Allow me to respond to the question about synthetics and mood as a way of delurking and hopefully contributing to a body of knowledge I've really valued over the last three months.
The combination of low-dose transdermal estrodiol (25mcg) and lowishdose PM (2000mg) has transformed my emotional being in a radical, unexpected and throughly satisfying way. My experience of life is much more rounded and balanced. Anger and frustration flair up from time to time but not as an every other day experience.
Let me offer this: I did not consider myself depressed before I started this regime but in comparison to how I feel NOW, I might have describe my pre-hormone experience as depressed.
I've been an out and proud gender radical for a long time. I identify as queer. If feeling great because of hormones means I have a trans brain then sweet, I'm game. I didn't feel any gender dysphoria before taking hormones. My desire for breasts, or some anatomy I could call breasts did lead me to try hormones and after six weeks very little, if anything, about my physical body has changed--this is likely due to a reluctance on my part to add androgens.
My doctor guesses that I will have six months or so of this emotional satisfaction before all the receptors adjust and change.
Bon voyage to all your journeys.
The combination of low-dose transdermal estrodiol (25mcg) and lowishdose PM (2000mg) has transformed my emotional being in a radical, unexpected and throughly satisfying way. My experience of life is much more rounded and balanced. Anger and frustration flair up from time to time but not as an every other day experience.
Let me offer this: I did not consider myself depressed before I started this regime but in comparison to how I feel NOW, I might have describe my pre-hormone experience as depressed.
I've been an out and proud gender radical for a long time. I identify as queer. If feeling great because of hormones means I have a trans brain then sweet, I'm game. I didn't feel any gender dysphoria before taking hormones. My desire for breasts, or some anatomy I could call breasts did lead me to try hormones and after six weeks very little, if anything, about my physical body has changed--this is likely due to a reluctance on my part to add androgens.
My doctor guesses that I will have six months or so of this emotional satisfaction before all the receptors adjust and change.
Bon voyage to all your journeys.