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~5 mg (~0.10 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-stabber 💉🩹

Words struggling. Copy/pasted/edited above. Will edit to explain lower dose another time.

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~8 mg (~0.16 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Higher-than-normal dose today after having to do a lower dose (~4 to 4.5 mg) last Friday evening because of NHS blood test earlier today.

We'll see early next week whether we're still getting about 125 pmol/L at trough for each 1 mg of EEn we inject a week before.

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~4 to 4.5 mg (~0.08 to 0.09 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

"Why the lower dose today?", we imagine regulars might wonder.

Well, we've got an NHS blood test booked next Friday morning, which will include hormone level tests for our gender clinic, so sadly we need our estradiol level to be between 400 and 600 pmol/L so that they don't complain at us :Sighing_Face:

Our estradiol trough goes up by roughly 125 pmol/L for each 1 mg we inject, so this should put our estradiol level somewhere between about 500 and 600 pmol/L.

If enough folks asks for it, we'll do a poll to guestimate what our estradiol test result will be after the test 🩷

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~7.5 mg (~0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Only a little over 2 hours after our reminder went off today, which is practically early by our current standards 🤭

Completely perfect injection today. No insertion pain, bleeding, leakage, or even mild discomfort when pulling out the needle, despite being tired 🥰

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~8 mg (~0.16 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Nearly 5 hours later than planned tonight, due to doing other stuff, and a teeny bit of a higher dose than normal, because next week is likely gonna be a more-stressful one, so we wanted a little extra cushion for the season, ya know?

It's the most stressful-est time of the year, after all 😅

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~7 to 7.5 mg (~0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Did it about maybe an hour ago, but forgot to do the post immediately afterwarss. It was still 2-3 hours late, but that's kind of become the default 😅 All that matters really is that it was a perfect injection: easy, painless, and no bleeding 🥰

Every injection also feels like a big middle finger up to the NHS and NICE for refusing to prescribe estradiol injections within the UK 🖕🤘

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~7 to 7.5 mg (~0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Only a couple of hours late tonight, plus painless with zero blood, both of which are great considering how tired we are and how freezy the house currently is 😅

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~7 to 7.5 mg (~0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Delayed again by a few hours today. Didn't think we'd have the spoons to do it at all tonight, but had a slight rally. Weird injection though. Not painful, just uncomfortable when pulling out the needle. No blood spurt or anything. Might have been we loosened our grip on the z-track or something, or because we did more walking today by far than we have typically done for 6-12 months. Anyway, all went in fine and no pain afterwards.

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~7.5 mg (~0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Life delayed our injection several hours again today (like last week), but it was actually a really good injection, especially for our left thigh. Not a spot of blood even 🥰

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~7.5 mg (~0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Several hours later than scheduled tonight, as was absolutely thoroughly exhausted from today and needed to rest and nap for a while first.

Not a perfect injection, but not painful. Teeny tiny bleed, which we spotted immediately and stopped.

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~7.5 mg (~0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Super quick, easy, and painless injection today, without even a drop of blood afterwards 🥰 Must have hit an ideal spot.

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~7.5 mg (~0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Only about an hour late tonight. Another painless, easy injection :TransHeart:

As an aside, today marks 4 years since we started feminising GAHT on 2021-10-31.

Hallowe'en 2021 was day 1 for us: today is day 1462.

We'd like to do a proper post reflecting on the last 4 years of feminising GAHT, as well as update our transition photo timeline, ... but, at the time of writing this post, we honestly don't know whether we have the focus, spoons, energy, or right frame of mind to do it tonight.

Guess we'll see 🫶

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Later than planned tonight, as started eating dinner late, but entirely painless and only a teeny, tiny spot of blood slowly came out as we pulled the needle out :TransHeart:

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Right on time tonight, but had to rush, as needed to fit it in quickly whilst food was cooking. Had a bleeder, but caught it immediately. Injection was still painless and otherwise goodly :TransHeart:

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Only an hour late tonight, so that's practically on-time 🤭

Only difficulty was the Unicorn-themed medical plaster, which refused to come out of the packaging. Had to use a plain one instead.

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Almost on time again this evening, as didn't want to run out of energy and/or risk forgetting :TransHeart: :NonBinaryHeart:

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Intentionally strove to do it on time tonight (~18:00), as otherwise knew we'd likely end up leaving it until another day, based on current limited capabilities and capacities.

