I'm with you but my insurance refuses. I was going to try spironolactone again but only 100 mg this time and I still felt crappy. I should know enough by now that there's a reason I packed it all away but I also enjoy tinkering. Janey's close to a hypocrite. I like the phony control that it makes me feel like I have over results. You start way low on estradiol. I was on Premarin 64 mg when I started for over a year and then we doubled it over time and it worked great as we kept moving upwards in small intervals. Then I switched to all natural as my maintenance E2 parenterally and ad hoc on the genitals. I think if one goes slow enough, that's the perfect program. People can try all of the AA's if they want but that doesn't mean that they have to be on them for life so factor that in for bicalutamide. They are hesitant because you might used it for life and get liver disease but most of us just want to push AA's when we still are developing and then ditch them later like I did.
Yeah I was addicted to doctor powers reddit years ago. No one truly helps there.
Can't you do a private lab test?
Probably but I am using so much estrogen that I am sure total is down to zero. If total is zero, how could you have DHT?
Backdoor pathway. Your adrenal glands can still produce dht by less potent androgen byproducts like androstenedione or even progesterone. It is never bad to test it to check if everything is good
I got my dutasteride for that. I just switched up from finasteride a couple of months back. See total hypocrite is Janey. And isn't that more of a theoretical concern, the backdoor pathway.
I mea hair wise it has helped me, but I think I havent feminized much, just some skin softening. My eyes were way more femenine last year but now they are between my T eyes and E2 eyes. It is like I respond less to hormones now than I did a year and a half ago for some reason
The thing is Avodart formulation sadly sucks so many ppl dont get enough dutasteride on their serum. That is why a blood test is still good. Some people need more dutasteride but not because it is not working on them but because the formulation of it is so bad and old that the bioavailability can go from 40% to 95% lol. Such a bad design if you ask me, you cant simply release a drug that in a person can work at a 40% of potency and for another person can work perfectly. I believe that is why some people get better response than other to 0.5 mg dutasteride and why most ppl get better results with 2.5 mg because even if you absorb 40% you are still taking a high amount
I was taking finasteride and duta before but I think it's fine. If my hair stops growing in then I might consider it.
Ye I am just saying it is important, especially for ppl that still keeps losing hair on hrt(like me before 1 mg). Now that I cant buy 1 mg I rely entirely on my solution.
<shrugs> I know. Some people barely get any results or can't see any difference and I can pass as a female naked. That's they extent of my results. I'm no She-male. I will put it that way. All my life I wanted that thing gone but I refused to do surgery eh and it happened anyway, just like the C cups. So people should have some hope if they want this but not so much that they become disappointed.
I mean I am getting my goal which is hair restoration. If I dont get feminization it is ok. I just want to gain some weight to look decent and not like sh*t. If I get all that I will be satisfied.
Are you sure about that?I heard that face can change up to 2 yrs and then remain the same.Have you ever compared a photo of your face today and one from a year and half ago?
Yes I compare my face constantly. I definitely look more masculine than a year and a half ago. I am 3 years on hrt and to my surprise, the more time I'm on HRT the less femenine I get. I wont say masculine but less femenine.
I don't think it can happen but I will prob stay in the in between like I am right now
ok back to hair restoration,i thought hair restoration was correlated to feminization(more feminization more hair(?)
yeah when you said that i was initially scared cause i thought,less feminine means more masculinity, and more masculinity more hair loss thats all
Well it is for many ppl but for me personally it isnt. When I had peak feminization my hair used to suck. Well there was a time where I looked heavily feminized and got a good hair but that lasted like few months.
Everything is important. You need high e2 and nuked T and DhT
so you still feminine