Jump to content
  • Welcome to the TransPulse Forums!

    We offer a safe, inclusive community for transgender and gender non-conforming folks, as well as their loved ones, to find support and information.  Join today!

Started HRT Last Night


MirandaB

Recommended Posts

Got blood work on Monday, GP who looked at it on Wednesday wondered if I had started HRT already or had tried it in the past, based on low testosterone and high estrogen levels (for AMAB).  ?

 

58 years old. My endocrinologist said "Let's get this party started!" and now I guess i'm just waiting for the festivities to gradually begin. 

Link to comment
  • Replies 154
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • MirandaB

    40

  • Elizabeth Star

    21

  • Ivy

    13

  • HollyElizabeth

    11

Top Posters In This Topic

Posted Images

  • Forum Moderator

@RhondaS

Congratulations on starting HRT. If I was your doctor, I would’ve asked you the same question your GP did but for different reasons. You don’t look anything close to 58 and you certainly look like you’ve been on HRT for awhile based on your avatar photo. This is going to be an amazing experience for you!  I am so happy for you.?

 

My Best,

Susan R?

Link to comment

Congratulations Rhonda. It does seem like the changes are slow but there are a lot of things happening all at once a lot of amazing things.

Link to comment

Oh, the avatar is a FaceApp cheat. I have real pics that are just makeup but they're a little over the top, makeovers in London, from back last year when I still thought crossdressing was the cure for what ailed me. 

 

 

48977307441_6197892b18_w.jpg

Link to comment

 

2 hours ago, ElizabethStar said:

You still look good hon.

 

Aw, you're sweet.  And you look good too!

 

I think the fake pics look more like how I feel than the 'real' makeover ones.

 

We'll see how many months it'll take to post a less app'd up pic. I'm still in Before mode. 

Link to comment
  • Admin

Congrats, Rhonda!  You're on the Womanhood Express now, girl, so get ready for some twists and turns along the track.

 

HUGS

 

Carolyn Marie

Link to comment
  • 3 weeks later...

Today is week 3 day! 

 

I guess it's like having a baby...first you count the days, then you go by weeks, then months, eventually years with fractions, then just years, huh?

 

The party may have started but so far it's not really much of a party. 

Link to comment

Congratz @RhondaS Sweetie. I'm excited for you. You know I'm close behind you. Monday was my week 2. You look so beautiful in that pic with the blond hair. I got to be honest, when I was living as a guy, I would have asked you out. You are a real hottie. Of coarse now I'm more into Ryan Reynolds and Channing Tatum now. I know, guys, who knew. I had the long talk with my therapist and now realize I've always liked guys, I just wasn't admitting it. So now I'm wanted to be taken by a big strong hot AF man. Might as well be the woman I am in my dreams an be with the sex I dream of. I'm out and I'm proud! lol. Anyway, believe me, you would have been the girl I would of hit on when I was the male me. 

 

I hope that didn't come out creepy.

Link to comment

I have on several occasions noticed a sensation, maybe pain, in the breasts over these past few weeks but today it was more there than every before. 

 

And just possibly some change in their shape. If I look down I can see slight curves there?

Link to comment

Mine felt like they were itching really bad when they started. Yeah, That wonderful moment when you realize it happening, it's really happening.

Link to comment
On 10/7/2020 at 9:10 PM, ElizabethStar said:

Mine felt like they were itching really bad when they started. Yeah, That wonderful moment when you realize it happening, it's really happening.

 

Wow, that sounds wonderful.

 

Not the itching, of course, but well, you know :)

 

I admit, I'm envious! I'm at the very beginning of all this and have SOO much self doubt and half-surreal/half-hyperreal moments of "Whoa, wait a minute...am I actually seriously considering this...?", but there's definitely a part of me that is hoping so much for my own time, my own turn.

 

In any case, congrats, @RhondaS! And to everyone else who's reached this point!

 

 

 

 

Link to comment
21 hours ago, Heather Nicole said:

I'm at the very beginning of all this and have SOO much self doubt and half-surreal/half-hyperreal moments of "Whoa, wait a minute...am I actually seriously considering this...?",

Yes, yes you are doing this.

My opinion>In a couple months you'll look back (if you haven't already) and ask yourself why you waited so long. the feelings of self doubt will settle and go away. The surreality may take a little longer but it's not any one event causing it to last so long.

