Gfbi7890 (imported) wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:03 pm I had an appt. Yesterday with my gender doctor, all went well. We talk about the up and coming surgery, future further surgery options and post HRT. She did a breast exam and general health questions. I do need to get a MRI breast screening done this spring. She wants me to schedule a follow up appt. After surgery. She did do some blood work. All was good, hormones levels are T 284 E124 and P 2.0 the T is high as I don’t take the HRT full time, I tend to cycle on and off as I do not want large breasts, my body responses a lot when on HRT and it seam to be cumulative. No issue with moods or anything. I also have appt. With my therapist today, looking forward to that and the day this is done.
Sounds like good progress. Congratulations... Is you gender doc an endocrinologist, or do you have one? It might be worth checking about the wisdom of going on and off the estrogen HRT.... I'm not an expert, but what I have heard is that starting estrogen is basically sending your breasts the same signals a girl gets when she hits puberty, namely that it's time for the
to start growing... So you get a big initial growth spurt that slows down after a few months, and then you keep going until they are 'full grown' at 1-2 years... This also matches my experience with staying on E patches consistently. I have not heard that there is anything to keep you from ending up with whatever your body thinks is it's 'design spec' other than possibly switching to SERMs which have their own issues.... I do NOT know, but wonder if switching on and off could be sending your body lots of 'growth spurt' signals and make you end up with BIGGER breasts than you would have gotten if you had been on steadily... I could be entirely wrong, but seems like it would be worth checking...WheelyFixed
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