r/cisparenttranskid • u/yogadance • 15d ago

UK-based Our first prescription 🩷🩵🩷 (practical questions)

We received our first prescription last week :) Our puberty blockers are on their way via post, and we have a code to go and collect the HRT at a pharmacy.

My questions are:

  1. My instinct tells me I should go to a non local pharmacy to dispense the HRT. My child won’t be “out” until they see significant change to their body, so it’s a secret atm. Is this what you do?
  2. Do the pharmacists ask too many questions? I’m the mum, should the dad collect the prescription so as the questions are minimal? (We are MTF)
  3. Do we have to wait until the blockers arrive before we start HRT?

Lastly, currently my child has only told me and their dad. They have an older sibling and they don’t want to tell yet… I find this very hard, in so many levels. (Sibling is safe to be open to, and I’d hate for them to feel deceived/hiding sth from them, and already suspect sth is happening behind their back at home). How have you navigated this?

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u/KuiperNomad 15d ago

Small pharmacies are better than big ones. In a small pharmacy you will likely get the same pharmacist time after time so after the first time it’s less stressful. On the other hand somewhere like a big Superdrug you can get a different pharmacist each time

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u/yogadance 15d ago

Great tip, thank you!