I went to Brighton for the weekend and it’s so queer there you just don’t stand out at all as a visibly trans person. Not a single dirty look or unfriendly interaction.
I did get fully checked out by a beautiful femme lesbian who blushed so hard when I caught her eye and smiled at her. Gonna ride high on that for a while.
Ouch. Sorry to hear that, wishing you a quick recovery.
You’re going to have days where you feel like shit and days where you feel great. Glad you’re here! Here’s to more great days.
Girl I was so worried about you when you made your first post when you seemed so dysphoric but I love hearing about you feeling yourself. You’re so beautiful I really hope you keep hold of that feeling. Stay winning! X
Ahhh shadow euphoria (and her cousin window euphoria) are amazing feelings.
Trans girls never beating the bottom allegations
I got a blood test back this week and after 6 weeks on hormones I have already hit normal cis woman range for E2 and T. Very encouraging.
Stay safe in the smoke x
I should have transitioned years ago 😭
I might be able to get you an invite to an unofficial imago discord server so you can get a vibe check on the community. Let me know if that is something you’d like, otherwise good luck and see you in there eventually I hope.
GGP was apparently using AI to analyse their blood tests and I think they said they couldn’t talk to humans at all. From what I hear GGP is basically an expensive AI driven prescription farm with no humans to talk to (this is second hand info though so I’m no authority).
Cyro = androcur yes
Hope these meds treat you much better. Good luck Erin.
I’m with imago. I could answer any questions you have about it. Feel free to DM or just write questions here. I can’t speak to GGP except that I know a lot of folks on imago went there after leaving GGP unsatisfied.
Imago have amazing staff, their community is really nice. I got a welcome call with a really nice person and then a doctor call for 45 mins with a really nice doctor who walked me through my options and we came up with a preferred intake method together. I have to provide my own blood tests at 0, 3, 6 and 12 months, and then I think it’s annual after that so that’s a cost you need to factor in. The doctor will monitor my blood results and adjust my treatment if I want it adjusted or my levels are not where I want them to be. I can also email support to get in touch with my doctor at any time. Overall I’m really happy I went with them but that’s not to say there aren’t some issues with the service sometimes.
I’m 38 and the doc put me on E gel and cypro. The dose was sensible and I hit cis woman levels for E and T at 6 weeks which I’m really happy with. The plan I discussed with my doctor was to see if my levels are stable after 6 months and then stop the cypro, up the E dose and maybe add in progesterone.
I receive from them an e-prescription for 3 months worth of meds and in the same email I get a link to an online pharmacy that dispensed the meds to me. You could also take this prescription to a high street pharmacy but be warned, some UK pharmacies have explicitly transphobic policies in place and will refuse to fill your script. It might involve asking a few places in person to find out of they would take the prescription. That’s if you really don’t want to use the online service for whatever reason (e.g. If you have no safe address to have the meds posted to).
[Edit: Re imago being a us company: we were all very upset when this happened. It was registered in Malta up until a few months ago when they reincorporated in delaware (for tax reasons it seems). This makes them technically a us company but they operate in the EEA therefore they are subject to GDPR and because it’s medical data that’s extra protected under GDPR. I would understand why you’d be sketched out by that that, from my position it hasn’t really altered my care in any way]
Omg so beautiful, the photo and the subject.
You’re super pretty, it’s nice to see a slightly happier post after the last one. I hope you’re feeling okay.
Well thanks for your pioneering work and for sharing your findings. It’s genuinely fascinating.
Came here to say that. Particularly interested in the body swapping part for totally cisgender reasons.