Link to comment
1 hour ago, ElizabethStar said:

Yes, yes you are doing this.

My opinion>In a couple months you'll look back (if you haven't already) and ask yourself why you waited so long. the feelings of self doubt will settle and go away. The surreality may take a little longer but it's not any one event causing it to last so long.

I had so much self doubt and excessive worrying before I started HRT. When I'm frustrated with how long it is taking to get FFS I find it hard to believe I was willing to wait so long. What was I thinking!?

Link to comment

I wept a lot before. Weep even more now. When I weep about starting HRT it's a mix of how happy I feel already and how happy I hope to be later combined with sadness about waiting so dang long. 

Link to comment
On 10/7/2020 at 6:26 PM, RhondaS said:

And just possibly some change in their shape. If I look down I can see slight curves there?

I kept telling myself it was probably my imagination. (I'm a bit of a pessimist)  Then one day I accidentally brushed against something.  Yikes!

 

Link to comment
2 hours ago, Jandi said:

Then one day I accidentally brushed against something.  Yikes!

I remember that happening to me. I was trying to squeeze through a half closed door then I caught someones elbow. Lined bras have been my best friend since.

Link to comment

The chest discomfort that had a good maybe 24 hour stretch on Wednesday seems mostly gone. 

 

It's funny how recent physical pains (chest, laser hair removal) have made me happier!

Link to comment
On 10/8/2020 at 7:35 PM, Heather Nicole said:

 

I admit, I'm envious! I'm at the very beginning of all this and have SOO much self doubt and half-surreal/half-hyperreal moments of "Whoa, wait a minute...am I actually seriously considering this...?", but there's definitely a part of me that is hoping so much for my own time, my own turn.

Wow, you summed up my feelings so perfectly...say no more.

?

Link to comment
16 hours ago, ElizabethStar said:

Yes, yes you are doing this.

 

When I read this it made me feel a little floaty and very good. I guess that tells me something! Thanks :)

 

7 hours ago, RhondaS said:

It's funny how recent physical pains (chest, laser hair removal) have made me happier!

 

There was a "Comedians in Cars" where Seinfeld had an interesting take on pain: "Pain is information entering the body." Weird, but he had an interesting, pretty convincing explanation. I guess in your case it's femininity entering the body!

 

I had something vaguely similar. Back in puberty, I had heard that for girls, sore nipples were a common part of puberty. Never heard that about boys. But mine did end up noticeably sore for a while. I was secretly kind of happy about that :)

Link to comment

Inspired by @HollyNoel's update here's mine after a month of HRT (I would edit the title of the thread if that was possible to be more accurate but whatever)

 

Still getting intermittent mild discomfort in the breasts and it still makes me happy.

 

I feel like my resting dysphoria has become resting (mild) euphoria. I can still get a wave of dysphoria but the constant one has seemingly vanished. YAY!

 

I can still get an erection, but they need to be actually generated, not the random ones that used to happen. So that seems a little stereotypically feminine, if that's possible in this context, I need to be in the mood or wooed. Most of the time everything down there looks like the worst past incidents of cold water shrinkage, if I may reference Seinfeld

 

Still seeing a bit of curved shape in the breasts, so wearing all my tightest old shirts in case I never can get away with wearing them again without showing off any future developments. 

 

Don't know how much is hormones and how much is my new hair care regimen but I am so enjoying longer hair. The hair did its own version of 'coming out' at a wedding a few weeks ago (an event that doesn't seem to have included any virus spreaders as far as I've heard, knock on wood). 

 

At last laser (face) session the folks there were wondering if I needed to come back for a 4th session, they might have gotten all the good targets that weren't gray. It's up to me, I probably will just to get whatever stragglers pop up in a few more weeks. 

 

Another 8 days till I see the endocrinologist again. The wait for the first visit seemed so unbearably long. This one seems long too. I've never before had doctor's appointments I have wanted to go to so much, or at all, it's kind of crazy.  

 

 

 

 

Link to comment

@RhondaS OMG! I'm excit3d for your changes, I'm happy to hear they are what you want to happen. For me any change good or bad is welcome, I just want to be rid of the male self as soon as I can. For both of us we've been female all our lives but only been openly female for such a short time. I don't know about you but I wish I had done this when I was around 12 and not so late in life. Now things are harder  to change, both the people I know and my body. Anyway I'm extremely happy for you and I really hope the good changes keep coming for you. Love you Sis. Holly.

