Two years ago on this day I had my intake at Maasstad, the hospital in Rotterdam, which would result in me finally starting to receive an official prescription for HRT, causing me to switch from #DIYHRT to official #HRT ten days later; mostly at least, it took three days longer to get my first #Triptorelin injection actually injected, and I kept taking #CPA for a few days after that to prevent the testosterone flare that GNRH-agonists cause at first.
Back then I was still quite distrustful of the team at Maasstad, something that has genuinely changed by now: At this point I have learned to trust them to an extend that is sadly very uncommon in our community, and I’d be happy to stay with them permanently, even if having to go to Rotterdam for bloodtests all the time is not super convenient. (They insist on doing them themselves, officially because they don’t trust other labs, but I can’t help the suspicion that there might be a financial component as well…)
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So, had a call with #Psytrans today and they’ll put me onto the waiting list with GenderClinic, where the waiting times are shorter than with Radboud, meaning there is a decent chance I’ll actually still get it this year. 😊
The biggest downside is that this will be without facial surgery, unlike with Radboud, so that getting that will neither be easier nor faster, but not having to have another birthday with the “thing” should be worth that. 😊
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Sitting again in Radboud’s waiting room for an appointment regarding surgeries, though this time I still don’t know what exactly this is about. It said something like “control visit” and I’d really prefer a better idea for why I had to come here…
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Two years ago, to the hour, I took my first pill of Estrogen, starting #HRT. Back than as #DIYHRT, today with #OfficialHRT.
It’s been a wild ride, and a mostly enjoyable one at that.
I’m definitely much happier, emotionally more balanced, more social, just in every way (except for physical strength and being cold all the time) a better version of myself. I love it! 😊
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CW: further waiting lists for bottom surgery
So, back on the train to Den Bosch.
A few more details: They were willing to believe my height and weight and accepted that (😊), we were talking procedures and that I want a full vagionplasty and the other further stuff.
Essentially I’m now on three further waiting lists:
1. I have to have a conversation with their own psych (:blobcat_eyeroll:) to make sure that I really know that I want it I guess, which might happen in June or so. Supposedly that is just one appointment that can be a call.
2. Because I also want facial surgery there will be a separate intake later for that, but it shouldn’t affect the timeline afterwards.
3. Once the psych has given the okay, they’ll put me on the actual, actual, definitely for real this time, waiting list for the actual surgery. That is the waiting list that was until recently 14 months, but is seemingly shrinking significantly at this point, currently at a year and they expect it to go down further but can’t tell yet.
In any case, it will at least be more than a year until the actual surgery, so… :blobcat_eyeroll:
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So I missed a call from the university hospital in Nijmegen about half an hour ago that they moved the call that we will have on Thursday (about which I had no fucking idea that it was scheduled) from 09:something to 11:30.
Now the only thing I want from them at this time, and furthermore fitting with the fact that it was the department for plastic surgery, is a combo surgery (SRS + FFS), and I’ve been on their waiting list for the waiting list for quite a while now… So could it, be that I’ll finally make it to the actual waiting list? With enough luck, this might even mean that my birthday next month will be my last birthday with genitals in birth configuration… That would be amazing! If not, it would still mean that I’d be highly likely to get the surgery in 2027; later than I’d like, but still before turning 35. 😊
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Just had a call with my Endo…
I get #Progesterone now! 😊
(Other than that my dose will stay the same.)
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Back from my GP, for another triptorelin injection.
Truly the biggest perk of transitioning in the Netherlands: It’s one injection, every 12 weeks, no real side-effects[1], and because it’s so expensive you basically don’t get it elsewhere.
That said, since it’s a peptite, it requires somewhat unusual preperation and the person who did it today is a doctor, who clearly never dealt with it and skipped reading the instructions…
Not ideal, but in the end, it seems to have made it into my buttock and with surprisingly little pain at that, given the mess that she made when mixing…
[1]: okay the side-effects are: It’s an injection, so things can go (mechanically) wrong with that and low Testosteron also can do things that are undesirable. Aka: No real side effects.
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I just published my HRT history, including both doses and blood tests on my websites.
