    Depends on the endo i go to and what they require to start.

So, how long did it take everyone here to get on T? For notes to chance gender markers on legal papers? Name change?

((If you can't tell, i'm thrilled))

Congrats man!  Wow, February huh?  You're so lucky. 

Congratulations!

Congrats!

It took me technically a year but once I started therapy it has been about 4 months. I will be starting within a week or 2. (yay!) And I can't get a letter in PA to change my gender marker until I get surgery(bottom surgery unfortunately unless I have an amazing doctor who is willing to write an ambiguous letter.) And I am working on the name change but the attorney is super expensive.

Congrats! 

Wow, gratz! Plenty of reason to be psyched.

congrats bro

as for the name chance, i believe it different for different states, for my state i believe you have chest surgery in order to get the legal name change. they should have it on your state website.

Thanks!

I kind of expected her to give me like, a "i'll get back to you within the next couple of months" because its the holidays AND i didn't really expect her to know what needs to be done. But she said she should have appointments for the week after Christmas (or the following week) and she knew EXACTLY what i needed to do.

I think i'll keep her! Lol.

Quote from: FolkFanatic on December 15, 2009, 05:37:28 PM
Thanks!

I kind of expected her to give me like, a "i'll get back to you within the next couple of months" because its the holidays AND i didn't really expect her to know what needs to be done. But she said she should have appointments for the week after Christmas (or the following week) and she knew EXACTLY what i needed to do.

I think i'll keep her! Lol.

That's awesome, I actually had to switch primary care doctors to ones that actually knew anything about it.

CONGRATS MAN!!

every state and doctor is different...

i had to go to 3 months of therapy (which wasnt necessary, i had been seeing my therapist for years and when i told her i was transgender, she said bout damn time...so i got my letter that day)

and then i got my first appointment with my endocrinologist on august 17th 2009...and he gave me some homework to do like the proper procedure on getting my name changed, embryo freezing, signing a waiver and agreement with him and my HRT...

i did some bloodwork that day...and got the go ahead and my Rx for T that following week...and took my first shot of T september 13th....

TN doesnt offer gender marker changes....yet....so nothing going on with that...

but congrats and enjoy the journey!

Congrats! 

that's so awesome. glad to hear that you've got a doc on your side. keep us posted.

Congratulations! That is great.

no surgeries are required for a name change. you can change it cause its your stage name if you want to. or just cause that's what everyone calls you any way.

Congrats bro!

It makes it better when u have supportive docs who r willing to help and just dont brush u off if they dont know what to do.  February is just around the corner so dont blame u for being thrilled! Its definitly a huge leap in the right direction

Cheers,
Joshua

Quote from: JoshB on December 16, 2009, 03:26:48 AM
Congrats bro!

It makes it better when u have supportive docs who r willing to help and just dont brush u off if they dont know what to do.  February is just around the corner so dont blame u for being thrilled! Its definitly a huge leap in the right direction

Cheers,
Joshua

Yeah, i was nervous that my doc wouldn't know anything about it. Glad she did or i would have been bummed.

My parents noticed my good mood yesterday. Guess i was TOO enthusiastic..... Oops? I blamed it on the christmas cookies - our recipe makes about eight dozen of them    That's a LOT of cookies.

Eey, awesome news!

I went to see my doc last week, she didn't really know much about it, though she's had two MtF patients before (but not been involved in their transitions). She seemed very interested to learn more about it though, was very nice and supportive, and said she's going to find me a local therapist too. o/

it's so good to see and hear that the medical field is getting more and more receptive  and open to helping us get through our live comfortably and easily...thats awesome and great news!!

In Oregon I could change my gender marker  on my drivers license with a letter from my therapist. For Social Security it took a letter from my top surgeon. name change you can do whenever you want , I didn't need anything just the forms and money, also in Oregon.
Congrats
Andrew/Myles

how did you get your doctor to do that? is it just a doctor you go to for general checkups? did you just tell her about wanting to transition and that's it?