Link to comment

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Who's Online   1 Member, 0 Anonymous, 214 Guests (See full list)

    • Carolyn Marie
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

  • Forum Statistics

    • Total Topics
      80.6k
    • Total Posts
      768k
  • Member Statistics

    • Total Members
      12,014
    • Most Online
      8,356

    Quillian
    Newest Member
    Quillian
    Joined
  • Today's Birthdays

    1. Bowie Ellis
      Bowie Ellis
      (19 years old)
    2. Damien Mcknight
      Damien Mcknight
      (18 years old)
    3. JJ
      JJ
      (77 years old)
    4. KathyLauren
      KathyLauren
      (70 years old)
    5. memyselfandwe
      memyselfandwe
      (44 years old)
  • Posts

    • Carolyn Marie
      https://apnews.com/article/title-ix-sexual-assault-transgender-sports-d0fc0ab7515de02b8e4403d0481dc1e7   The revised regulations don't touch on trans athletes; which I totally understand, as that's become a third rail issue and this is an election year.  But the other changes seem pretty sensible, and will obviously result in immediate right wing lawsuits.   Carolyn Marie
    • missyjo
      darling you have wonderful taste..I especially love the red dress n sneaker outfit   enjoy   missy
    • Carolyn Marie
      Very well said, @Abigail Genevieve, and very true.  Thank you.   Carolyn Marie
    • Susan R
      Trans Group Zoom Meeting Tomorrow!!   Trans Group Zoom Meeting Times: April 20, 2024 6:00 PM Pacific Time April 20, 2024 8:00 PM Central Time April 21, 2024 11:00 AM Australia/Melbourne   Message me for the meeting link if you’d like to attend.   *Hugs* Susan R🌷
    • Susan R
      They may win a few battles but not the war! as @Davie pointed out there is little truth if it full of lies, inconsistencies, and ignores evidence to the contrary. I saw this article earlier and have to agree here. Truth will win. This isn’t the first time this tactic has been tried. Always stick with the truth!
    • Susan R
      Welcome @violet r! Glad you joined our forum and got through the hardest part…that first post. As many have mentioned, we are more than accepting here as we affirm your gender identity and hold no judgement, whatsoever. There’s so much here on this forum, I think you’ll find very helpful. If you have trouble finding an answer just reach out, try the search but starting a new thread is usually best to get some quick answers. Many are here for various transgender related issues but many, if not all, are here to help one another if we can. It’s great to have you onboard.   Warmest Regards, Susan R🌷
    • Willow
      good evening   good day at work today.  I did do some things a little out of normal but everything was completed successfully.  As I said earlier, the Asst Mgr was my second today.  I don’t think she was too happy about that.  Several customers asked her where Richard was her answer was the manager cut his hours.  Well that is only part of the story,  his hours were cut just like mine were and several others but in his case he made demands about his hours that couldn’t be met.  But instead of making some non complaining remark about it she made sure to lay it all on the manager, thus throwing the manager under the bus.  Similarly when asked why she hadn’t been at work early mornings, she said she was being punished by the manager.  Well that’s partly true, she wouldn’t do what the manager told her to do so she took her off opening.  But secondarily she didn’t have a car to drive temporarily.  You can’t open the store without a car because who ever opens has tasks that require them to leave the store, so it was  at least partly her own fault.  But she chose to throw the manager under the bus for that.  I think she is asking to be fired for insubordination.  And if the manager gets these conversations off the security tape tomorrow she just might get her wish.   im pretty close to being ready to take the asst position but there isn’t anyone ready to take over my job, at least not at our store.  I suppose the other shift lead could if she is able to work earlier shifts and if the other closers were just a bit more reliable.   Ive been wanting some homefried chicken.  We found a BBQ place not far away that had such a chicken but I is made fresh when ordered so it has a 30 minute wait.  It was worth the wait and the other things we tried were also good.  Another restaurant on the list.  At least half of what we ordered came home for another meal.   i get to sleep in tomorrow, I go to work at 1:30!   Willow
    • Abigail Genevieve