Take it for what it is, I’m really just putting it out there, as is.
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Oh fuck, I wanted to send this out earlier, but better now than too late: If you are #trans in the #Netherlands and still on long waiting lists to start the medical track:
Tomorrow morning Psytrans will very likely open their signup (they didn’t the last two months, and the trend is that they do every third month) at 09:00:00 (SHARP!!) which will be done in a first-come-first-serve manner.
What is new is that they are now contracted with a bunch of health insurance companies, including Menzis, CZ and a bunch of smaller ones. Even if yours isn’t on the list, if you sign up now, your intake might be in January in the new year, giving you the opportunity to change beforehand.
In my case it took them about a month to give me my first diagnosis, then about 1.5 months to get a single appointment with an external psych for the second opinion, and then a very unreasonable amount of time to get an Endo, but I think I also got unlucky, because they first tried to get a contract with someone in Eindhoven which failed after a while and delayed my referal to Rotterdam. In Rotterdam they did however accept my DIY-HRT since the time for which I had blood-tests as counting for the 1-year-of-HRT requirement for a referral to bottom surgery, and Psytrans as an org was also quite supportive of it and even tried to talk my back-then GP into prescribing me blood tests.
This might very well be your best chance to get treatment fast for possibly another three months! Don’t miss out on it, if this is relevant for you and don’t assume that being a minute late will still be fine, assume that it’s gone right away! (But still check if you notice that you are late, you might still have luck!)
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Psytrans just sent out an email that they are now contracting with Genderclinic.nl for #SRS and that this might be a way for some of us to get surgery quicker… I’ve now sent a response that I’m interested within 13 minutes after they sent theirs, so let’s see where this goes.
The downside would be that it would mean that I would not get FFS+SRS as a combined surgery, but as two seperate ones… Not ideal, but a small price to pay if it means that I get SRS quicker and I am not super certain that I would get approved for it in the first place if I’m honest. So definitely worth a shot.
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I just saw a few things:
∘ Psytrans, my Dutch Genderclinic is now contracted with four health-insrance providers: Menzis (mine), OWM Zorgverzekeraa Zorg en Zekerheid, CZ / Ohra / Nationale Nederlanden, and ONVZ. That means you no longer need a (non-existing) restitutie-policy anymore to get full coverage from your health-insurance!
∘ Today was one of the days where they announced whether they have space and they did not have any. This sounds bad, but it means that there is a pretty good chance that they will have space next month! (Previous period was also three months between opening the list.)
⇒ If you have Genderdysphoria in the Netherlands and need an official diagnosis for access to care, you have a real chance to get a pretty reasonable offer, if you sign up on their website, on the 6th of october at 09:00:00 (sharp!!!), since it’s first-come-first-serve to get on their rather short 3 month waiting list!
(Seriously though: when I say “sharp”, I mean it. This is competitive and pretty much the only official place in NL with this kind of deal, do not be a minute late or there is a very real chance that it will be too late!)
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Just had a call with my Endo. Quite pleasant, I even turned down an offer for a higher dose, because it would have required me to take gel twice per day instead of just once. (My Estradiol is at 375 pmol∕l, well within their target range of 300-600 pmol∕l, but since this was not just a trough value, but actually delayed compared to the previous day, I figured that the typical value during the day is higher and that I’d rather have slightly lower values, but not deal with using gel twice per day.)
I also took the chance to ask about my other values, since I did loose a lot of weight and was told that my liver and Cholesterol improved, which would be consistent with that and is nice to hear. Sadly they didn’t include hematologic tests (hemoglobin, hemocrit, …) this time, so I’ll go to my GP for that, but after discussing it they will include it next time.
My Vitamin D is still low (barely outside the reference range, which is apparently the large majority of people in NL), which would not be concerning, except that I already take supplements, so I’ll probably increase my intake there and we will check it again in 4 months.
My Prolactin is good now, but I requested to have it checked one more time, just to make sure. (It was high when I was still taking Cypro, which can indicate a problem, so I’ld prefer to be safe there.)
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Tomorrow is the first Monday of the month. That means that #Psytrans will announce whether they have space on their waiting list for their gender-clinic.
