The FUN of Re-Starting Hormones after SRS

[Guest Valerie]

On the 17th of July I was given the go ahead to restart my Hormones, that I had been off of for 6 weeks.

I do miss the ability to sleep the entire night without having to get up every two hours to "Pee". Thank you Spiro for bringing the need to go to the bathroom every two hours back.

I am now having almost constant Hot and Cold Flashes again. Another thing I do not miss.

Thank you Cimetidine for taking away the Indigestion that I have had since I arrived in Thailand.

Did any of you Ladies experience any of these things when you restarted your hormones?

/Love

Valerie

[Charlize]

I am not post SRS but have learned to take my spiro as early in the afternoon as practical. I usually take it around 5 so when i head to bed i'm a little emptier already.

Hugs,

Charlie

[Guest]

Hi Valerie,

I didn't restart Spiro afterwards, having no need for T suppression or the diuretic effect of it. But, I still get up to pee in the middle of the night anyway.

I just think I'm obsessed with urination, myself. It was one of those things that was a most frequent reminder of my unwanted anatomy before, now a pleasant reminder of what is right down there instead.

I'm using injectable E, but didn't have notable withdrawal symptoms from it. I did notice the T coming back, with oily skin, hair loss, etc and was happy when those effects fell away after surgery removed those nasty T factories.

Love, Megan

[Guest Valerie]

Charlie;

I take my spiro in the morning and then again in the evening after dinner.

Megan;

Unfortunately my Endo was out of the Office with a medical issue three weeks before I left to Thailand and will not be back in the office until the middle of September. So, I am currently taking the PRE-SRS Hormones.

The fun of starting all over, or so it feels like it.

Yes, I noticed the oily skin, hair loss and the ease of getting upset over nothing.

Yes, I agree about the pleasant reminder about what is no longer there.

/Love

Valerie

[Guest LizMarie]

Unless you have hypertension issues, I'd guess your endo will likely terminate your spiro very soon. Hopefully that will be a thing of the past since you no longer have the means of producing the testosterone.

[Paula ult]

After my GCS spiro was stopped because the T factories were gone, i had slight hot flashes occasionally for a day or two after i restarted estradiol then they were gone, i was off estradiol for about 4 weeks, unless you have other medical conditions that require you to still be on spiro can you call your surgeon and get his advise as to whether you still need to take spiro.

Paula

[VickySGV]

I was off the Spiro for 14 days before surgery, and my major issue was grumpiness and BP up about 5 notches from where it had usually been. My use of Spiro is for the high blood pressure as well as the anti-T qualities. The spiro was restarted with my first set of morning meds the day after surgery and I was told to go back to my earlier dose. Blood pressure got back to my general range by the end of the day.

Dr. Bowers does not take her patients off of Estrogen completely before the surgery, and my normal dose was below her threshold, so until the morning of the surgery I was able to use it. I was only off of it completely the day of surgery and until 2am the second day after surgery. (36 hours) At that point I was given twice my normal dosage until I had the packing and catheter removed and was told I could head on back south to my home. My endo had been called and she had let me know to take her dose when that happened. Net result was that I did not really have time to miss the estrogen, and I was too darn miserable anyway to have noticed.

[Guest NatashaJade]

I'm not sure why you're still taking Spiro. Trust me, when you get your first bloodwork back and see where your T levels are, you'll see why spiro serves no purpose for you except to keep your blood pressure low and make you pee.

Here's my take on the issue of stopping hrt before surgery:

It was no big deal. I really didn't notice it at all except that I had some resurgence of body hair growth. So it goes. I think it's a big deal if you make it one.

But then again, I spent the last two weeks before surgery meditating constantly to remain calm in the face of the storm of pre-surgery anxiety I was feeling (aside from a vasectomy, I had not had anything like a surgery before and had never been knocked out)

Tasha

[Guest Leah1026]

Like Vicky I saw Dr Bowers, in my case several years ago, and did not have to stop estrogen. My FFS surgeon also let his patients stay on HRT. I have been on continuous HRT for almost a decade now. I use injectables, so what I did was inject the day before I went for SRS and then again the day after I got back. As I've said many times: I'll stop taking estrogen the day they pry the vial out of my cold, dead hands.