Pandora's box was opened the moment I started taking herbs. It has just lead from one thing to another. I don't mind so much, but the biggest thing right now keeping me from going down the path of HRT is my family. My spouse is still not happy with the few external changes she is seeing, and of course definitely not happy about my choice of undergarments. My parents I do not believe would understand. I would probably be disowned and called all sorts of not so nice names. Work wold be a mixed bag, I am not too worried about work, so it is mostly a struggle with being accepted by my family that prevents me from considering HRT as a viable solution for myself. But the more I think about it, the more i realize, that probably, more than likely, that will be the next step. Just not sure if and when that will occur.

My main reason is I just dislike doctors, and the smugness pretty much all of them have. I basically only go to the doctor if I think I might have broke a bone or something else really serious. I don't like the idea of having to talk to a therapist much either.

I also don't think I want or need full transition, if I did I'd just suck it up and go to the required doctors. I kind of like the idea having a body like TS porn stars, having breasts, a nice hairless body, and still being fully functional like a male down there.

+1 for that, I know what I want and where I'm going, don't need the opinion of psycho-the-rapist.
But do need the support of MD to help me get there safely.

How many of us here really want to be on hrt ?

What stops you ?

After all hrt now is pretty safe and available so what are the real reasons that stop us.

I see HRT as being synonymous with transitioning. Since I have no plans to transition, I see no reason to utilize HRT.

For me, I was still dealing with the whole TG thing when I started PM. I didn't want to go and speak to a doctor about it. I hadn't seen a doctor in something like 20 years. And it would kinda make it feel like a one way street and the doc would decide my journey for me. Taking herbals was completely under my control and I could quit whenever I wanted (honest, guv!). After a year of PM it proved to me that this is the direction I wanted to go in, and voilà. Tasty tasty HRT (except the Spiro, that tastes like crap).

I have no fear..........it was time to align my current genders. Adding HrT isn't a mortal sin, the meds help deal with who you are, whatever gender you are. Transition doesn't have to be all about femininity

fem·i·nin·i·ty
[ˌfeməˈninədē]
NOUN
the quality of being female; womanliness:
"she celebrates her femininity by wearing makeup and high heels"

Nobody, and I mean no one, should ever feel they have to leave this community because of transition (aka jumping the fence) its not crime, nor do you get banished. Celebrate the bravery of the individual, they'll need all the support they can get.

For me, I was still dealing with the whole TG thing when I started PM. I didn't want to go and speak to a doctor about it. I hadn't seen a doctor in something like 20 years. And it would kinda make it feel like a one way street and the doc would decide my journey for me. Taking herbals was completely under my control and I could quit whenever I wanted (honest, guv!). After a year of PM it proved to me that this is the direction I wanted to go in, and voilà. Tasty tasty HRT (except the Spiro, that tastes like crap).

I am on a very weak form of HRT.. My doctor didn't like my blood pressure going up real high ( 185/90 ) and then crashing to more normal levels. ( 145/75 ). That's when she put me on Spiro after doing a blood workup. I have long hair because of my cross dressing but I have a definite "Widow's Peak". I asked her about Finn to help with that. Her only concern at the time was that with both combined my gynecomastia would definitely be going stronger.

I think after having gyne, and then them two drugs added it really let my breast grow pretty good. So, I guess in a way, I sort backed into HRT, just no prescribe Estrogen's or Progesterone's. At least not yet.

( Big Wink)

I agree 1000% with Lotus. Even those of us who may or may not go to the other side of the coin shouldn't feel out of place here...

By the very nature of their Fails and Triumphs they can pass on to the rest of us their thoughts and warnings. Sort of like give us a roadmap of "Hell Yes's" and "Hell No's". The only time I get in a mood, is because someone gets "Preachy" or tries to talk to someone out or into something against their thoughts.... That's when I get going on a Warpath.

I would love the idea of hrt but with flame on this one

Especially after reading about a dr who has

3500 trans patients on hrt

None stopped yet

Scary

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Julie

I'm a little confused by the idea that herbal and synthetic approach differ to any great extent. The requirements to trigger female traits including breast development are well documented, herbal and synthetic products need to do the same thing to a male body to achieve the same results. There in no magic herb unknown to medicine that developes breast tissue alone, hence the long lists of herbs that some list as daily consumption in the hope to reduce testosterone and increase estrogen. This is exactly the results achieved by synthetic products. Most if not all of these herbs are of unknown origin, content or strength.
I'm not trying to influence others or hint that the path I have taken is the right one, just wanted to make the point that whatever we pop in our mouths or rub on our skin to alter our bodies can be life changing in so many ways.