If you have some money and a good health insurance and are in the Netherlands, this is probably the fastest way to get official treatment here!
Be there at 09:00:00 sharp! If they have spaces, it’s first-come-first-serve for a short waiting list that actually complies with Dutch law.
The last time they opened the waiting list was in April, I’ve heard (take it as a fourth-hand rumor) that on average they open it like every second months, which would mean that there is a good chance this time around!
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I just got an email that I’m on the waiting list for bottom surgery at Radboud! 😊
This is almost 1.5 months after they should have put me on it and I will remark that lying about when I was done with weight-loss turned out even more fair than I thought, since I essentially got onto the list when I’m (almost) actually done.
So it’s apparently half a year or so until the intake and then between another 0.5-1 years and some further time for recovery until I have a body with which I can feel comfortable going into a public #onsen again !
(Yes, the onsen is an unreasonably large factor in me wanting to get rid of that stuff. 😅)
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I’m about to write an email to the corresponding author of the #Progesterone study. This is my current draft:
Dear Koen,
Thoughts anyone?
in 2024 you and your team registered a study with BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology in which you declare that you will perform a 1 year study on the effects of progesterone and higher Estradiol-levels in the treatment of transgender individuals. Considering that this was now 1.5 years ago, that you had essentially finished recruiting of participants at the time, and that this is a fully pre-registered study, I am somewhat surprised that you still seem to not have published the results.
I am sure that you are aware that many transgender individuals are awaiting these results not least because many endocrinologists even outside VUMC are refusing to prescribe progesterone, pointing to this supposedly soon to be available study. Naturally this is creating avoidable tension and I am aware of several trans women who have expressed the intention of self-medicating progesterone on top of their officially provided HRT regiments.
It is with this background, that I’d like to know what the current status is and when we can expect the final publication.
Best Regards,
Dr. Fiona Weber
I figure that this is one of those places where dropping my PhD might be useful; I’m a bit uncertain about the ambiguity regarding my own situation: It’s obvious from my website (trivial to find from my email) that I’m a transgender cryptographer, not a medical doctor, but it’s not like I claim to be. It might come across as me implying it in a deceiving manner though, which could be harmful… So I’m not sure if I should just say it directly to avoid that scenario.
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Just got a call from the fuckers in Amsterdam (VUMC) whether they need to keep me on their waiting list. I told them that I’m essentially through the entire process (no thanks to them), and should now be put on Radboud’s surgery waiting-list any day now and that they can remove me from theirs, since I prefer to work with psytrans. (Maybe I should have said “because unlike for you, I do have some trust into those people…”)
I did ask them where in the waiting list they are currently and was told that they are now dealing with people who were referred to them in 2020…
I also asked about the #progesterone study that they should really have published already, but the person who called me claimed to not really know anything about, go figure…
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Just had another short call with psytrans…
We were mostly talking about surgeries again and it again felt that things might be going somewhere… 😊
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So #DutchHellcare apparently refuses to even put me onto the fucking waiting lists for surgeries until I have a BMI ≤ 30. 😞
I guess one of the issues with that is that the reward for getting there is to be put on a waiting list for an event at which you are going to be put on another waiting list.
That said: It definitely provides motivation, so let’s see how things are going to go…
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I just had a consultation about my surgeries with #Psytrans.
There are some really good news (#transjoy) and some instances of #DutchHellCare:
Let’s start with the good stuff:
My endocrinologist actually did a nice thing and accepted my detailed records about how I did #OpenHRT combined with the one bloodtest I payed myself as sufficient evidence to accept my actual starting date as starting date for HRT.
Thank you Gina, I really and actually appreciate that! (#NameAndPraise)
This means that the Dutch healthcare system now accepts that I’ve actually completed my first year of HRT, which is the requirement to start the process for #BottomSurgery. 😊
In that regard I’m pretty clear on what I want and at the same time very open about the details: Full #vaginoplasty, no half-meassures like pure #orchiectomy or zero-depth. How exactly they are doing it is something that I don’t particularly care about, which is good, because this is also pretty much the extend to which they let you choose.
