10-11-2021, 03:40 PM
Day 142
I made a slight adjustment to my program, upped my dose from 4mg to 4,8mg. Going as usual, once every 3,5 days. It seems that the shorter cycle is working wonders on my mental state, but still the last about 24 hours has felt kinda meh. I decided to try slightly higher dose to see if it does what I'm expecting it to.
I noted this already when I was on sublingual Estrofem, when I upped my dose to 6mg/day, that's where the magic happened. Exact same effect happened on 6,8mg/0,16ml dose per five days, for the first three days. My dysphoria nearly completely melted away, mood swings got less frequent and it was much easier to feel feminine and generally happy. I've talked about it many times how hormonal changes of any kind seem to have rather extreme mental effect on me. Knowing that each individual has some times dramatic differences on what their optimal dosage/levels are considering both body changes and mood, I'm willing to try and see where my sweet spot is. This holds true to both herbs and conventional HRT. Big time YMMV on this. There's only few cases I've read on trans females getting extreme mental effects while others get some and few get nearly nothing. I'm on the extreme mood swing end of the spectrum and my mental health is the most important thing. Transitioning is such a pain some times and any less dysphoria and distress is a goal to strive for.
I may be in luck as my mother has become very supportive lately, she's now even using my chosen name finally which is super sweet of her. She said she's sorry to not be able to financially help my transition much but she promised to pay my labs on a private doctor, now I just need to find out the cost. Its so awesome as I can barely afford my meds but otherwise live hand to mouth all the time. Bless my mom. <3
Another change coming soon is phasing out cypro, I'm still on 12,5mg every other day, but starting now I will lower it to once every three days and by the end of the month quit entirely. I'm 99,99% certain my T levels are nuked to oblivion and likely I wont need an AA for now. I hope monotherapy works well on me. I will still keep popping reishi though as I have plenty of it left, at least DHT is totally out of the equation for sure. Nothing else is changed, calcium & magenesium as usual, D3 + MSM combo nightly and caynne & ginseng & lemon tincture twice a day.
Boobs have kept growing as usual and I got new record volume and bust some day back. Otherwise nothing's much changed for now. Oh heck I'm very soon five months in on HRT. Time flies.
I made a slight adjustment to my program, upped my dose from 4mg to 4,8mg. Going as usual, once every 3,5 days. It seems that the shorter cycle is working wonders on my mental state, but still the last about 24 hours has felt kinda meh. I decided to try slightly higher dose to see if it does what I'm expecting it to.
I noted this already when I was on sublingual Estrofem, when I upped my dose to 6mg/day, that's where the magic happened. Exact same effect happened on 6,8mg/0,16ml dose per five days, for the first three days. My dysphoria nearly completely melted away, mood swings got less frequent and it was much easier to feel feminine and generally happy. I've talked about it many times how hormonal changes of any kind seem to have rather extreme mental effect on me. Knowing that each individual has some times dramatic differences on what their optimal dosage/levels are considering both body changes and mood, I'm willing to try and see where my sweet spot is. This holds true to both herbs and conventional HRT. Big time YMMV on this. There's only few cases I've read on trans females getting extreme mental effects while others get some and few get nearly nothing. I'm on the extreme mood swing end of the spectrum and my mental health is the most important thing. Transitioning is such a pain some times and any less dysphoria and distress is a goal to strive for.
I may be in luck as my mother has become very supportive lately, she's now even using my chosen name finally which is super sweet of her. She said she's sorry to not be able to financially help my transition much but she promised to pay my labs on a private doctor, now I just need to find out the cost. Its so awesome as I can barely afford my meds but otherwise live hand to mouth all the time. Bless my mom. <3
Another change coming soon is phasing out cypro, I'm still on 12,5mg every other day, but starting now I will lower it to once every three days and by the end of the month quit entirely. I'm 99,99% certain my T levels are nuked to oblivion and likely I wont need an AA for now. I hope monotherapy works well on me. I will still keep popping reishi though as I have plenty of it left, at least DHT is totally out of the equation for sure. Nothing else is changed, calcium & magenesium as usual, D3 + MSM combo nightly and caynne & ginseng & lemon tincture twice a day.
Boobs have kept growing as usual and I got new record volume and bust some day back. Otherwise nothing's much changed for now. Oh heck I'm very soon five months in on HRT. Time flies.