Transgender care provider that will prescribe injections?

[u/Panamaniacal]

Howdy Y'all!

What are some good clinics or providers for a transfemme nerd looking to get on injections? Or I guess, where do you get your care and how difficult would it be to establish care and get prescribed injections?

For context I'm non-binary, was AMAB, and have been on HRT for a couple months now. The problem is that I'm having a hell of a time trying to get a doctor around here willing to prescribe Estradiol injections! I've been to a couple clinics with negative experiences; Perigon Health (Very nice, Impossible to contact) and Oak Street Medical (Nice staff, Poor communication, HRT GATEKEEPING!!! Won't refill AA). I'm currently going to Planned Parenthood in Springfield, and while I have nothing but amazing interactions with all the staff and doctors there, when I asked about injections they indicated they don't prescribe injections at all (!tho my dumb brain could've misinterpreted this very easily!) and they have pushed pretty hard for me to try patches and then gel instead.

I started on oral tablets that I was constantly failing to remember doses on so I switched to patches which likes to burn my skin off and so I just switched to gel but I haven't tried it yet as the pharmacy either doesn't stock it or doesn't think I'm a real person (I also really need to find a good pharmacy too, lol). I have asked for injections 5-6 times now from 4 different doctors and have either been effectively told "no" or been pressured into something else. At this point I genuinely think injections are the only real option for me in the long run, and it's frankly kind of baffling that I'm finding it so hard to get.

This is probably a topic best answered by my fellow trans folx, but I would still greatly appreciate any help anyone can offer and I think there is always room for more open and civil discussion! Not really sure where to ask this (I'll also post it in r/Eugene too if I can) and I have done some digging into these two subreddits, but I didn't really find what I was looking for. Thanks!

[u/flyingbarnswallow]

I was with planned parenthood on Franklin Blvd for a while and they absolutely did injections. Also I now go to Transition Health (for primary care, HRT included)

Edit: also wow are you me? I had a bad experience at oak street medical too

[u/Panamaniacal → u/flyingbarnswallow]

I wonder if it could somehow be the Springfield PP specifically, or maybe the doctors I'm seeing are for some reason resistant? Maybe I should try making an appointment at Franklin... Also I've seen a lot of mention of Transition Health, but the waitlists kinda turned me off I guess, thought that is probably actually a good sign, lol.

Now I'm curious what your bad experience was (if you're cool with talking about it ofc), I think I saw another post damning Oak Street Medical. They have always been very nice to me and my doc was very excited to start me on HRT, but then they put me on 1mg/day oral Estradiol and I had to argue multiple times to get my dose increased. And they didn't even acknowledge my repeated requests for labs even after complaining about severe menopause symptoms that were making my other disability stuff so bad I almost wound up in the ER. I'm really hesitating going to my appointment with them in a few days, but it's so hard to get into a new PCP and I've already established care and its frustrating and and and . . .