Accordingly this part of the conversation was over pretty quickly and we moved to #FacialFeminisationSurgery…
And the first issue is that it is relatively hard to get it covered. You essentially need to have issues passing, because otherwise it would be considered a cosmetic surgery which isn’t covered. Annoying, but on the other hand also somewhat understandable. The more annoying thing is that hair-transplants are almost never covered anyways,
Which brings us to cost…
So first of all Dutch hell-insurance only pays up to Dutch rates which are not cost-covering for bottom surgery (in case anyone was wondering why the waiting-lists are long: This is one of the reasons, hospitals loose money on it), so of the 20.000€ that one could expect to pay in Thailand, Dutch insurances would only pay 14.000€. So a 6000€ difference probably + travel cost. A lot of money, but I could cover that without too many issues.
Now full FFS can apparently get to 40.000€…
Which would not be completely impossible, but in “pillage retirement-savings”-territory…
Well, in the end I decided to go onto Radbout’s waiting list for a combined surgery (which would also be fully covered by health-insurance, which would be a huge benefit), so if I manage to hit the weight-targets, I might get surgery in maybe like two years or so?
Speaking of it: I really need to loose weight, that will definitely be the biggest problem going forward…
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Anyone got experience with https://www.edennew.life/ ?
I was gonna go with them, but then realised my gut was saying no for all the AI stuff on their website.
(But then they sent a marketing e-mail about how they'd tried it but don't find LLM tools to be that helpful?)#trans #transgender #TERFisland #transmasc #transmen #transman #transEnby #NonBinary #NonBinaryHRT #NonBinaryUK #HRT #HormoneReplacementTherapy #transition #MedicalTransition #gender #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQIA2S #queer #queers
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I just noticed something when looking through my transition selfies: My shoulders seem so much wider in the first few months than they do now. I’m not sure if this is just a different posture on early and late pictures, but it’s kinda consistent. And I do notice that things tend to slip of my shoulder more commonly today than they used to in the past…
I like it. 😊
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So it’s almost been 12 weeks since I got my last triptorelin shot (next one is tomorrow and the day after that will be the 12 week point) and I was having severe issues with temperature while sleeping last night and just don’t feel good at all.
Either I had a fever from the cold that I clearly have, or these are hot flashes caused by T no longer being properly suppressed. Most likely it’s the former, but I now took 12.5mg cypro just in case. Bridging gaps is why I have it after all.
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CW: Effects of different Testosterone-blockers on sexuality (medical, but explicit)
When I was still on #OpenHRT I used #Cypro (12.5mg daily with varying doses of E, yes that’s kinda high), which was clearly enough to suppress my T, but since I’ve started official HRT, I’m now on #Triptorelin (a #GNRHagonist, in a rare Dutch healthcare W) with an injection every 12 weeks (my second one will be in 3 days on Wednesday).
My general impression is that cypro did a good job at massively reducing my sex-drive, I feel that triptorelin did a much more thorough job at flattening down most of what was left before.
Even more so with physical function. While it’s not gone completely and technically everything still kinda works, things went from “there is much less liquid” to “this almost feels like there is nothing” (there still is, but I think the consistency also went even more watery) with the change.
1/2
#HRT #DiyHRT #transition #trans #medicaltransition #transfem #transgender
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Just finished a follow-up meeting with my psych from #PsyTrans
It seems like I might actually be able to get facial surgery within a year…
Which is kinda a lot quicker than I expected… 😊
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#Xtra Explains: #SocialTransition vs. #MedicalTransition
#Media and #politicians like to fixate on the #medical aspects of #transition. But for most #trans #youth, #socialtransition plays a much bigger part in their #lives
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Healthcare #GenderAffirmingCare #Transitioning
https://xtramagazine.com/video/social-vs-medical-transition-youth-269074
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Just received my first #triptorelin injection, meaning that I'm now fully on #OfficialHRT. A few more days of cypro to cover the initial flare up, and , I'll hopefully be done with #OpenHRT.
