[bryony]

btw byrony, how long have you been on pm if you don't mind my asking?

Don't mind at all - started on 14 Sep 11
I was a bit silly... I took 2 the first day, 4 the 2nd day and 6 on the 3rd day for the next 3 weeks until kidney pains scared me into cold turkey for a week, til 11 Oct during which I got a major growth spurt.

I went back in ones and twos until 24 Oct - up to 4 a day.
Pains again, so I went off for a few days. Early November, I got to 6 a day by not taking more than 1 every 3 hours. I figured that it took time to be processed by my liver, and taking too many at once was causing the kidney pain.

It was at this point that my dysphoria turned off, and I realised that I no longer needed any of the typical TS "stuff" while I was taking it.

Later on in November for reasons you can dig into, I started a regime of monthly cold turkey, to avoid "brain reprogramming", and to keep my male bits working.

In December I started on Maca and Butea Superba, which seemed to remove the need for cold turkey to maintain functionality, and I'd stopped worrying about the brain reprogramming.

And that's pretty much what I was taking until last Monday (today is Saturday) when something weird happened.

I'm still on cold turkey with no ill effects!

You can read the rest here down to where Pansy-Mae hijacked it!

B.