My doctor prescribed me estradiol gel, I been on for
2 weeks now so far no side effects, but my qu
estion is this how long can it take for my breasts to grow into A cups, and how long for my chest and facial hairs to be gone

removed dosage information - Nicole

No dosage info should be posted here so you might want to edit that detail out to avoid being in breach of forum rules. The rule is partly to protect you by the way, because if someone self medicates, came to some harm from it, and then claimed that they were told the dosage info by you they MIGHT just try to claim that you were partly responsible.

As regards time taken to develop that will vary from one person to another.

As regards facial hair that WILL NOT be affected at all.

The only way to stop that is via laser or electrolysis treatment.

Estrogen won't effect facial hair, Or chest hair.

Hormone blockers will have slight effect but only some effect on facial hair (I had alot of facial hair for someone my age I lost about... 30%-40% but I still have to get electrolysis it is a long haul (She reckoned it will take 2 years)). It will have a reasonable effect on body hair.

I've been on the intramuscular injection for 5 months now which is supposed to be one of the quicker acting estrogen delivery methods and I am still not quite at A Cup.

Be Patient!

Thank you Nichol, for updatting this .  It is not easy. Modify text while in a android phone.

I hate the idea of those injections!
I use Estrogel and yesterday the endo said its working fine for me so I'm sticking with it.

the injections are really not so bad (in my opinion). after your 2nd or 3rd shot it's no big deal.

Quote from: rejennyrated on July 27, 2010, 03:42:20 AM
No dosage info should be posted here so you might want to edit that detail out to avoid being in breach of forum rules. The rule is partly to protect you by the way, because if someone self medicates, came to some harm from it, and then claimed that they were told the dosage info by you they MIGHT just try to claim that you were partly responsible.

As regards time taken to develop that will vary from one person to another.

As regards facial hair that WILL NOT be affected at all.

The only way to stop that is via laser or electrolysis treatment.

Please don't pretend the no-dosage rule is for everyone's benefit... it's quite obvious it's simply choosing to put people at increased risk for the sake of legal protection of the site (and honestly I can't see the site being sued on these grounds anyway).

It's similar to the concept of prohibiting people from owning syringes to stop people using IV drugs. People still inject drugs, they just do it in a way that's even more unsafe.

But... enough of me trying to get myself banned and onto what I hit reply to say... 

You're wrong about facial hair.... mine has about 80% or so reduced from HRT alone... enough that you can't even really see it now, especially since most of what's left is light and blond too.

Quote from: drippin on July 27, 2010, 12:36:46 PM
the injections are really not so bad (in my opinion). after your 2nd or 3rd shot it's no big deal.

This is really... really true.

I used to be the biggest needle phobe on the planet after a traumatic incident as a kid (I was forcibly sedated with a needle), and I don't mean that it was hard for me to have them, I mean it was next to impossible.

Now I have MS and have to inject myself every 48 hours (150+ injections + 7 blood tests in the past 12 months) and my needle phobia is 100% gone. I can stick myself without a 2nd thought. I can't speak for others, but I have found it doesn't generally hurt.

Just thought I'd throw that out there. 

It took about 3 years of HRT for me to develop A-cups. Most will tell you that you're as big as you're going to get after 2 1/2.  I started at 35 but if you're much younger you might see better results, earlier.
As previously stated, facial hair, statistically speaking, is not effected. Body hair took a long time to go away for me (I had lots to start with) but it was pretty much gone after 4 years.

As of August 10th I have been on estradiol and spironolactone for a year.  I started out as a 38AA and am now completely filling a 38 B.  It all depends on your body, your genetics, your metabolism and your dosages.  I have gotten lucky so far as my mother is an A cup.  Everybody is different.  Just be patient, damn seems like someone told me the same thing a year ago.  It takes a natal born female years to develop her breasts, so just enjoy the transition process.

I was at a friends house to help them move to their new place there 9 year old Kid came right out and asked her dad, Why does he have orange hair and why does he have small size breasts? right in front of 14 people. a few other said She does ask a good question. so I told them I was on HRT and why I was on HRT. i was expecting the worse anyone else have had that happen and is honesty realy he best poilice in this type of case?

Quote from: koolstacy on July 31, 2010, 02:00:48 AM
I was at a friends house to help them move to their new place there 9 year old Kid came right out and asked her dad, Why does he have orange hair and why does he have small size breasts? right in front of 14 people. a few other said She does ask a good question. so I told them I was on HRT and why I was on HRT. i was expecting the worse anyone else have had that happen and is honesty realy he best poilice in this type of case?

yep...we all want to know why you have orange hair!   

But you should have defused the situation by saying that you are changing into a woman.
They have all seen dozens of other transitioners on telly - Jerry Springer? -and are familiar with the idea although you are probably the first one they have been close to - and infected by!