I never regretted it and I will keep looking back fondly at it, but I can't deny that getting it officially is still very nice. 😊
#medicaltransition #diyhrt #transjoy #transition #transfem #transgender
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I finally received my #OfficialHRT prescription. It actually lies on my table now! 😊
Including the 11.25mg triptorelin-injection that is one of the few perks that you get in the Netherlands, because we don’t use Cypro here. I’m a bit flabergasted though, that this GNRH-agonist, whose only officially listed use is the treatment prostate-cancer, completely fails to mention the initial flare-up upon first time use in it’s leaflet. It’s awful for #trans people, but very dangerous for cancer-patients…
Well, personally I’ll just keep taking my cypro for a couple of days after I have my practitioner’s appointment on Thursday to actually administer it, but still…
Anyways, I’m actually quite happy to have finally and actually reached this stage!
#transition #transfem #HRT #medicaltransition #transgender #transjoy
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So, I finally got an official prescription for #HRT and my pharmacy said they will have it tomorrow at 14:00.
Now the issue is that the blood-test they took last Thursday showed admittedly VERY high values of E (3324 pmol/L), though I didn’t know I would get a blood test that day and so took it shortly before (aka: this is pretty much the peak value) on the arm from which the blood was drawn (I did wash it of a bit, but this is known to cause inflated values) and so they initially suggested 2 pumps (1.5mg) with a compromise offer of 4 pumps (3mg) which is still below my compromise offer of 6 pumps (4.5mg) which is far down from my current intake of ≈12mg.
She will discuss it with the Endo again today or tomorrow since I did point out that the value is high due to me using a very high dose and will let me know if they adjust it.
Still it looks like it really is finally officially starting, a mere 8.5 months after I started #OpenHRT. 🙂
#trans #transfem #transition #medicaltransition #OfficialHRT #DIYHRT
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On my way to the maasstad ziekenhus in Rotterdam to hopefully finally receive an official prescription of #HRT!
I still have a multi-year supply of E and significant amounts of Cypro at home/on the way to me, but ideally I won’t need them anymore. Still, I will NOT get rid of them, I trust the healthcare systems of this and other countries WAY too little.
That said, If everything goes well my dose earlier today may have been the last time I engaged in #OpenHRT. 😊
Since I started on the fourth of February at noon, this also means that I started exactly 8 months early, 2 days after receiving my first official diagnosis of #genderdysphoria and about 7 months after I got my second one. #Psytrans, what the fuck was that pointless delay about?
The most interesting question will now be whether they believe me about my starting dates (I can give exact data) and will actually treat me as being the better part of a year on HRT…
#trans #transition #medicaltransition #DIYHRT #DutchHellCare
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Can someone justify to me, why we are still dealing with GNRH-agnoists like Triptorelin for blocking T in the Netherlands and seemingly haven’t even looked into GNRH-antagonists like Degarelix, which don’t come with all that flare-bullshit and directly do the thing that we want them to do?
When I read the list of side-effects of Degarelix on Wikipedia it looks pretty much like your standard run-of-the-mill “it’s an anti-androgen that’s administered by injection”-deal, which is pretty much the same with Triptorelin.
How about we at least do a study about that? Or maybe we should just run that study in the DIY-community? The problem is that I didn’t see an offer on any of the grey-market pharmacies that I checked and therefore don’t know how expensive it would be to do that…
#HRT #trans #transition #transfem #medicaltransition #DiyHRT #OpenHRT #gnrhagonists #gnrhantagonists
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Well, at least one piece of good news: My order from Felicitas arrived on my desk in the office and I should now have enough gel to last me until I *finally* get to see an Endocrinologist + reasonable buffer and in addition enough injectable EEn to give me a ≈3 year emergency backup. So there is that at least. 🙂
#HRT #OpenHRT #DiyHRT #trans #transfem #transition #medicaltransition
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Every politician should be forcibly put on cross-sex hormones until they can convince a pair of hyper-critical psychologists that they really are cis and then manage to see an endocrinologist who signs of on that, but both of these things should come with the same waiting lists as there are for trans people.
I somehow feel we would see the gatekeeping drop to self-identification in no time at all…
(And the same should of course also be done to all employees of #VUMC be honest.)
