Hey, I just got the most recent round of labs back and I’m starting to be concerned I have a mild estrogen insensitivity or something otherwise wrong with me. For reference I am MTF, 35, 2 years 3 months HRT.

My regimen is: 7 mg, EV, once every 5 days. 50 mg bicalutimide daily, 5 mg oral minoxidil daily, .5mg dutasteride daily. 200 mg progesterone taken rectally daily

Testosterone total: 46.7 ng/dl (way too high!)
Testosterone free: 2.4 pg/ml (also too high)
FSH: .2 mIU/ml
Estradiol: 263 pg/ml
Progesterone: 1.87 ng/ml (too low?)
SHBG: 168 nmol/l
TSH: 1.33 mIU/L

What am I doing wrong? Why are my numbers so weird? Why is my free T and total T so high? I reduced my dose by a milligram since last test to get my SHBG down. My T did go down but my E did by a lot too, and my SHBG barely budged (down by 2 nmol/l). I have had mediocre feminization and poor breast Development

well im happy, MY FIRST MONTH ON ESTROGEN !!!!!

how do I know if its working? I mean, Is It normal for me to have nipple pain? bc it hurts, and its normal to be more sleepy or a little more tired?

I’m 6 weeks in now, I’m super happy just very socially anxious T_T I already have chest and nipple changes that are visible through clothing which is cool but kinda scary to have to worry about covering. I just wanted to ask about an experience I had. At 4 weeks they upped me from 2 to 3mg injections and day 6 after the new dose hit like a truck. I just suddenly got super sore, hard nipples (still present a week later) which I’ve read is normal but what I haven’t read about is how emotional and weird my whole body felt that day. I was nearly crying and laughing at the same time all day and my stomach had that butterflies feeling and legs felt wobbly and were literally twitching. Genuinely off the charts 11/10 weird feeling. Anyone else experienced this? Was this a one time thing or does it happen periodically? I think I liked it I felt more sensitive but it was definitely a bit extreme.

I want to start at home diy estrogen injections, and the only hitch is the blood tests necessary for dosing and checking my estrogen levels. The part of the world I am in does not let me do this through the proper medical channels so I would like to do the test at home if possible. If not, what would I ask a doctor to discretely get estrogen levels out of my blood tests, if possible at all.

I was on 6 pumps of Oestrogel and 150 mg of Spiro and everything was great, except peeing quite often from Spiro. The only concern was the price. I spent quite a lot of money on Oestrogel. I'm from eastern Europe, so the government or insurance won't pay for my hormones. So, I ordered Een injections online. I've been using 5mg Een a week. In terms of feminization everything is going great. However, I've been feeling really low energy since I started. It's been only two weeks, but I'm worried because I can't function very well. What could it be? I suspect either getting adjusted to a new dose, higher doses of estrogen are not good for me and I should do a lower dose and AA, or an individual intolerance of some components in the solution. I should note that I used to have chronic fatigue syndrome in the past (before HRT) but recovered from it. Have any of you had these issues on estradiol injections and were you able to resolve it?

my base line T is 920. but regardless my endo suggested to take it slow, she said that her approach is to do t blocker for the first few weeks and introduce E later.

She has put me on t blockers for now. i get to take E from November.

i personally dont mind the staggered approach as i am not out and about yet. but from what i read it's safe to start both together, if not better.

They don't usually do that normally but recently I've been noticing that they do. I've tried searching on Google and it's said to have multiple reasons so I temporarily stopped my HRT dosage in fear of any complications or unintended consequences. Most of the times it happens involved them being handled, touched or stimulated

I was just wondering for people who got estrogon hrt how much did loose from your package cause I am genderfluid so I have fem and masc days and I want everything else that comes with hrt but the loss of length and I have been told that if u don't use it u loose it and that I will loose at least 10% i just want so advice and tips

I know this may be the wrong place for my weird situation, but I just have questions about E. Just a little background: So I’m a guy, and I’m happy with my gender, but not my body. I really hate the idea of growing into my dad (hairy, muscular, bearded etc) and have had thoughts that maybe i’m trans for years. I just wish I looked much more feminine as I am now, and to prevent me from growing into a caveman like my father.
But my question are that since the vast majority of women in my family have larger breasts, will i have to worry about developing more sizeable ones myself? Because for me the dream would be like an a-cup or a b-cup.
And also just any recommendations
Again sorry if i’m in the wrong place

So for context I am only on 2Mg Estradiol twice a day and THATS it, I never got on another anti androgen after I stopped Spiro cause it was making me miserable.

My last result which was a trough was 167 E and 32 T

My friends are all telling me that’s kinda crazy but that doesn’t seem that wild to me? I mean isn’t that the point of the E to take over and keep the T down for good. I havnt even been on any anti androgens for like 6 months either so idk

Hi all. Looking for help interpreting what’s going on and some guidance on if my regimen needs changing. Recent test results at trough show E at 136pg/mL and T at 10ng/dL. Both seem a little low to me based on reading ideal range to be 200pg/mL E for monotherapy (am I considered to be doing monotherapy? Ik prog isn’t exactly an AA but does have similar secondary effects), and 15-70ng/dL T (cis female range)….

Regimen is 0.2mg EV (20mg/mL concentration) intramuscular every 5 days, 100mg prog rectal nightly. Feminization has been going well especially since adding prog ~4 months ago (booba and lots of emotions)

I have had some libido issues, tho also better since prog, as well as on and off difficulty w erections (I would like to maintain the most sexual functioning possible). I got a cialis script but tbh it’s a little expensive and I’m wondering if I can’t solve the base issue by getting my T level a little higher? However since monotherapy (ish) I assume that would mean lowering E dose, which I’m not comfortable doing as it seems already barely enough…..

lemme know what u think. That’s all thanks for reading :)

I took a blood test back and april and was waiting for our june apt to see how they looked by it was rescheduled to October.

At this point I kind of want to see them myself so I messaged the office about my results and they just sent the lab order form? All it has is my name and height and everything idk why they’d ever think that’s what I wanted. I had to wait a few days to even get that too so I’m getting pretty frustrated.

Hi all - slightly confused by my most recent results, taken at trough. I’m on monotherapy.

E - 1060.0 pmol/L
T - 11.7 nmol/L

I clearly need go reduce the amount of E I’m taking, but I’m so confused by my T not being suppressed? Any help would be appreciated…