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Hey everyone, I haven't been around alot lately, just wanted to say i started my hrt yesterday. ya for me lol. i just wanna say those are some expensive Rx. lol

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Hey everyone, I haven't been around alot lately, just wanted to say i started my hrt yesterday. ya for me lol. i just wanna say those are some expensive Rx. lol

Congratulations Sister,

Welcome to your womanhood.

And can we call you something beside geekgirl? just wondering....

Hugs to you,

Angie

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Guest Donna Jean

Yeah, Hon....

Ya want us to just shorten it to "Geek"?

Gratz on the HRT, Baby! That's sweeeeet!

Oh, and what do you mean about the Rx price? Pretty high?

How much did you pay? For what...you can say, just not doseages...

HUGGS!

Donna Jean

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Guest Donna Jean
Yea lol I go by Kali prounouced Kay - lee.

umm let me see i have estradiol, spironolactone, and finasteride. a 30 days supply is like 140 bucks. lol

Ok.

Kali it is!

And .......30days for $140?

I think the finasteride is the bad one...check it out!

Wow, Baby ...That's a lot!

Love

Donna Jean

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Guest Melissa Marie

Jealous....soooooo jealous!!!! Congrats on the hrt! I want some!!!! In time I will get there. Is there like a discount place you can get your meds from? I think like walmart pharmacy has them for like 4 bucks for a script of 30 days. I would check around.

That is waaaaay high to be paying for your meds.

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Guest Joanna Phipps
Jealous....soooooo jealous!!!! Congrats on the hrt! I want some!!!! In time I will get there. Is there like a discount place you can get your meds from? I think like walmart pharmacy has them for like 4 bucks for a script of 30 days. I would check around.

That is waaaaay high to be paying for your meds.

Melissa if the op is on finasteride or dutasteride those will run the bill through the roof, there are no generics for eithr of them yet since the original developer still has them patented.

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Guest Melissa Marie
Melissa if the op is on finasteride or dutasteride those will run the bill through the roof, there are no generics for eithr of them yet since the original developer still has them patented.

I was never on those drugs....thank god. Yes, they are pricey :( I thought maybe there could be a discounted version of it somewhere....ouch!!!

I am glad I won't need those 2. As my T level is only 7. That is even low for a gg. So, I just need to get back on my E and P diet. ;)

Still happy for her that she is getting her treatment though :) :) :)

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Congrats, Kali! That is a fantastic milestone. You are on the bullet train to womanhood now. :)

I suggest checking around for cheaper meds. I have estradiol and finasteride too, and I get my scrips filled at the local GLBT center. It only costs me about $8

a month for both. I hope you can find something similar.

Welcome to the HRT in 2010 Club, hon. We have a growing membership. Yay!

Carolyn Marie

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Congrats, Kali! That is a fantastic milestone. You are on the bullet train to womanhood now. :)

I suggest checking around for cheaper meds. I have estradiol and finasteride too, and I get my scrips filled at the local GLBT center. It only costs me about $8

a month for both. I hope you can find something similar.

Welcome to the HRT in 2010 Club, hon. We have a growing membership. Yay!

Carolyn Marie

wow thats cheaper lol, i don't think there are and GLBT centers around me, i live in bfe IL lol, had to drive 2 hours just to get to the doc lol.

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Congrats Kali!! Just wait for a few weeks till you start getting a little iching going on around your nipples.

I get my presc filled at costco and for a 3 month supply the only expensive one is the finasteride. I think it was around $200?? I know the price there was way cheaper then at walmart for it. When I first got the prescrip for finasteride, I checked their prices and they wanted like almost $600.

Carolyn, you get them that cheap at your LGBT center? Wow is that a wonderful price. I will have to check to see if that is a possiblity for me from Detroit's center.

Ohhh, and Kali, 2 hour drive....pffft, that is short! LOL, I have a 4 and 1/2 hour drive for my HRT doctor and therapist.....northern MI is like the black hole of LGBT support.

Congrats again on HRT! Get your friends and have an alcohol free party!! (I admit I kind of cheated a bit on no alcohol, but only a little teeny bit, really!!)

Love and *hugs*

Mae

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Guest BeckyTG
Yea lol I go by Kali prounouced Kay - lee.

umm let me see i have estradiol, spironolactone, and finasteride. a 30 days supply is like 140 bucks. lol

Kali,

First off, congratulations on your start. It's a wonderful thing to do and welcome to the group.

I'm paying almost the same here. The finasteride is the kicker, as it's about $70 a month. The S is a cheap one that IS on the $6 list at both Walgreen's and Wal-Mart.

My understanding of the Estradiol that's cheap is the pill and the transdermal patch is expensive. I'm on the patch and those also run in the $60 or so a month range. Supposedly, the patch is much easier on the liver than the pill. Injections would be the other way to save money on E without taking pills.

As much as I've put my liver through in my life, I want to be as easy on it as I can now...... :D

I joined Walgreen's "discount plan" and compared it to Wal-Mart and there was virtually no difference in price. We don't have Costco around here.

Hugs,

Becky

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Kali,

Angie is correct, it does not take a whole pill of Finasteride to do the job, i get estradiol and spiro at walmart, these are on the $4 list, my Avodart is $35. every 2 months, $140 is a pretty steep price to pay per month, you can do much better. I take Avodart, spiro and estradiol, i pay no more than $25. a

month.

Paula

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Guest geek_girl
Congrats, Kali! I hope you find a way to mitigate the cost of the prescriptions. Even still, you're in for a wonderful new world.

luv

Gin

who knows lol. maybe if i had a real job, working 15 hours a week for min wage doesn't help much. lol sure am glad i went to college lol.

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well i've been on my hormones for about a month now. its going pretty good, for the first week i had some headachs now i'm good though. I feel calmer and not so irritable. :D

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Guest RachaelAnn
Yea lol I go by Kali prounouced Kay - lee.

umm let me see i have estradiol, spironolactone, and finasteride. a 30 days supply is like 140 bucks. lol

You want an expensive med? Ever heard of Seroquel? It's a med I'm on and it runs about $1,500 for a 30 day supply. Give or take a hundred bucks.

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Guest Maelee
well i've been on my hormones for about a month now. its going pretty good, for the first week i had some headachs now i'm good though. I feel calmer and not so irritable. :D

Spironolactone I think is the one that says it may causes dizziness. I started taking it on a Saturday and the following Monday when I went to work I was stumbling around the whole day like I totally loaded. It was almost comical if not for how potentially dangerous it was for me (I do construction work). No sense of dizziness but it must of been enough to totally throw me off balance. After about a week I must of adapted to it. Now I am back to just being my usual clutzy self.

Love and *hugs*

Mae

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Guest Donna Jean

Hey, Mae......

Me, too..on the Spiro.

When I first started taking it ...it made me dizzy and light headed...

I think that the problem was that I was already taking a blood pressure med that lowered my BP...Spiro also lowers BP...

It did get better after a bit!

HUGGS!

Donna Jean

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Guest geek_girl

i didn't have any dizzyness but for like a week i had horrible headachs and was really pissy, but now i feel great, i dunno if it was the meds or the fact that i had to actully go to work for 5 days in a row lol.

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