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So the next week I started with 500mg of PM at night, taking only the reishi in the morning. No problem, no pain.

May I ask what is your brand of Reishi?

I believe it is possible to have reactions to fillers or caps so even if they are taken apart it's going to get tricky when you reach higher dosage as you want to take as many small doses of PM as possible. I was taking 500mg every 4 hours so it would be hard to take Reishi outside of that. That's something to keep in mind if you want to take the Fem Body path.

For that reason I asked you about the effectiveness of Estriol USP cream, because Biovea's is also cheaper than PM cream. Also, I think if I'm taking the PM pills, it doesn't make much sense for me to put the PM cream on, right?
On the other hand, I have been reading that the creams with the name "USP" are the closest to the synthetic ones, so perhaps the Estriol USP cream is more effective than the PM cream in terms of feminizing the body.

You might be correct to consider the Estriol cream. Maybe in your case you could use it just like I do as being the safest cream and consider the PM cream a plus until you figure out for the bad reactions issue. It can still be temporary so I would keep experiencing with matching both. Maybe even try a different brand of PM/Reishi and see what happens... As I understand you really want to feminize so you have to take enough Phytoestrogen so they become dominant in your body. That's where your PM Cream comes at play for now as Estriol Cream won't do that.

At some point, you'll go through a "switch", I don't know if there is a specific term for that. I'm 34, 173cm, fast metabolizm, low BMI and 145 pounds. The switch happened at 2000 - 2500mg per day after 3 weeks on this dose following a slow increase from 500mg per day over 4 months. My Doctor believes Finasteride had nothing to do with the low Testosterone that resulted from that "switch". On the contrary, Finasteride makes higher Testosterone possible. So it's probably the effect of the synergy within the whole program and my diet/habits.

I would have loved to keep on that path but as we are dealing with "banished" science, not being able to measure my Phytoestrogen levels on the spot in my State is disheartening. So I'm back to 500mg PM before bed along Estradiol until my next blood test. As I'm going to progress on my path towards becoming a Naturopath, I'll probably end up walking in private labs from my area in the future to discuss the possibilities of having a test available for anybody wanting to measure their phytoestrogen being more present in our diet. It's also a possible factor in breast cancer for women and ED/Gyne issues for men... Streamlining natural feminization for AMAB people using that test would be nice too.

Don't hesitate if you have further questions related to this because it's definitely on topic with this thread. Again, as far as breast growth and curves are concerned, I don't think I have anything to show off from my own physical changes. Though, I love my baby skin.  I consider myself very early in my transition and having my levels on target tells me it's going to happen sooner rather than later and I would love to help people on the same path to reach those levels.

Have a nice one Tania.