#trans #transgender #transition #medicaltransition #HRT #DutchHellCare #Netherlands
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A certain girl from Germany just received ≈280€ for homebrew HRT and once that arrives I will finally have PROPER breathing room without any worries of running out anytime soon. 😊︎
Fuck all gatekeepers!
#OpenHRT #DiyHrt #HRT #trans #transfem #transition #medicalTransition
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Apparently some trans girl used #CRISPR to get her testicles to produce estrogen instead of testosterone:
This would have SOOO much potential, not least of all for #DiyHRT, since producing those injections is apparently within the realm of what regular people with the right scientific background can just do at home…
But also in a clinical setting (probably only after the #OpenHRT community has run its own experiments without clinical-supervision, because there is of course no way that we could ever get nice things): Imagine bottom-surgery that doesn’t have to throw the testicles into the medical waste bin and make us dependent on external estrogen for the rest of our live, but would rather stow them away somewhere safe and have them produce E in our own body!
#trans #transgender #transfem #transition #medicaltransition
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Are you #trans and taking #HRT? How did it affect your #EmotionalRange? (Please boost for larger dataset.)
There is a certain conventional wisdom, especially insofar as feminizing HRT is concerned, but it would be nice to have some data.
For this poll, please answer only if you have been taking HRT for at least 2 month at a full dose (microdosing doesn’t count). It doesn’t matter whether you are #binarytrans or #nonbinary.
Feminizing HRT means taking Estrogen either via high-dose monotherapy or with a testosterone blocker.
Masculinizing HRT means taking Testosterone.
Emotional range refers to how strong you feel emotions: A wide emotional range means that you cry easily and experience joy strongly, whereas a narrow emotional range means that emotions feel somewhat dull.
More explanation in comments, especially if the answer is more complicated are of course very welcome.
#transgender #transfem #transmasc #transition #medicalTransition #DiyHrt #OpenHRT #enby #poll
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Just handed in my second prescription from #GenderGP that I had lying around for a while, which means that I am now kinda out of legal options for #OpenHRT, once I’ve run though my remaining stock and the stuff that I ordered today. I still haven’t decided what to do after that.
I think gel is still the preferable option since I might be able to get that from my endo once I have one (If they tell me to use pills, I’ll have them explain in detail to me, why they are putting me at a higher risk than I was at when self-medicating).
In that case there are four options:
* The grey market
* Flying to Portugal or Spain and buying there
* Homebrewers
* Mixing it myself (aka #BathtubEstrogen)I’m kinda still leaning towards the first one, but at ≈100€ a month number 3 and 4 are enticing, NGL.
In any case, fuck the gatekeepers, fuck the Dutch hellcaresystem, fuck VUMC.
#DiyHrt #transition #trans #transgender #transfem #medicaltransition
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Anyone up to founding the “International Association for Evidence-based and Available Transgender Healthcare”, or something like that? Essentially an organization with a very fancy sounding name to publicly push for easy and safe access to #OpenHRT/ #DiyHrt until the medical systems across the world are properly fixed.
Because, again: I really believe that the fact that most #trans people will at some point feel the need to DIY is an extremely strong argument for better access to #HRT, if we get to make it. And sane cis people always acknowledge that when I talk to them. The science is also VERY clearly on our side here.
The issue is that nobody wants to talk about it (to an extend rightly so, considering how dishonest the media are) and that barely anyone has the proper media-training to do so. With an org we might be able to change those things.
Thoughts? Interest? Anyone?
#transgender #transfem #transmasc #transition #medicaltransition
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Since I finished of another bottle of E today, I have, at my current dose, a remaining stockpile of about 60 days here with an option to buy another 40 at the regular pharmacy using GenderGP’s second prescription.
After that I have essentially four options of decreasing cost and approximately increasing risk:
1. Acquire more pharmaceutical grade gel from “Sources”.
2. Check whether the pharamcy notices when you hand in a copy of the previous prescription.
3. Source Injections or Gels from Homebrewers.
4. Prepare my own gel and go all the way to #BathtubEstrogen.
Considering that the Kanker Kut (my GP) wants me to die from a stroke she attempts to create by denying me bloodtests, which are otherwise quite expensive, money is kinda a relevant consideration here. In any case, at the moment I’m leaning to option 3 or 4…
#OpenHrt #DiyHrt #trans #transgender #transfem #transition #medicaltransition #HRT
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Back from my GP to request a blood test…
I told them about doing #OpenHRT, that there is no way in hell that I’ll ever stop, that #GenderGP didn’t work out, and that #Psytrans told me to get bimonthly blood-test, that I have a gut-feeling that my E is still low but that I would prefer to adjust my dose based on measurements and not gut-feelings.
