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3 month HRT update.


Guest Elena

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Well here we go, only 2 days shy of 3 months of HRT, and still on my starter dosages...

WOW, lots of stuff going on!

Mental: Yes, I am fully aware that I am... That's not what I mean though. Initially I noticed a dramatic drop in the steadily increasing chaos of my thoughts. Then a suddenly fluid connection between thoughts and emotions. That connection was actually very dificult to deal with because of the distraction factor. I found that my old coping techniques for the chaotic thoughts are helpful still, and what more are becoming less and less necessary. Yay!!!

Ok, that's it. Update done, that right there is more than enough to make it all worth it. Truly beyond anything I could have imagined or hoped for!!!

<3

Elena

Oh, come on, you didn't really think I was gonna leave y'all hanging like that did you?

Shall we continue then?

Body Shaping and HRT Voodoo (as Cadence so eloquently put it) I have lost 15# but not until yesterday really figured out where it came from. In general I have always had extremely high muscle density rather than bulk, I could lift weights and carry loads on my very slight frame that men with apparently 2-3 times as much muscle as I carried would have difficulty with, and more often than not for longer periods. Yeah, not so much anymore. The tape measure hasn't wiggled one bit around my calves, thighs, forearms or biceps. What has changed is that when I flex said muscles they are much much softer and no longer remotely resemble their steel-like former incarnation. There has been one area however where the tape measure shows a marked difference, my ribcage measured @ the bra band has shrunk from 34 1/4" mean average fully inflated/deflated lungs to 33" even. Wowsers! Totally unexpected. Yeah, that means my bras are now comfortably hooked in the middle eyes instead of snugly on the last hooks, and here I thought they were just stretching out!

Otherwise changes to my body shape/measurements are virtually identical with only a very slight increase in the hips. Ahh, now those with a mind for math and geometry especially are scratching their heads... Yes my chest got smaller, but my bust most definately has not! In fact relatively speaking it has increased by said differential. That's right folks, breast development has been chugging right along. Now according to the elusive Tanner stages, I still qualify as early stage 2 based on shape and characteristics of the nipples/areola to which there has been no change other than sensativity. The glandular tissue behind said externals, has been going bonkers and driving me in the same direction along the way. At this point lifting my arm above my shoulders moves the girls enough to make my eyes water. I'm getting very good at doing just about everything with elbows clamped to my sides or risk the little minxes wrath! As to actual size, the as yet rock hard glands are a little less than 2" in diameter and 7/8" thick thinning out toward the edges, with a slight amount of surrounding soft tissue. All told they are definately taking a female shape and beginning to project somewhat already.

I am you could say estatic!!!!!!!!!

Naw, that's way too mild. :D:lol:

General Furryness and Skin: I had early indications that body hair would be noticeably impacted in the form of selected areas simply not growing or as I put it, taking a siesta for a couple days at a time. Well, it hasn't given up the fight, but it seems that each interruption has slightly reduced the thickness and darkness of the fur in the affected areas. Hair on my upper arms and hands has completely lost all color and forearms aren't far behind. Leg hair has been affected similarly, though not quite as drastically. Chest and torso much less so. Underarms actually have dramatically reduced their growth rates etceterra, and the lower abdomen has thinned out as spectacularly.

Skin has continued to thin and smooth out at it's own pace, and is sucking up lotion faster and faster as well. For some reason I have a much harder time gauging progress in this regard. Ohh well, there is some, just elusive in it's nature I guess.

Well, there you have the full scoop, as it were. And in a couple more weeks I'll be getting MY full scoop of E, woohoo!

<3

Elena (For really this time.)

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I'll get you guys, girls, and sundry others a pic later after I've had a chance to clean up... Been driving all night, and finding myself a bit offensive just now.

<3

Elena

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Guest Donna Jean

I'll get you guys, girls, and sundry others a pic later after I've had a chance to clean up... Been driving all night, and finding myself a bit offensive just now.

<3

Elena

That's funny....you don't sound offensive....

pics.....

Dee Jay

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Guest Lacey Lynne

Elena:

As my Old Man used to say:

"Now, you're cookin' with gas!!!"

Let your light shine brightly, babes!!!

Peace :thumbsup: Lacey

Postscript:

Sometime, whenever you're parked at a truck stop and just chilling out, fire the trusty laptop (or netbook), go to YouTube and search for the song "Lovelight" by The Grateful Dead (hopefully with Pigpen (Ron McKernan) singing the lead which would be 1972 or earlier), and know that they're singing YOUR song!

Elena the Effulgent !!!

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Guest Lacey Lynne

Of COURSE, it's redunant? Aging hippies like me are redundant by definition, out of date by choice and out of synch with joy!

Peace & Hugs :friends: Lacey Lynne

Postscript:

Ya, got me, babes! Ya GOT me! Ha, I'm so flamoozled ... hee hee!

Also, check out The Grateful Dead doing "Sugar Magnolia/Sunshine and Day Dream" in the later 1970s!!!

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Cade,

We got more to gab about since I whipped out the tape...

DJ,

Yes, I know the rules. You can say anything you want on the www but without pics it didn't happen. I'm getting to it, can't stop and get dolled up anytime I like out on the road here. :P

Megan,

Thanks hon.

I have to admit to being worried the girls are learning too well, especially with what is normal on both sides of my family. I know it's still too early to really tell, but considering I am not in my teens or twenties even and still on starter E dosages... Well it has me wondering. Not that I don't want nice breasts, but I am worried about being proportional mostly. (I think I've gotten over my hangup about the attention factor, with my forms I am effectively @ a generous C and well, kinda liking it. :D )

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Guest eliza.d

Congratulations Elena! Im almost a month into my hrt and I look forward to what the future will bring.

Be safe out there, oh btw, i didnt mean to remove you as a friend in my messages I hit the wrong button. I was wondering why I havent heard from you. Oh well, I know youre busy too.

Lacey Lynn, I knew you were one cool chick. Unbroken chain by the dead on the mars hotel album is my favorite, darn hard to play on the guitar too. i still have all of my hundreds of bootlegged tapes, dead, wsp, and phish.

I actually restored a 73 vw westy bus in college. i was a hippie too. sadly my bus got destroyed by a hurricane in florida when we lived there. i still miss it.

I always wanted a split window with the side folding dormobile top.

One day, maybe ill find one left over from the migration when I get to san francisco.

Oh well,

I may be going to hell in a bucket, but at least Ill enjoy the ride!

Eliza

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