Also got my bloods tested:

Estrogen: 415 pmol/L
Testosterone: 0.5 nmol/L

Pre HRT I was at:
Estrogen: 117 pmol/L
Testosterone: 20 nmol/L

That is all :3

yaymoreprog

i refuse to believe that this timing is a coincidence, your post must have caused these lands to be blessed with more prog prescriptions

p(r)og

Is pog still a thing or am I finally cringe?

My friend still says it lol. Its terminology that probs leans older gen z i would imagine

hehewgee yay :3

I love planned parenthood I just asked and they said "ok" and I got it the next day YAYYYY GLAD YOU GOT YOURS TOO

My HRT stuff was 154 pmol/L E and 11 nmol/L T. Four months ago, they haven't tested me since or increased anything. My doctor told me to not expect much and nothing is happening so I guess that's true.

I recommend starting with a low dose of Yes, tritating up to Pink Floyd, then adding Riverside as adjunct therapy.

yeah your almost certainly getting under dosed. as you can see thats basically just a little different from my pre hrt levels.
Sorry thats happening :( it isn't acceptable

WTF? both of those numbers are pretty solidly within expected cis male ranges, you aren't on HRT at all!!!!

EDIT: for reference, my blood work lab reports an expected range of 41.4-159 pmol/L for estrogen and 8.6-29.0 nmol/L for testosterone when i select "male" on the signup form. transfemscience shows similar numbers. your endocrinologist is royally fucking you over and essentially has given you nothing at all, you should switch doctors immediately or start DIY if HRT is important to you

Fairly certain my doctor is just like actually transphobic or has some bizarre idea that trans people are their sex assigned at birth, but just want to be a more masc/fem version of it, because that's what the conversations I can remember gave off. I think he's used to like high estrogen for men implying like an endocrine disorder and thinks it'll be bad for me if I went up too high too fast.

I was lying when I said completely nothing, like my nipples are sore. Maybe I was getting tested as the pills I took in the morning weren't fully in my system. Seems strange that apparently that's within male ranges if I have some symptoms. I didn't get my first bloodwork results, but they said it increased.

Idk if there are other doctors or how to find them, was planning on just waiting it out for however long it takes, because I'm lucky to not have that much dysphoria and I've already gone through puberty so it can't really get worse (at least I think). I missed one appointment and various unfortunate things happened so that I couldn't get another, so it's been nearly a year of this.

Do I really have to fight with doctors?

Also what does prog for some people when they're also on estrogen? Do you have to be on estrogen for a really long time to go on it? I did actually ask about it, but was kind of brushed off.

okay so what you really have to understand is that, for the most part, trans healthcare fucking sucks everywhere. unless you luck out and find one of the very few good endos, for the most part they'll fit in one of two boxes:

1. transphobes who will actively try to get in your way or even harm you
2. completely clueless about trans HRT, and insist on going "by-the-book" (which seems reasonable except that in almost all cases the information in "the book" is decades out-of-date and not supported by current research)

for context: i'm in Switzerland, which generally has a fantastic (if rather expensive) healthcare system. the general consensus among the trans community here is that there are precisely three endocrinologists out of the hundreds in the greater central Switzerland area who are actually good for trans people. everyone i know who isn't at one of those endos and isn't doing DIY is constantly having to fight for the absolute minimum level of care.

in short, if HRT is something you want to pursue you need to educate yourself, as the vast majority of endos will either not know what do to (in which case you have to be able to intervene), or will intentionally try to fuck you over (in which case you need to be able to catch them on their bullshit so that you know to go elsewhere).

and yes, you absolutely have to fight with doctors, if your levels are still at cis male levels after nearly a year nothing is going to change and they'll just keep you trapped here forever.

The times between appointments are so long it's almost comical if you compare it to the actual time the appointments take.

prog is supposed to improve breast development (and often has some significant effects on libido and a few other things) and most people start it something like 6-12 months after starting E. that said, there isn't much in the way of true medical research out there, so it's hard to say with any certainty how effective it is and when the optimal starting time is (a lot of doctors will take the lack of research and use it to claim that prog definitely isn't necessary, which is a lie).

in my experience a lot of girls try it for a few months and may or may not keep taking it depending on whether or not they personally think it made a difference (and whether or not they like the extra levels of horny). but it's very much a "your mileage may vary, try it and see!" sort of thing.

Maybe one day I will try it.

Omg, Mintyyy! Welcome to team horny! 🩷
Glad to have you girlie :3
Hope prog treats you well ♥️

Bullet vibrator has arrived just in time too lmao. Literally today

my 15-year-old sister says it, you are still hip and with the times (⌐■_■)

Omg enjoy! You're gonna have some fun it seems lol 💜