You would think that that would be enough to prescribe a simple #BloodTest, but instead there was a lot of concern-trolling and I was told that they’ll call me back later today after they discussed it amongst colleagues.
Let’s see…
And I’m serious: If they don’t give me a blood test, I will increase the dose even if it is only to spite them. Fuck all Gatekeepers!
#DIYHRT #HRT #trans #transgender #transfem #medicaltransition #transition
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Just brought my GenderGP-prescription to the pharmacy next to me.
98€ for 4×80g Oestrogel
My grey-market seller takes
92.28€ for 3×80g Gynokadin
+ 25€ flat for shipping to EuropeIn other words: The Pharmacy IS cheaper, but it really makes no sense once you factor in how expensive #GenderGP is.
Also means that the grey market markup is notable, but not to the point of being outrageous.
#OpenHrt #trans #transition #transfem #medicalTransition #DiyHrt
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I am fairly certain that I am starting to experience boob-growth and also notice that they feel cold on occasion. Is this common/normal?
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Today is Day 14 of my current HRT-dosing (12.5mg Cypro + 3mg transdermal E per day)/ Day 46 of HRT.
I’ve had noticeably smoother skin for a while now and am starting to suspect that there is in fact some lightening of my body-hair as well as maybe (?) slightly larger boobs? I had man-boobs before, so it’s hard to say for certain, but I’ve also now felt very occasional very weak… THINGS in the area, so this might now actually be coming. 😊︎
#trans #transition #transgender #transfem #HRT #OpenHRT #DiyHRT #medicaltransition
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My prescription from GenderGP, that I had requested on the 10th of January, that they signed on the 12 to of January and that they, according to the sticker of the postal service, mailed on the 15th of January, arrived TODAY on the 22nd of February. WTF? This was a normal letter, not a parcel or anything!
Now the question is what I’m going to do with it, since I already ordered plenty of stuff on the gray-market which enabled me to start HRT two and a half weeks ago and also already ordered cypro, which this prescription doesn’t cover.
The thing is: I expect my currently ordered supplies to last me until I get a Dutch prescription that will at least partially be covered by my health-insurance. Then again: Having spare Estrogen really appears to be a good idea at this point.
Decisions…
#transition #transgender #DiyHRT #OpenHRT #medicaltransition #trans #transfem
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2 Weeks into #OpenHRT (#DiyHRT) I’m definitely noticing the effects on my psyche: I suddenly laugh loudly at jokes or situations that aren’t even particularly funny and I when I feel bad I can finally cry again. It’s just amazing!
#trans #transgender #transition #transfem #HRT #medicaltransition
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Somehow I feel I’m less hungry these days… Like I can eat half of what I ate before and just be no longer hungry.
Someone here claimed that this is a potential effect of HRT which I’ve been on for a bit over a week by now…
This would be so amazing if that was really it…
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For the first time in my #transition I feel truly respected by someone in the medical system, even if they are just a grey-market seller: I told them what I want, they told me where to send the money, I sent the money and they sent the medication. It can all be so simple! I don't need bullshit psych-evals or people trying to be friendly with me (while gatekeeping medical treatment), I need someone who is actually willing to help and if they make some money off it, that is fine by me.
#OpenHrt #MedicalTransition #DiyHrt #trans #transgender #transfem
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I may or may not have just spend the best part of 200€ to order HRT from… sources.
To the Dutch healthcare-system I have but one question:
#DIYHRT #OpenHRT #Transfem #transition #transgender #MedicalTransition
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When you consider to start #DiyHrt with Spiro or Cypro instead of Finasteride (besides Estradiol) because @GenderGP still hasn’t managed to send me the prescription that I requested three weeks (you cannot tell me that mailing a piece of paper from the UK takes that long) and Finasteride is harder to get on the gray market than either of the above.
