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1 hour ago, Jandi said:

When I bring this up with my endo, he points to a stack of papers and says it's not in the guidelines.  I was on it with no E in the past at another clinic.  I still have some of the old pills and I keep wondering…

 

According to my Endo, progesterone is kind of a crapshoot. It helps some girls, it doesn't help others and the effects are not well documented. I can't say for sure if it's helping me one way or another, but I feel more like myself with a system full of progesterone so I'm sticking with it.

 

Hugs!

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2 hours ago, Jackie C. said:

I feel more like myself with a system full of progesterone so I'm sticking with it

Jackie,

    Does progesterone make you sleep like a vampire under a castle at noon-day?   I get 8hrs of sleep in about 5 hrs and a tree would have to fall on the house to wake me up.    Estrogen puts me in girl puberty, but adding  Progesterone seems to add a big, soft, wonderful, ---lazy---aura around me.   I'm always a bit behind on my chores, but I don't seem to be concerned about it much.

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1 hour ago, Willow Farmer said:

Jackie,

    Does progesterone make you sleep like a vampire under a castle at noon-day?   I get 8hrs of sleep in about 5 hrs and a tree would have to fall on the house to wake me up.    Estrogen puts me in girl puberty, but adding  Progesterone seems to add a big, soft, wonderful, ---lazy---aura around me.   I'm always a bit behind on my chores, but I don't seem to be concerned about it much.

 

Yes. Always take your progesterone at night. I've got MAYBE an hour after I take it before I'm OUT. Absolutely makes me more languid too. I can get stuff done, but the urgency is generally gone. Well, mostly gone, I've got an overactive punctuality gland. Definitely easier to fall asleep though. If I'm not doing something, my brain goes, "Great! Sleep now?"

 

Of course I slept like a corpse before too.

 

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2 hours ago, Jandi said:

When I bring this up with my endo, he points to a stack of papers and says it's not in the guidelines

Jandi I have been told by my doctor that trans-medication is a new field and that in the last 10 years many things have changed and are changing all the time as new information is compiled.   Also trans-women are far more complex and unique with massive differences between them.   You can't blanket-treat them as a group and HRT needs to be in their personal Goldie-locks zone.   I've changed doctors a couple times to find someone who is up to date, but safe.

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On 7/14/2021 at 8:07 PM, Bri2020 said:

After a year of HRT I don't fill an "a" cup. lol.  So- BA for me in 60 day!.  The image of me that I always dreamed of had ample but not obscene breasts , so by HRT or BA I will have those by goddess!  I just saw a pic a friend posted of herself and I realized her body shape is exactly how I see myself when i close my eyes. This is the body I'm trying to achieve through HRT, exercise, diet and surgery.  I think I've achieved as much as I can without the help of a BA. 

 

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She looks great those are perfect boobs. She has a great body too. Thats exactly how I wish I looked body wise.

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I don't know how healthy it is to keep going back to Snapchat filters, but I want to look like that so bad. 

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Only had 30 minutes with my makeup tonight. Sad, but there's always the weekend. 

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9 hours ago, Alice_Sybilina said:

I don't know how healthy it is to keep going back to Snapchat filters, but I want to look like that so bad. 

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Not healthy, I stopped because I will never attain what filters will do.  BUT, your eyes aren't far off. But since the face/lips aren't done as much, it looks imbalanced.

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To be honest, I don't understand makeup.  I have some I was gifted, but no idea what to do with it.  One of my daughters put some on me once, but I thought it looked like shyte - looked like a corpse.

But then I am kinda old anyway.

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Filters have their place and they are a fun way to study how make up works.

I still have good and bad make up days.

Can be frustrating to have to start all over again several times because you messed up.

Its a learning curve indeed.

 

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@Teri Annelike when your eye shadow is done and oops, thank you mascara, let's do this all over again.

 

Yeah the filters I know aren't accurate, but it's like being able to preview what I could look like in the future and it not actually looking like someone else's face. 

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I agree

I spent tons of hours on YT trying to learn all I could about make up and probably spent 1,000 on make up just learning.

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My go to is how my wife showed me she does her eyes. I still haven't even got close to mastering contouring, lol. 

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I'm still experimenting with contouring  all these years being full time.

Will I ever understand it all ? Nope not a chance.

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8 hours ago, Alice_Sybilina said:

@Teri Annelike when your eye shadow is done and oops, thank you mascara, let's do this all over again.

 

Yeah the filters I know aren't accurate, but it's like being able to preview what I could look like in the future and it not actually looking like someone else's face. 

Mary Kay as an app where you can pick out the various products and do a makeover using your pic. No filters per se, just "adds" the products in a way that it's supposed to be done. Pretty cool

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Went shoe shopping with my sis for the first time in a year( and as Bri). we didn't find any shoes but I did find this Eddie Bauer tank dress with built in shelf bra at a thrift store!

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12 hours ago, Bri2020 said:

we didn't find any shoes but I did find this Eddie Bauer tank dress with built in shelf bra at a thrift store!

 

I HATE shoe shopping in stores. It always makes me feel dysphoric. None of the shops around here (and a lot online too) stock size sasquatch.

 

As for that dress... That's going to look awesome after your BA. Good find!

 

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1 hour ago, Jackie C. said:

None of the shops around here (and a lot online too) stock size sasquatch.

I hear ya

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12 hours ago, Bri2020 said:

Went shoe shopping with my sis for the first time in a year( and as Bri). we didn't find any shoes but I did find this Eddie Bauer tank dress with built in shelf bra at a thrift store!

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That’s a nice dress. I have one of similar length that I love.

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Thankfully I seem to be shrinking already. I was 6'2" with a size 13 in men's shoes in high school. I remeasured when my oldest got taller than me and now I'm like 6' even and can comfortably fit in a size 10 shoe. 

 

That dress looks awesome. 

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