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I'm on 2 x 0.72 mg patches every two days, plus 50 mg spiro and 100 mg prog every day. That gets me to 268 pg/mL E2 and 58 ng/dL testosterone, last blood test. I'd like to switch to a different anti-androgen though; I'm getting pretty fed up with the effects of spiro.

This is a bit of a cop-out answer, but the effects of HRT vary hugely based on the person. The "relief" you are feeling might be placebo, might be due to biochemical dysphoria, or a bit of both.

When I was on injections, I definitely felt a bit crappy at the end of the week, and a lot better about 30 minutes after my dose.

When I was getting my dose for patches worked out, I felt what I can only describe as "testosterone anxiety", which persisted as I slowly bumped up my dose over a couple of weeks and eventually went away when I got up to three patches. (Now I'm on spiro and back down to two, and things are fine). This was a different feeling to injections wearing off.

Now the only thing I notice is that I get four days of being really tired and bitchy pretty consistently every 25 days or so. I'm not going to speculate what that is, but since I'm on a very stable dose of two patches every two days, I don't think it's due to dosage.

Yay! It sure does feel good.

Enjoy your new female metabolism :)

Good luck to you. I sincerely hope it goes better than you imagine.

Although I suspect and hope your friends will be accepting. Best wishes!

That's fascinating, thank you!

Yay! Spiro sucks.

Haha, yes that's exactly right!

Nice!

Yeah, it's scary, right? Your whole life has been turned inside out.

Your wife being supportive will make things so much easier as you figure out what you want to do going forward.

There's no rush. You can take things as slow as you need; do as little or as much as you feel comfortable with. It's also possible your feelings about what you want will change going forward. That's pretty normal.

It's also very normal for the pressure (do you know what I mean?) that caused your egg to crack to suddenly ease up, and make you start doubting yourself: whether you really want or deserve this. So be ready for that. Don't forget that you've felt this way all your life!

And welcome to the fold! We've all been through exactly where you are right now.

Still waiting for approval for surgery here, but thank you so much as always for talking about your experiences. It's really helpful to know what I might have to face going forward.

It does sound like your brain is playing tricks. Hope things calm down soon <3

Yeah you did! Awesome!

I, er, don't know. But I'm kind of curious now. I assume something like hand sanitizer?

It smells pretty good, though, although I can't think of anything similar.