Six Months on HRT.
Starting to stabilize.
(AI Art Prompted by Me.)
Well it’s about that time for me, coming up on another month anniversary of taking my HRT! Six months ago I began this journey. There’s been a lot of positive changes. Some difficulties, which were unfortunately made worse due to varying external issues. But now I am hitting a point where I feel things are on a very good track.
When I did my bloodwork for my 6mo checkup, results came back showing my T levels had dropped significantly, however my E was barely at the low end of what it should be. My endocrinologist thought even if we doubled my patches and maxed out what’s possible there, I wouldn’t get to where I needed to be still. So we decided to move to injections!
I’m not really scared of needles (although during my bloodwork I just had done I nearly fainted and the nurse had issues finding a good vein, so that was weird..). So far I’ve injected myself twice. The first time no issues at all, I barely felt the thing. Second which I just did earlier this afternoon I think I kinda messed up, didn’t have enough “meat” pinched between my fingers and was standing awkwardly and accidentally pulled the needle out, so I had to stick myself again… it was kinda pinchy and uncomfortable for a couple hours, but has finally settled down now.
But I think I can definitely FEEL the difference of having more E in my system immediately. I was getting flushed cheeks a lot previously, and the past week it’s barely happened. I also have been starting to take a new ADHD med, so that’s probably having some affect on me as well.
Overall, this week I feel my mental and emotional state has been a lot better. This is also despite still on leave from work due to [REDACTED] reasons, and no word of potential timeline of things being resolved any time soon.
So I’ve been playing my trombone a lot more again. I’m really digging into my pop/rock material, building my range, getting stylistic inflections going. I’ll be recording more material soon. I really want to find the prime mix of tunes I want to put out as an EP, and augment them with more for a live-set.
If you follow my profile regularly on this app, you may have also noticed my almost daily series of “No Fucks February” notes. Or if not, now you know, if you want to read some unhinged ranting and raving and painful monologuing, be my guest. Inspired by another writer on here who was doing the project and I thought I’d give it a shot. Basically every day (or as close to it as I can, I’ve been managing about every other day most of the month) I just write out whatevers on my mind, totally unfiltered, unedited, uncensored, and before I can regret anything I post it. I did have one day I just couldn’t post what I had started to write, as I was in a very dark headspace then… but things have been getting a bit better lately.
Anyway, for now at this milestone, I can still say that I feel I am doing the right thing for my mind and body.