I’m just mad at this point.
#HRT #transition #MedicalTransition #transfem #trans #transgender
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CW: Medical transition with unpleasant physical changes
Everyone's hype about dragon HRT but have you considered how taur HRT would go down?
Let's say you're seeking HRT (Humanity Replacement Therapy) and being a coyote taur would resolve your species dysphoria. Fantastic, we can do that no problem. Here's your bottle of pills. Go have fun.
Early treatment
About a week into treatment you start seeing changes you'd expect for a coyote. Tufts of fur and a change in appetite. You feel soreness all over but you know it's only temporary and for the better. Just some growing pains.
About a month or two in you start to notice yourself growing taller. Longer even. A pair of budding forepaws are making themselves visible around your waist. Tiny at first but soon they'll grow out. Your tail is beginning to form and the fur adorning your arms looks lush and beautiful.
4 Months
About four months in and your body has shifted in such a way that walking has become all but impossible. It's just too awkward being in-between. You're on medical leave from work and you wonder how long you're gonna be dealing with the awkwardness of having these tiny arms growing out of what is now your waist. You feel your stomach turn as your body somehow makes an entire second set of organs in your elongated body. A second set of intestines. A new larger stomach. The faint beat of your second heart, weak but growing in strength. You take those first strained breaths with your new pair of lungs and feel amazing.
Your back is arching slightly in the early stages of accommodating your lower torso, sore with splitting pain coming and going. You're bound to your bed. You do your business in a basin or via catheter. Showering at this point is miserable, but you know in the end it'll all be worth it.
8 Months
About eight months in your body has mostly shifted into it's final form, but you need physical therapy to learn how to walk as a quadruped. They teach you how to raise and lower your paws and flex your legs. They guide you relaxing the new muscles around the joint between your upper and lower bodies, a naturally strong part of your new body responsible for a lot of your flexibility. Lean forward, lean back. Twist left, twist right. Lean back, lean forward and touch the floor. And just like that, your forelegs lower to the ground. You're getting the hang of it!
1 Year
About a year in and you're pretty much set to go. You're a little clumsy sometimes but you can trot and leap and rear up on your hind legs. Just look at you go! By now you're able enough to return to work on light duty in a taur-friendly role. You were always doing what you love but you're a changed creature. You're "you" now, the physical made manifest through the miracle of modern science and your sheer determination. And nobody can take that from you.
As you come home from work you trot past a group of kids playing ball in the street. They look on in amazement, hardly recognizing you until they call you by name. Their sheer excitement at your novel form warms your two hearts. You can't help but let them hold your paws and invite them to sit on your back. You know you would've loved to have had that experience as a child. Maybe one of your neighbours is a coyote taur too.
#otherkin #therian #coyote #taur #medicaltransition #transformation #humanityreplacementtherapy #hrt #otherkinhrt #therianhrt
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Just had my third appointment with psytrans (my gender-clinic) and it seems that the likely thing is that I may end up with a diagnosis from them by the 2nd of February. They will then refer me to an independent psychologist who has to confirm that which may involve another month of waiting for an appointment. After that we would look for a hospital to start #HRT…
So in short this sounds like there’ll be about two more months until I can start HRT officially. 😊︎
On the other hand #GenderGP should now send me a prescription for #Finasteride and #Estrogen any day now, so if that works I could start a bit early… 😈
#trans #transition #medicaltransition #transfem #transgender
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I had my fifth #laserhairremoval today and some degree of routine is setting in as well as very clearly visible results. I also commented that shaving has gotten much smoother and got told that some hairs are also thinner now which would explain that. Which is awesome!
Then I got a response from GenderGP about how my GP doesn’t want to give me prescriptions under their guidance and just ordered a paper-prescription from them. Would anyone happen to know a good pharmacy around Eindhoven that accepts those without too much ado? (Apparently a lot of Dutch pharmacies illegally insist on Dutch prescriptions.)
#trans #transition #medicaltransition #hrt #transgender #transfem