Not enough hormones!

[Kasumi63]

I'm in Thailand (after FFS and BA) and heading back home to Japan tomorrow. I was expecting to go straight home to Okinawa, but because of new COVID restrictions, it looks like I'll have a two-week quarantine. I just noticed I don't have enough hormones! I have nine doses (of estradiol gel) left but have to stay until September 15. Ugh.

 

Anyone deal with this before?  I'm wondering which is better: 1.) Just stay on my regular schedule until I run out; or 2.) Try to pace myself by skipping a couple days now, and again after four or five days.  

 

I thought I had planned pretty well, but this is my second quarantine this month. I guess it could have been worse. Suggestions?  

 

(I don't know if I can get any more while in quarantine, but that doesn't look very likely.)

[Petra Jane]

Do you not have someone who can get your meds and drop them off at your doorstep? Here in the UK we have many groups, mostly local charities, who organise such drop offs, I’ve even got some neighbours who have offered to get and deliver, at social distance, food or meds. Luckily, other than a couple of times this last 18 months, I’ve been able to get supermarket deliveries and to go collect my own meds.

[Kasumi63]

4 hours ago, Petra Jane said:

Do you not have someone who can get your meds and drop them off at your doorstep?

Yes, this would be the ideal, and I'll see if it's possible when I arrive in Japan. Unfortunately, I'll be in Tokyo, which is very far from where my doctor (who writes my prescription) is in Okinawa. Thanks for the idea, Petra Jane.

[Petra Jane]

1 hour ago, Kasumi63 said:

Yes, this would be the ideal, and I'll see if it's possible when I arrive in Japan. Unfortunately, I'll be in Tokyo, which is very far from where my doctor (who writes my prescription) is in Okinawa. Thanks for the idea, Petra Jane.

I realise that things are done differently in different countries but here I can request my prescription electronically and can change the pharmacy where the prescription is sent to, might this be a possibility for you?

[VickySGV]

For GCS, most of us have to be off of our E for several weeks before the surgery as it is.   None of us have experienced any losses of development during those times so your options as you now have them would both be doable.  I would suspect there might be an LGBT center in Tokyo you could contact who may even have a doctor who can check with yours and have the meds prescribed locally for doorstep delivery.  Either way, you will at worst have a day or two of mild discomfort, but no real harm done.  Petra Jane's suggestions are also good as well.

[Kasumi63]

On 8/29/2021 at 2:11 PM, Petra Jane said:

Do you not have someone who can get your meds and drop them off at your doorstep?

Yes, that would be the ideal, and I’ll see if I can do that when I return to Japan, but it seems highly unlikely as my doctor (who prescribes) is down in Okinawa, far from Tokyo.

[Kasumi63]

On 8/29/2021 at 10:17 PM, VickySGV said:

Either way, you will at worst have a day or two of mild discomfort, but no real harm done. 

Thanks, Vicky. It's only a week, so I'm sure I'll survive. Maybe it's my imagination, but I feel like I need hormones more now than I did before SRS. 

[VickySGV]

1 hour ago, Kasumi63 said:

Maybe it's my imagination, but I feel like I need hormones more now than I did before SRS. 

It was hell on me for a few days after they found a Blood Clot in my right leg, and took me off the E for six months, but I had been 3 years post GCS when that hit. I have lived and life is still good, wishing you peace and healing.

[Lexi C]

Kasumi.

Vicky is right. I just finish FFS. and I had to be off any H for 5days pre and 2 after noticed no difference . You should be ok. Rest . relax and hydrated 

[Kasumi63]

I guess I was being silly. Just a mere week. No big deal.