Charlotte's scratch post

[ChrissyRyan]

I hope the cut heals quickly.

Chrissy

[Emma1017]

I hope the body hair fades for you as your body gets tuned to the HRT.

[tammy753]

I have been lucky my chest hair stopped I have some white hairs but it takes a few minutes to get rid of.

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

If the hair doesn't fade I'll probably consider going gender non conforming and let it grow! I don't really agree women should have to shave, but feel on a back foot with being trans. I'm just hoping injected will help as 16 months HRT so far hasn't.  My body refuses to get the message. I even have hairy fingers and ears. Its really tough!

[Stottie Girl]

If the hair doesn't fade I'll probably consider going gender non conforming and let it grow! I don't really agree women should have to shave, but feel on a back foot with being trans. I'm just hoping injected will help as 16 months HRT so far hasn't.  My body refuses to get the message. I even have hairy fingers and ears. Its really tough!

Just pretend you are french!

[davina61]

I still have hairs on my fingers and dont get me started on nose and ear hairs, good job they are white and not showing. Leg hair (what there is) is dark but so fine the shaver misses them around back of my knees.

[Devlyn ✅]

It isn't cheap, but you can get a mass clearing with pain blockers at some clinics. One or two sessions and it's done.

[Courtney G]

It took a while for me, but the unwanted body hair did go away. I had hairs on my fingers and toes and was still shaving them two years into HRT. But they gradually faded away and I'm not quite sure when that occurred. I expect you'll experience some version of that, especially since switching to injections.

[tammy753]

I still have hair on the back of my hands. I have to shave it off but it takes a long time to come back. I considered waxing it but I need my hands to wax my hands and haven't learned telekinesis, I really need to work on that someday.

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

Thankies all. Sounds very promising that the hairs will subside eventually. I'll be happy if they go soft and fluffy tbh. Just hard primary hairs are hard work!

I am up for more electrolysis, just all my focus is on getting my privates done as GRS is rapidly approaching. It's about 5 months so only 4 months of hair clearance to go really. It'll be here before i know it.

But I'll be getting the white hairs and remaining black ones around my top lip sorted first.

[Laura Squirrel]

Thankies all. Sounds very promising that the hairs will subside eventually. I'll be happy if they go soft and fluffy tbh. Just hard primary hairs are hard work!

I am up for more electrolysis, just all my focus is on getting my privates done as GRS is rapidly approaching. It's about 5 months so only 4 months of hair clearance to go really. It'll be here before i know it.

But I'll be getting the white hairs and remaining black ones around my top lip sorted first.

Wait. Didn't you already have GRS? Or am I mixing things up? You had some stuff done in some form, didn't you? Forgive me if I sound like a moron. I'm just really irritated right now and it's screwing with my thinking.

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

Wait. Didn't you already have GRS? Or am I mixing things up? You had some stuff done in some form, didn't you? Forgive me if I sound like a moron. I'm just really irritated right now and it's screwing with my thinking.

Nooo...I've had some FFS in way of brow bone reduction, brow lift and rhinoplasty.

GRS and BA 1st February. So my late Christmas present.

[Laura Squirrel]

Nooo...I've had some FFS in way of brow bone reduction, brow lift and rhinoplasty.

GRS and BA 1st February. So my late Christmas present.

Oh, okay. My mistake. I can't keep anything straight.

[Rochelle]

When I started with the herbals, I could easily see hair on my chest, but after about 18 month of them, it faded alot. Less than a year on full HRT now and I have to look to see anything and it's just peach fuzz under a light. I never had alot to begin with. It's like HRT, YMMV. It can be different for everyone. 💚

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

Well i got my results back from my bloods and is exactly as expected. My trough E is 576pmol/l which is just slightly under what the transfemmescience calculator predicted for 6mg EV each 7 days. This means the peak would be around 1600. I could drop to 5mg but ive been feeling good so will decide.

Progesterone reads 13nmol/l where I was below 1 before starting P. T is the same at about 0.5 as still taking CPA.

Hopeful this is the route my body needs!

[Laura Squirrel]

Well i got my results back from my bloods and is exactly as expected. My trough E is 576pmol/l which is just slightly under what the transfemmescience calculator predicted for 6mg EV each 7 days. This means the peak would be around 1600. I could drop to 5mg but ive been feeling good so will decide.

Progesterone reads 13nmol/l where I was below 1 before starting P. T is the same at about 0.5 as still taking CPA.

Hopeful this is the route my body needs!

I hope it works out. It's a lot better once you find a dose that just works.

[Stottie Girl]

Well i got my results back from my bloods and is exactly as expected. My trough E is 576pmol/l which is just slightly under what the transfemmescience calculator predicted for 6mg EV each 7 days. This means the peak would be around 1600. I could drop to 5mg but ive been feeling good so will decide.

Progesterone reads 13nmol/l where I was below 1 before starting P. T is the same at about 0.5 as still taking CPA.

Hopeful this is the route my body needs!

Sounds promising Charlotte. I would leave the doses the same for a few moths to see how things develop personally. I wonder if you haven't been getting enough estrogen into your system and that's why you feel your body isn't changing fast enough. Fingers crossed for you.

[Laura Squirrel]

Sounds promising, Charlotte. I would leave the doses the same for a few months to see how things develop personally. I wonder if you haven't been getting enough estrogen into your system,m and that's why you feel your body isn't changing fast enough. Fingers crossed for you.

YES! YES! YES! Don't mess around with this. I did this in, I think, '08 or '09. My first endo closed his practice. I freaked out and contacted the first entry in the list of three that was provided. If I had my head on straight, I would have seen an entry for a hospital I was already going to for other issues. But I was so freaked out that I wasn't thinking clearly.

I went to some dumb internal medicine clinic that had ZERO experience working with trans patients. These geniuses let me dictate the damn dose. How stupid is that? I'm not a doctor, and I don't play one on TV, either. So, I said, "yo, homie, why don't ya double that dose, yo?" and the idiots did it. It had me so screwed up.

Once I went to the person that I should've contacted in the first place, she just shook her head in disbelief. (She was also shocked by the fact that I didn't poo or wee... that's a Dead Milkmen reference). She told me, flat-out, that there was no way in hell that she would've allowed a patient to do that and gave me hell for it. She also set me straight on some of my fears. I was suffering from certain growing pains that I didn't even think were possible given the fact that I was in my early 30s.

Don't screw around. You screw around too much, and you're gonna have a bad time.

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

Thanks Sarah and Laura.

My levels have always been well within the WPATH recommendations though never near the top. In fairness in the early days I was mindful not to push too high due to risks of premature cessation of brest growth and in cis puberty the first year levels are lower. Now seems the right time to increase. However I question the WPATH levels when the reference ranges on my test docs show <500pmol/l E to be post menopausal. Surely for feminization wr should be aiming above menopause levels, at least later in the process. 

I think also certain bodies e.g. mine need much higher levels on average. Maybe some feminise lower but I feel this is all still very much understudied. Anecdotally the benefits people cite after going to injected support the theory that large peaks of E are beneficial.

Honestly i feel a lot more emotionally stable and awake since injected, although exercise undoubtedly is helping. 

I'm keeping this exactly as it is for now.

[Laura Squirrel]

I think also certain bodies e.g. mine need much higher levels on average.

Well, everyone reacts differently to medications. I remember when I would be in the old chat back in the day. I was talking about how finasteride made me highly suicidal and death-obsessed. Others talked about Estrace doing that to them, and I was like, "Whoa, that's wild," since E never did that to me.