I'm also taking 20 Mg of progenova and 6 Mg of estrodiol daily my total estrogen level was at 34 I'm not sure if that a good thing or not.



If I'm correct you are taking 20mg of progynova which is oral estradiol valerate plus another 6mg of some other oral estradiol preparation.

So totally you ...

The latest I have read is that estradiol is indeed beneficial for women with menopause, for their bones, and that the doeage should be .625 mg daily



estrogen dosage largely depends on concrete medication, and also on the person and the medication delivery method (oral, injection, transdermal ...

Punkypink,

This is just to say that I totally agree with your view towards "admirers" of ts women. I think you have described the reality of such "admirations" very well.

SplitDik (imported) wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:07 pm The most common forcible castrations are probably intersex people who doctors choose to "make female" and other mentally ill people...

One small correction: IS people are not mentally ill.

..
. Estrogen is not a libido enhancing hormone, estrogen will not give you sexual desire. Men & women both have testosterone and when the testosterone levels drop due to age, menopause, or castration, the libido drops too. ...



Really? My experience does not show this. My testosterone levels ...

I have read about similar study (It very well may be that it was the same), though not in English. In it it was stated that participants were women. Therefore T dose was small. It is very likely that it made them feel better (better mood, clearer thinking). Nearly everyone is fairer, when they feel ...

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I tend to think that what ever "fuel" you use be it Estrogen or Testosterone can define you as male or female. As to the idea that a third sex (an asexual castrate) being part of this? I agree.



Not only this. I think that most crucial factor here is psycho-social identity- i.e. how one ...

The article was printed back in 1965.



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Actually this explains a lot of things in the article.

It is sad that even Today, quite a lot of doctors are like this, especially in more concervative (typically catholic) countries. I know one person from the Eastern part of Europe who was declared ...

This paper is long, but very interesting:

http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/reprint/27/1/53.pdf



In a way this paper illustrates incompetence/rigid thinking of doctors. They should have sent this person to psychiatrist/psychologist specializing in GID (i.e. trannsexuals) for evaluation ...

butcherbaby (imported) wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:33 am In the forum of myevanesce are numerous posts that indicate that these herbal products work almost like real hormones.

Herbal products can mimic action of estriol at best, and estriol is about 1000 times weaker than estradiol.