Third Year Of HRT Changes

[NancyDrew1930]

So today I had a first for me.  And that was using the women's restroom at work or anywhere for that matter.  Since I came out in May, all the places where I needed to use the restroom had unisex bathrooms, or in the case of my work, a "family bathroom".  At work for the last six months we weren't sure the other women on staff (or other women from off the street, since we don't have restrooms dedicated to just employees, so we weren't sure if there might be issues from your average Jane Doe) would react to me using the women's, so they I agreed with them to use the family bathroom.  But that bathroom was out of order today, so I had to use the women's, and the first time I was the only one in there, then the second time there was someone from off the street in there and when we were both at the sink washing our hands, she didn't seem concerned that I was in there.  To her I was just another woman doing her thing.

[Lori Dee ✅]

she didn't seem concerned that I was in there.  To her I was just another woman doing her thing.

As my dad would say, "90% of the things we worry about never happen."

Every time nothing happens, it just reassures us that nothing will. Eventually, we reach the point where we head for the ladies' room without even thinking about it.

[NancyDrew1930]

So today I was on the phone with someone and they asked me if I was 18, because they thought they were talking to a teenage girl on the phone!  I wasn't expecting that!

[NancyDrew1930]

Another interesting thing today, and that's that my breasts are still not done growing!  The past few days my 54B bra's have been feeling a little snug on the inner most clasps, and they were still feeling a little snug on the outer clasps. 

So today I tried on a 56C bra and WOW!  Does it ever feel comfortable and my bra straps seem to be staying in place better (lately even when I shortened the straps, I was finding that they were still slipping down my arms and sleeves). 

Nice to know that even 3.5 years later, my breasts are still growing.  However I think I have heard that a lot of breast growth, just like in cis girls, occurs like 5 to 6 years after puberty starts.  Of course I'm still wondering how much I will loose when I loose weight. 

[Tills]

Congratulations Nancy on the breast growth: that's awesome.

I think I'm right in saying that even when you lose weight elsewhere your breasts won't diminish in size.

xx

[Charlotte_Ringwood]

Great to hear you still getting breast growth. I read some paper saying that growth really slowed after 6 months which was worrying, but I'm hearing more reports like yours from the community.

😻

[Lori Dee ✅]

Great to hear you still getting breast growth. I read some paper saying that growth really slowed after 6 months which was worrying, but I'm hearing more reports like yours from the community.

😻

Most HRT guidelines state that breast growth starts at 6 months. If you figure that as when you start puberty, they should keep growing for the next 5-10 years, depending on other factors. Interestingly, those same guidelines indicate growth stops after about 2-3 years. That would indicate that teenage girls' growth stops when they are 13 or 14 years old, and we know that isn't true. Welcome to the confusing world of transgender medicine.

Anyway, congrats, Nancy!

[NancyDrew1930]

So yesterday I had to do a test to see if a bacterial infection I had had been eliminated with the prescriptions the doctors gave me.  I had to go on these meds before my weight loss surgery, otherwise the h pylori that was detected in my blood, might cause complications during the surgery (it was a case where I wasn't showing any signs before this blood test detected the h pylori).  Well, I know that I'll never get pregnant and never get the chance to experience morning sickness, however, from the medications to treat h pylori, I believe I have a very good idea of what women who are pregnant go through when they complain about having morning sickness and are extremely nauseous and are constantly throwing up (I wasn't throwing up, but I was very nauseous for the two weeks I was on the medication and even a few days after I ran out of the medication).

Anyway, yesterday I had the urea breath test, and I got the results a few hours later sayin that I blew a negative.  However, what was even more exciting, was that in the report, the lab technician wrote that I was a female.  Not a transfemale or transwoman, just female, which I really found gratifying, getting at least one medical report back where I was just a woman in the report.  I'm trying to figure out how to get the hospital's record system (and it's a provincial system that even my family doctor uses, so it's difficulty finding out where to go) to get my legal sex changed from male to female, since all they require is to see, besides my health card (its a seperate system from the health card system), is a piece of government I.D., like a driver's license with my legal sex showing female on it, however, its to find out who is able to change that part, since right now the system has me listed as a Transgender Female, but Legal Sex is Male. 

But still it was exciting to see just that one line with "XX-year-old Female".

[Lori Dee ✅]

however, its to find out who is able to change that part, since right now the system has me listed as a Transgender Female, but Legal Sex is Male. 

Hi Nancy!

That is a great feeling, isn't it? I noticed on my mammogram chart that it said, Sex: Female.

Here in the States, you would talk to the Hospital Administration or Patient Accounts. They handle the non-medical aspects. I am sure your system has something similar. At the VA hospital in South Dakota, the Administration Office made the change for me: name and gender, and gave me a new ID card showing the change.

Good luck.

[NancyDrew1930]

So I just had another interesting thing tonight.

I got one of those nuisance calls that had a male from like India or one of those Asian countries (he had the accent from one of the countries in that region of the world), you know, calling "on behalf of" whatever the company name was.  I hung up after he said that.

But what was interesting about this call was that based solely on my voice, this guy called me Ma'am.  So I haven't had any voice training or surgery and yet lately on the phone my voice is registering as a female voice and it's throwing people, just like I could tell that it threw this guy who called me.  Because of my intersex condition my voice never dropped that low (people find it odd that when I laugh it's a high pitched laugh, before transitioning a lot of people found it sounded almost a feminine cackle, like the Wicked Witch of the East cackled in "The Wizard of Oz"), and while I know estrogen, progesterone and Cyproterone and spinaralactone are not supposed to change the voice like testosterone does for ftm's, I wonder if I'm maybe one of the rare ones where it is helping to lighten and feminize my voice.  Plus I could be learning how to speak more femininely by observing the women around me.