The cycle is 3 weeks on, one week off. Would this be the cycle to go along with androcur or should it be estrofem 2mg every day with no cycle off?

SaintCut (imported) wrote: Sat May 19, 2012 2:57 pm The cycle is 3 weeks on, one week off. Would this be the cycle to go along with androcur or should it be estrofem 2mg every day with no cycle off?

You feel better with stable hormone levels. So, as far, as I remember, you do not cycle. Both androcur and estrofem.

Use the search on the forum. See here (http://www.eunuch.org/forums/showthread ... feminizing) first.

If I remember correctly, Transward said more than once, that unstable hormone levels can lead to strong mood swings.

fhunter wrote: Sat May 19, 2012 3:14 pm You feel better with stable hormone levels. So, as far, as I remember, you do not cycle. Both androcur and estrofem.

Use the search on the forum. See here (http://www.eunuch.org/forums/showthread ... feminizing) first.

If I remember correctly, Transward said more than once, that unstable hormone levels can lead to strong mood swings.

A few years ago it was more common for doctors to cycle hormones to better mimic the monthly hormone swings of natal women. High estrogen and low progesterone for three week then switch, high progesterone and little or no E for a week. After a few years most didn't see any advantage to the cycling, and it seemed to cause more emotional problems, so now most just prescribe a constant dose of E and many skip the progesterone entirely, (it seems to exacerbate the depression that is endemic to many trans women). A few still do it the old way, and I have run into a few trans women who figure that if PMS is good enough for natal women than they wanted in on it too, in order to be "real women" (Some pursue lactation for similar reasons)

You have to remember that despite some pioneering work before, the medical treatment of transsexuals is only 30-40 years old , and there simply are not enough of us to conduct the kind of research it would take to firmly establish the best protocols. No matter how many degrees they have on their walls, for us, they're still making it up as they go along. (Stanley Biber, who turned Trinidad, Colorado, an obscure small mining town, into the sex-change capitol of the world, performed his first SRS surgeries after a telephone conversation with a Johns Hopkins Dr who had done a few before. He had never seen one, let alone scrubbed in on one.)

Transward