[EvaMarie]

Things are progressing nicely thanks, its a slow journey but i can see things happening at least, its funny but im now really glad that i started growing my hair 18 months ago, after a while the excitement i had early on wore off and everything now just feels normal, i cant decide if thats a good or a bad thing, im enjoying the journey anyway, so far i have had 2 laser beard removal sessions with positive results (i have lots of bald patches in my beard), i got to see the nhs gic doctor yesterday (gp referred me to the gic in june last year so its been a slow process!), she was a lovely lady and had no problem supporting the first opinion and diagnosing me with gd, she is now writing to my gp to ask them to prescribe a decapeptyl SR 11.25mg injection (lasts 3 months) which should have the same affect that having an orchiectomy would for my testosterone levels and 6mg of estradiol hemihydrate to go with it which is the dose and formulation im taking now, i will continue my finasteride moving on to dutasteride and she is ok with this, she is also referring me for laser beard removal and speech therapy (nhs funded), in about 3 weeks or so i should have a prescription in my hand, it will also be nice not paying out of pocket for all the medications, here its an £8.05 prescription charge per type of item, the decapeptyl injection costs around £220 a shot so it would soon add up otherwise if i had to pay for it

Hey congrats on getting in with your NHS Ive read many sad tales about it and from what Ive heard its indeed a long process with them... I do like the idea of getting the shots they give to shut down T, seems to me the best way to go about things Im thinking about asking my doc if we can try that and drop spiro but it does seem to work OK for me with few bad effects and I gotta doubt my insurance would pay for that