      It was nine thirty.  Saturday morning had rolled around more quickly than Taylor could believe.  She groaned, whined, thought of a million excuses why she should just stay in bed and knock the alarm across the room.  But it would still be going on, and so would the promise to Bob: when the gi came in, she would be in. There it was in its nice package, out where she could not miss it.  Why didn't she hide it?  She shook her head.   Up she got.  Sometimes you just do.  Her hair was a wreck. She patted it down and went to the bathroom.  Nine forty five. Shower later. No make up. She hated kara-tay especially at an ungodly early hour on a Saturday morning. Bagel. Instant coffee.  She was five minutes away when she realized she had forgotten the gi.  Back she went.   Into the dojo.  She had about five minutes to get the gi on.  She attempted to slip in unnoticed and go to the little restroom. Someone barked something out in Japanese or something, and there was a dead silence.  She turned to see what was going on. Both classes were getting into their lines, but everyone, including Bob, was bowing slightly. To her. Bob nodded, and she returned the bow.  Life started again. She was touched.   Bowing three times. Oath. Kata.  She was facing off with Judy as her partner.  Judy looked worried.   "Sometimes you just gotta pick yourself up and try again," Taylor told her. She nodded. "Let's do this."   Lunge punch and lower block.  They traded off like nothing had happened the last weekend.  Lunge punch and middle block. Lunge punch and upper block.  It was kind of like dancing. Taylor enjoyed it.  She wanted to learn more.  Brown-belt Maggie adjusted position of limbs and hips for both Taylor and Judy, telling them when she was about to do something: elbow up a bit".    "How'd you do?" Bob asked her later.  They had both gone home and showered. Now they were in a booth at a fast food place.   "I was kind of disappointed class ended. I was ready for more."   "That's my trooper."   "I'm not allowing you in my apartment until we are married," she said suddenly.   "You think I am a problem?"   "No.  I think you are safe. You passed the test  I am the problem here."   "Okay."   "What did the doctor tell you?"   "It's complicated.  More tests coming.  Like getting into college.  I got a letter back.  It seems there is this big fat M on my transcript and my current picture is not an M type picture.  I have to write a letter and send them notarized proofs and stuff. Just delays. This is a pain. Nothing cut and dried."   "I will say.  I'm glad I'm not transgender."   "Hah. You are pulled into my world.  You are involved in this stuff as much as I am, and, as you put it, of your own free will."   "You are worth it."   "I hope so."   "I know so."      
    • Abigail Genevieve
      On the way back to her desk she was interrupted by six short, urgent conversations that had to be attended to. Then she slipped into the women's room and locked the stall door.  She took a deep breath, then another, and allowed herself to shake for five minutes,  Then deep breathing, ten in and ten out, stretch up, touch the floor, neck rolls and she was fine. She used the toilet and a woman knocked and said, "Taylor, are you okay?"   "Ready to conquer the world!"  on her way out she found her makeup was fine.  Three stalls, two sinks.  If she ever designed a women's room with three stalls, there would be four sinks, with plenty of space to plunk your stuff down between them.   She met a deferential Karen.  "Here is the branding I came up with," she said.  And she went back to working as hard as Brenda and Mary, who looked up worriedly and then went back to the proposal.   Shortly before 5:00 she received an email with the title Consolidation and Compensation.  In it she learned that the position of office manager was eliminated, and the current office manager was to become the chief executive officer. The former CEO, along with the CFO, the chief legal officer, and sundry staff, had been terminated, per the Board of Directors.  Effective immediately everyone would receive a base salary of $20,000 with a commission to be set by the individual's supervisor.  Each supervisor would be given a certain percentage to distribute.  Most functions they had been handled would be outsourced as needed.   "The question of what profit was made last year is frequent enough to be answered.  The company lost over 500,000 in fiscal 2023.  At this point further cuts are not anticipated.  We will be strategically adding positions that will enhance our profits. Hard work is expected of everyone."   Her two web guys had been complaining because their games had been remotely uninstalled.  After the memo came out they were absolutely silent.  That gave her an idea, and after an exchange of emails they were reassigned to maintenance out at the plant, effective tomorrow morning.  There were lots of weeds that needed pulling, if nothing else. That email went out after they left early, for the day.  The maintenance foreman was a no-nonsense type who did not tolerate slacking, and they would learn a thing or two.  This also freed up two spaces for her to put new people.
    • MaeBe
      So…I didn’t know your Facebook avatar was public. So, on my birthday, a couple people used a group avatar message to wish me a happy birthday…and now my Facebook friends can see a short video of my female avatar dancing with an old friend’s and another with my uncle’s avatars. So am I “Facebook out” now? 😬
    • Davie
