2nd year on Hormones

[Raven1981]

Yesterday, I was so tired all day and my whole body was so wore out. Thinking now on why I felt so wore out / tired and I did feel like I was having growing pains is that I have notice my body really changed and is showing very feminine. The obvious is my breast, and then I have a curved figure and my hips popped out along with my butt filled out and got rounder and firmer. There is still parts of my body that I do not like, but I am super happy with how noticeable I look.  They are right that on the second year and third year being on hormones that your body changes really take off on hormones.  I am so happy with how I am looking and feeling till I see my birth defect,  When I see my birth defect, bad thought come back into my head and just wanting it gone.  But the rest of my body, I am in heaven with and love how I am looking and feeling

[Charlize]

I wish i had a like button because i certainly like and understand your post.

 

Hugs,

 

Charlize

[Lexi C]

unless your birth defect is baldness( which I have and it sucks) then I would not worry. You look amazing

[Maid In Bedlam]

Hunny Let me tell you something.

I have been on my HRT for getting on 3 years.

In the first six months other than a bit here and there. I never got anything. perhaps in the interestes of safety I started on a low dose. So not much was really going to happen unless I was very resoponsive to estrogen. my dose was raised every six months. until i was on the highest my gender consultant was going to give. Im on patches btw because i was an X  smoker and my age.

It took a long time for my body to blossom. In the last Year I have had more signs of puberty than I ever had.

Everything changed. I grew on top and shrank at the bottom  Trust me I was hung like a babboon. If you get my meaning. if I had kept them then i guess it would be like a penny whistle now.

now the down side. I hurt every day. I have a growing pain here or an un diagnoisable ache there.

In the last year my hips have come out My arse filled out to resemble a nice ripe peach from a small plum.. My bust has has increased to the point now that if i go to my normal Doctor who doesnt specialise in gender then as what happened the other week when i went to see him, about a discomfort in my chest. Which turned out to be nothing. I was asked if i had implants. My bust is on another planet as far as discomfort goes. That aches where the ligaments havent caught up yet.  I have trouble sleeping because i keep on laying on them.

There is an up side. I look at least ten years younger. I know this as people do ask me my age and when i tell them for real. They are shocked as they would not have even imagined it.

My face has changed. It didnt need to change much as I had female attributes already but it has filled and did shrink and did some magic where I do look diffrent on an esphetic level. To say that once I did not like the way I looked in photos is an understatement. So I never had many pre HRT. Now I take a selfie every other day as I love it and I love myself in the healthiest possible way.

Plus in general I have a big smile on my face which is one of the bonuses from  being truly happy. Which I do feel was given to me by the hormones. Also my whole outlook on life has changed. Im still the person I was but with the benefit of being what my head told me i was 40 years ago. Body and mind are one and not having a pitch battle all the time.

So to my summerise. Yes Its painful. especially when your body had resided itself that it was only going to have one puberty. I do get fed up with the aches and pains but i know one day. It will all settle down and reside itself to what it has.

But the benefits do outweigh the cons in my book.

Get yourself some regular exercise. Focus on cardio. and go easy on the cheese.

 

You mentioned a birth defect. Why are you focusing on it?

In most of your post you reiterated how great everything is. Why not focus on all those wonderful things you claim to have instead of the negatives. Lifes far to short. Always be an optimist. The glass is half full. Never have Empty.

[Raven1981]

2 hours ago, Maid In Bedlam said:

Get yourself some regular exercise. Focus on cardio. and go easy on the cheese.

 

You mentioned a birth defect. Why are you focusing on it?

In most of your post you reiterated how great everything is. Why not focus on all those wonderful things you claim to have instead of the negatives. Lifes far to short. Always be an optimist. The glass is half full. Never have Empty.

I do get regular exercise.  Thanks to one of my best friends that lives long distance that I have met here.  She has helped me out alot and I do alot of exercise and even have went from having no fruits and vegetables to now having them.  She is one of my best friends and has helped me out alot.  I wish we lived closer to meet up but we dont.

 

I try not to think about my birth defect or seeing it, but it gets hard at times and I just want to get rid of it.  I am loving the changes now and it is right with the 2nd year is when you really take off.  I have been on hormones for 15 months but 6 months I have been on patches which have done nothing to me and I was up at the highest dose on patches and applying 4 of them each time and nothing to my E.  But when I switches to injections, it was alot better and doing wonderful.

 

But I love how I am looking for my second year.  Now only to get my natural hair that is very thick and curly to grow faster but thick curly does not grow fast like thin straight hair.