It wasn't exactly our most-proficient injection ever, but any injection that's quick, that's painless, and that doesn't cause an active bleed thereafter is positive, especially when you're struggling :TransHeart: :NonBinaryHeart:

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Did it a little late (just under 3 hours after our calendar reminder), but that's pretty much par for the course these days 😅

The key thing is that it was an easy and painless injection :TransFemHeart:

... plus every DIY injection we do is still like a big middle finger up to the NHS, NICE, and the UK government 🖕✊

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Despite headache / possible migraine, for which we've taken meds and are wearing sunglasses, we managed to it painlessly and without issue :TransHeart:

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Done only a couple of hours after our calendar reminder too 🥰🤭

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Had to do it quickly, before it got later and we forgot or ran out of energy, but it was painless and easy :TransFemHeart:

Edit: If you saw the dumb-arse copy/paste fail we just did, shhh 🤫

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Found that we had a remaining unicorn medical plaster (aka bandaid), so of course used that 🦄🤘

Despite being tired and achy (particularly headachy) AF tonight, we managed a swift, painless injection once again with the auto-injector 😊

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Did it roughly on time this week 🥰🩷

FYI, for anyone who hasn't seen our earlier posts and thinks something like, "Golly! That's a high dose!", it's actually not 😅

Whilst simulations typically suggest this would give us a high estradiol level, our trough only goes up by about 125 pmol/L for each 1 mg of estradiol enanthate injected.

As such, we're looking at a trough of about 875 to 938 pmol/L, and a peak under 1100 pmol/L, which is a perfectly-safe range for estradiol injections where a higher-level is desired for mood and for applying negative pressure to the HPG axis :TransHeart:

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Should have done it yesterday evening from about 18:00 onwards, so it's about 18 hours later than usual 😅

Though we often do our injection a little later than planned, this is the first time in a while that we've actually neglected to do it until the next day 🤦‍♀️

In fairness to ourselves though, we were very tired yesterday (and still are today) and had a lot of other things on our mind :catgirl_sleepy:

Plus we're using estradiol enanthate, which has a longer elimination half-life than both estradiol cypionate and estradiol valerate, so any level drop would have been minimal.

Our eventual aim will be to switch over to a monthly injection of estradiol undecylate (at 100 mg/mL), but we'd prefer to keep a more-stable, higher level until our gonads get yeeted and become nonads 🤭

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

~4 hours later than our reminder time, because it's been a day 😅

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Accidentally did it a little bit later tonight, but it was a super easy injection. Probably helps that we've got like 10 hours of actual sleep since last night 😅

Also took some quick photos and a video to try to turn into an auto-injector review at some point soon™️ :TransHeart:

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our left thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

(In case anyone's wondering, we added clarification to give a slightly range on the dose today and last week due to tiredness, as that might have made our dose less accurate.)

Did it more-or-less on time, but wasn't as easy a one today. Considering the relative lack of sleep we've had recently (especially today even with a nap), that probably contributed.

Still, even a less-easy auto-injector injection is noticeably much easier than a difficult manual injection for us. It might not have been flawless, but we're still talking in terms of "slightly felt it, but not actually painful". More like "minor discomfort" at worst.

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~7 to 7.5 mg (0.14 to 0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Actually did it on time today. Had to really focus on doing so, but it's done for another week. Fully painless.

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~7.5 mg (0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our leftthigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Did earlier today, cos mind is getting eepy and tired sooner than optimal and didn't want to leave until late, like we have in previous weeks :PleadingFace:

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~7.5 mg (0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹

Left it late again today because other stuff needed doing first, rather than out of active choice.

Had a small bleed (because of course we did right now 🤦‍♀️) but caught it immediately because we're just expecting small things like that to happen right now and staying on guard accordingly. Otherwise painless and easy :TransHeart:

For anyone looking at 7.5 mg on an E2-level simulator and getting confused: all the online simulators massively overestimate E2 level for us. We've adjusted ours, based on several blood tests.

For each 1 mg we inject, our trough (blood drawn in morning; injection in evening that same day) goes up by about 125 pmol/L. Allowing for a margin of error, we like to keep our trough >= 900 pmol/L.

If you use the Estrannaise simulator, our results with 7.5 mg weekly are what it suggests someone would get with 4 mg. (It overestimates E2 level for us by about 88%.)

Just mentioning this, as folks sometimes forget that simulators are just simulations and won't tell you 100% what E2 level you'll get from a dose.

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Hey folks

A friend of ours has been experiencing something odd that we've not seen before:

• Her estradiol (E2) pmol/L per mg level has been gradually rising over the last 305 days.

... and we lack the understanding of statistical analysis to be able to analyse it properly 😞

All injections were done weekly, using estradiol enanthate compounded at 40 mg/mL from the same homebrewer.

We don't think markdown tables work in Glitch-SOC, so here's all the data we have in a non-tabular form.

Date: 2023-12-28
Volume: 0.13 mL
Dose: 5.2 mg
Trough: 724 pmpl/L
Pmol/L per mg: ~139

Date: 2024-03-26
Volume: 0.17 mL
Dose: 6.8 mg
Trough: 1272 pmpl/L
Pmol/L per mg: ~187

Date: 2024-10-28
Volume: 0.16 mL
Dose: 6.4 mg
Trough: 2491 pmpl/L
Pmol/L per mg: ~272

We're not sure how to use the data to model how to get her pmol/L per mg stable, rather than steadily increasing.

The desired aim is to keep her pmol/L trough roughly between 750 to 900 pmol/L, without it increasing steadily over time.

We think this might mean moving to a 8-10 day injection cycle and a lower dose (0.10 to 0.12 mL; 4 to 4.8 mg), but we are not sure how to do it.

Can anyone help us out here? :PleadingFace:

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