      No, they are not. Truth wins in the end and this report is full of lies that poison the whole thing: see this: "Dr. Cass Backpedals From Review: HRT, Blockers Should Be Made Available it's said. Dr. Cass's latest statements are likely to cast more doubt on the validity of the study, which has come under fire for disregarding substantial evidence on trans care." https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dr-cass-backpedals-from-review-hrt?publication_id=994764&post_id=143743897&isFreemail=true&r=rebf4&triedRedirect=true I hope Dr. Cass wins The Mengele Award for it.
    • Adrianna Danielle
      Boyfriend and I went to a support group for spouses dating or married to a transgender person on Tuesday night for the first time.It was amazing meeting other couples like us.One was a genetic woman whom has been dating a transgender male for the first time and she is supporting his transition.Us,they were amazed by us agreeing on something we said,love and acceptance have brought us together
    • Abigail Genevieve
      By which I mean there is a cultural stereotype of what a man is, and one of what a woman is.  Even worse, of what a transgender person is.   You be you.   I read of a boy who thought he was a girl because he did not adhere to some (rather toxic) conceptions of what it means to be a man, so he decided he was a girl.  He was told he didn't have to conform to stereotype and got happy. "You mean I don't have to transition?" He didn't want to, and was relieved.   Once upon a time if you were transgender they told you either you transition or die.   Incorporate the best of what it means to be a man and the best of what it means to be a woman as much as you possibly can, and let the rest go.  Be fully human. Be alive. Don't conform to some cultural crud.
    • Abigail Genevieve
      On the way back to her desk she was interrupted by six short, urgent conversations that had to be attended to. Then she slipped into the women's room and locked the stall door.  She took a deep breath, then another, and allowed herself to shake for five minutes,  Then deep breathing, ten in and ten out, stretch up, touch the floor, neck rolls and she was fine. She used the toilet and a woman knocked and said, "Taylor, are you okay?"   "Ready to conquer the world!"  on her way out she found her makeup was fine.  Three stalls, two sinks.  If she ever designed a women's room with three stalls, there would be four sinks, with plenty of space to plunk your stuff down between them.   She met a deferential Karen.  "Here is the branding I came up with," she said.  And she went back to working as hard as Brenda and Mary, who looked up worriedly and then went back to the proposal.   Shortly before 5:00 she received an email with the title Consolidation and Compensation.  In it she learned that the position of office manager was eliminated, and the current office manager was to become the chief executive officer. The former CEO, along with the CFO, the chief legal officer, and sundry staff, had been terminated, per the Board of Directors.  Effective immediately everyone would receive a base salary of $20,000 with a commission to be set by the individual's supervisor.  Each supervisor would be given a certain percentage to distribute.  Most functions they had been handled would be outsourced as needed.   "The question of what profit was made last year is frequent enough to be answered.  The company lost over 500,000 in fiscal 2023.  At this point further cuts are not anticipated.  We will be strategically adding positions that will enhance our profits. Hard work is expected of everyone."   Her two web guys had been complaining because their games had been remotely uninstalled.  After the memo came out they were absolutely silent.  That gave her an idea, and after an exchange of emails they were reassigned to maintenance out at the plant, effective tomorrow morning.  There were lots of weeds that needed pulling, if nothing else. That email went out after they left early, for the day.  The maintenance foreman was a no-nonsense type who did not tolerate slacking, and they would learn a thing or two.  This also freed up two spaces for her to put new people.
    • Davie
      Except for this thung thwister: Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three-thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. Now if, Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of of unsifted thistles, thrust three-thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, how many thistles can'st thou thrust through the thick of thy thumb . . . in sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles? Success to the successful thistle sifter!
  • Upcoming Events

Contact TransPulse

TransPulse can be contacted in the following ways:

Email: Click Here.

To report an error on this page.

Legal

Your use of this site is subject to the following rules and policies, whether you have read them or not.

Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
DMCA Policy
Community Rules

Hosting

Upstream hosting for TransPulse provided by QnEZ.

Sponsorship

Special consideration for TransPulse is kindly provided by The Breast Form Store.
×
×
  • Create New...